Scuba X Travel & SXT Adventures

11/09/2026

Join us for Berry's Holiday Party on December 5th from 5 PM to 10 PM! Bring a side dish and your ugliest sweater to celebrate with the SSA Dive Pros. Don't forget to RSVP to enjoy a night filled with fun, food, and community spirit. Plus, veterans get 40% off on Veterans Day! Let's make this holiday season one of generosity and joy.

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11/04/2026

Did you know concierge comes with every trip we plan? Not an upgrade. Not a tier. Every trip. 🧳

Passports checked against your dates, allergies sent ahead, flights watched, gear sized. You text Jeff, Keith or me, and we handle it.

Translation: you get to be the excited one.

Details in the comments.

What is the first thing you would hand off? 👇

11/03/2026

Tuesday Trip Tale: Tanzania, the highlight reel 🐒🐘🦁

Gombe gave us chimpanzees close enough to make eye contact, and one who very clearly had opinions about us. Tarangire gave us this elephant in the last light of the day. Ngorongoro gave us zebras that did not care about us at all. The Serengeti gave us a lion so asleep I think we could have tucked him in.

Translation: the cameras did not stop from Arusha to Gombe.

Every one of these is a phone shot. No long lens, no hide. Just good guides who know where to stop (and when to turn the engine off).

By the time you read this I am on a boat in the Sea of Cortez, so yes, chimps to sea lions in two weeks. No regrets.

Want to come next time? Comment TANZANIA and we will message you our February 2028 trip, or find the link in the comments. 👇

11/02/2026

Most of the trips we plan are not on our calendar. 🗺️

The calendar is our small-group departures. Everything else is a trip someone dreamed up and handed to us, like:
- Three weeks in Tuscany (2024)
- Iceland (2024)
- The French Riviera plus the Paris Games (2024)
- A Norway coastal voyage up to the Arctic (2023)
- Buenos Aires and a Patagonian fjords expedition (2025)
- Oaxaca for the food and culture (2025)
- Copenhagen at Christmas (2025)
- A Paso Robles w**e weekend (2023)
- A milestone-birthday dive charter in the Solomon Islands (2025)

Yes, that list goes from the Arctic to a w**e tasting. We contain multitudes. 🍷❄️

How it works:
1. You tell us where, when, and what kind of trip you want.
2. We come back with a handful of itineraries built around your style, timeline and budget. No generic packages.
3. We handle the logistics, the bookings, and support while you are out there.

Translation: you do the dreaming, we do the spreadsheets (I love a good spreadsheet, it is a problem).

Start here, link in the comments.

So... if we planned one trip for you next year, where would it be? ✈️

10/30/2026

PLEASE READ THIS IF YOU ARE ON THE BOAT THIS SUNDAY
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10/30/2026

Money abroad. The unglamorous tip that saves trips. 💳

- Tell your bank and card issuer you are traveling before you go.
- Carry two cards from different networks (say, a Visa and a Mastercard) and keep them in different places.
- Get a little local cash for tips and taxis.
- Skip the airport exchange counter if you can. The rates there are usually the worst you will see all trip.
- Have both. A lot of places are card-only now, and some are still cash-only.

Translation: if one card gets frozen at a cafe in a country where you do not speak the language, you still get your coffee. ☕

I say this as someone who would very much like you to spend your trip eating gelato, not on hold with your bank. 😅

Details in the comments.

Card person or cash person? 💵

10/29/2026

Roatán is officially on the calendar!!! 🌴

February 26 to March 4, 2028. Seven nights in an overwater cabana, with the reef at the bottom of the stairs. Translation: you can roll out of bed and into the Caribbean (coffee first, I have rules).

What's in it:
- Two boat trips a day, up to four dives on diving days
- Unlimited shore diving on the house reef, night dives included
- Unlimited Nitrox for Nitrox-certified divers (an SXT exclusive)
- Two group excursions: a full-day outer island reef dive and a land-based eco tour
- Meals from arrival dinner through departure breakfast
- Transfers, a trip host, and concierge from Jeff, Keith and me

$4,450 per person, double occupancy. $500 holds your spot and we do interest-free payment plans.

Book by November 30 and save $100 per person. Overwater cabanas are limited, so... no pressure, of course. But also a little pressure. 😌

Details in the comments. Who is coming? 👇

10/29/2026

Baby giant manta rays hang out in shallow coastal waters, and the grown-ups go on epic road trips. 🌊

Researchers with Mantas Costa Rica (lead author Jeffry Madrigal-Mesén) tracked giant mantas at five sites in Central America between 2018 and 2025: 59 rays with acoustic tags and 12 with satellite tags. The young ones, about 10 feet wide or less, stayed in shallow nearshore refuges. Nine adults made long migrations along the continental shelf edge. One regular, nicknamed Mickey Mouse (love him), was detected 462 times at one cleaning station in 2020. Published this month in Frontiers in Fish Science.

Their caveat: it's a small sample from five sites. Their ask: protected areas alone aren't enough, because adults lose legal protection once they swim out of a reserve. 😌

Keith, Jeff and I are heading to Costa Rica's Cocos Island in July 2027, so we are reading everything we can find about big rays and the people who follow them. 🦈

Full article in the comments.

Do you have a manta moment that's still living rent free in your head?

10/29/2026

We leave TOMORROW for the Sea of Cortez!!! 🌊

October 30 to November 6, and I am, as they say, not okay (in the best way).

The thing I am most excited about? The sea lion pups at San Francisquito and Sea Lion Point. Curious, goofy, zero sense of personal space... basically underwater golden retrievers. 🦭

(That little somersaulter is an illustration. The real pups are coming to my stories.)

I am also hoping hard for the mobula night dive and the hike ashore on Espiritu Santo.

I will post from the M/V Valentina wherever signal allows. It is a boat, so no promises, but I will try.

So tell me, what do you want to see? Sea lions, the boat, the food, my hair after day three? Drop it below 👇

And if you want Sea of Cortez 2027 on your calendar, message us. 🤿

Details in the comments.

10/28/2026

Join us tonight at 6 PM PST for an exciting recap of our updated Nitrox program! This session is perfect for divers seeking to enhance their skills and extend their underwater adventures. Don't miss the chance to learn about our Decompression Diving Program and upcoming trips, including a nearly all-inclusive adventure in Roatan, Honduras! Dive into the details.

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