I make no bones about my distaste for diving in cold water. And I’m fully aware that I drastically reduce my diving options by choosing not to dive in cold water. It’s just that diving in cold water is so…cold. However, in order to travel with
Amos Nachoum, who organizes ridiculously extreme vacations, I might consider making an exception.
One such trip, Ultimate Antarctica, is a 3,300-mile diving “voyage” through the Southern Ocean. For 20 nights in 2006, 21 divers (and 23 non-divers) will travel from Tierra del Fuego, via the Falklands and South Georgia, to the Antarctic Peninsula. For between $15,000 and $19,000 (airfare excluded), the trip features 14 days of 1- and 2-tank diving. Further, vacationers get the chance to explore Antarctic wrecks; visit a 100,000-member King Penguin Colony (boy, I be that smells awful!); slide down glacier-faces Ernest Shackleton (one of my heroes) slid down; and cruise through the Iceberg Graveyard. The water temperature will be an estimated 28-degrees. Just right for those cold water regs.
