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My contact Tim Palmer hasn’t been to Roatan since 2015, but he did work as a PADI course director there. Not a photog. He says to hit up Darren at Turquoise Bay Dive resort. They were doing coral restoration work then.

@Jenny Stock Checking with a source for you.

Aloha and welcome @Jenny Stock I'm sure I’m not going too far on the limb to say the community here is likely giddy to have you here.

Aloha and welcome @FabioGal73 !

Aloha and welcome @skeptic14_uw

I agree with Caolla - ease of use and less fiddling around is The Way. Your photo galleries are wonderful!

Aloha and welcome @Titanite !

@OlDirtyDiver Great stuff!

Aloha and welcome @OlDirtyDiver ! I’m on Oahu but seem to hang out with people who don’t want to work that hard, hence the high pressure cylinders of air. Recently sold my Nikonos stuff, but somewhat reluctantly.

aloha and welcome to waterpixels !

Aloha and welcome @Zach !

I’ve had the RX100II & V, Canon G7x I & II, Olympus OM-D EM-5 and EM-1m2 and currently the Sony A7c. I, too, miss the Olympuses and the 60 macro, and both 8mm fisheyes. Small footprint, great ergonomics. Really fine system. Autofocus was behind the times, but a really good system. I just hope they don’t go out of business. I now have a Sony A6700, but it’s unhoused at the moment. Smaller sensors = smaller lenses.

@Castillo The Sigma 20-200mm looks cool as a travel lens, too.

It sounds like your traveling kit will get larger! I would think that if your underwater photography is only one-quarter to one-half of your photos, you might stick with the one inch compact and use wet lenses. Not ideal for macro, but portable. Trying to house the 14mm will create its own nightmares. But I get the desire to streamline things, but again, it leads to different problems. For travel, if you do go with another kit, I think the Sony kit lens - 28-60mm - with a wet wide lens is a good way to go. You might be able to use the same port with an extension if you want to use the Sony 50 macro or the Zeiss 50 macro. The Zeiss does not extend at close distances, and is much better than the Sony. Also, you might consider the A7cR instead, as you can punch in on the sensor, giving you a 75mm equivalent, and won’t lose as much as you would with the less-detailed A7c sensor.