>You must be barking bonkers, stark raving mad even, you gave up the
Channel
and the only place in the world where you can get a decent divers breakfast
for warm water, great visiblity, some actual life (most of in colour) and
cheap dive boats ? Off yer rocker fer sure 

How about St. Kilda for 2004 then? High on my list, still, obviously.
Getting Reef Fish there might be a tad difficult, though.

M

(yes, I know that is not in "the channel")