We are taking a 10 day Alaska cruise next month, and I am looking for
info on dive shops and dive charters in Juneau or Ketchikan.  Has
Channel Dive Center in Juneau gone out of business?  Their web site
appears to be defunct.  Any suggestions/recommendations on dive shops I
should contact for more info?  I have never been diving up there, and
want to make sure it is even feasable to do scuba diving during an
Alaska cruise before I lug 100+ pounds of dive gear, camera, housing,
and batteries on this trip.  Judging from the few dive shop listings on
the internet, there is at least a small diving community up there, but
whether they are set up to cater to cruise ship passengers or not is
the $64,000 question.  Most Alaska cruise ship passengers are old
enough that they would consider a Mike Nelson style double-hose
regulator to be "new-fangled" ;), so I don't imagine very many of my
fellow passengers will be rushing off the ship, "C" card and gear bag
in hand, to book a two-tank boat dive.  Would my 6.5mil wetsuit be
sufficient, or are we talking drysuit diving only in SE Alaska?  I have
a few dozen dives on the California coast, 49F~52F degrees being the
coldest water I have been in (other than one or two dives in Lake Tahoe
where it got down to about 42F at 90' - now that was COLD!!). I don't
own a drysuit and don't want to invest that much money, since my most
of my diving has been in Cozumel the last 10 years.

Thanks!