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Scuba Forum / General / October 2003Cozumel: Equalizers vs. Dive Paradise
Comment please? We are beginners, newly OW certified. Our dive shop really recommends DP; otoh, we had a great experience last year with the folks at Equalizers on a private custom snorkel trip**. Every person we met at the Equalizers shop just raved about using them for years. We will be on the island for about 8 days in May '04. thanks Penny S ** I do understand that a snorkel trip has no correlation to diving, however, they treated us great and Sandra the DM went out of her way to make sure we had a great day drift snokeling away from the cattle boats. "Penny S" <pennysinvalid@cetinvalid.com> entertained us with: :Comment please? We are beginners, newly OW certified. Our dive shop really :recommends DP; otoh, we had a great experience last year with the folks at :Equalizers on a private custom snorkel trip**. Every person we met at the :Equalizers shop just raved about using them for years. We will be on the :island for about 8 days in May '04. Welcome to rec.scuba,..., Penny. Has anyone told you to look up the answer on google yet? It probably doesn't matter what shop you pick, you will have a good time with either. Things you may want to consider before deciding are: - proximity of boat launch from your hotel. - what time do they leave? Dan Bracuk As Big Ben said to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, I've got the time if you've got the inclination. The Best of Rec.Scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/ > It probably doesn't matter what shop you pick, you will have a good time with > either. Things you may want to consider before deciding are: > - proximity of boat launch from your hotel. > - what time do they leave? And, unless you're getting some sort of package deal on multiple dives, there's no reason why you can't try them both during the first couple days and then make your decision for the remainder of your trip. Used Equalizers for 10 days 2 yrs ago. The old DM was great but I heard that the son is the DM now and not very good (secondhand info I never dove with him). The boat was fair at best (no ice to cool the drinking water) 1/3 of the tanks had o-rings leaks where the tank neck and the valve meet (the tanks were marked for repair every day but were returned refilled and unrepaired. They over charged my credit card by about 8% (didn't find it till I got home) and refused to adjust the bill even when I sent them the official exchange rate of the day that showed it was not what they claimed it to have been ATG. > Comment please? We are beginners, newly OW certified. Our dive shop really > recommends DP; otoh, we had a great experience last year with the folks at [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > however, they treated us great and Sandra the DM went out of her way to make > sure we had a great day drift snokeling away from the cattle boats. > Used Equalizers for 10 days 2 yrs ago. The old DM was great but I heard that > the son is the DM now and not very good (secondhand info I never dove with > him). Henry (Darwin's son) is much better now. I dove with him in May 2001, and he was not very communicative, was very hung over a couple of times, and totally lost the reef on our night dive. In 2002, he wasn't working there any more; the word I got was that Darwin had had to fire him due to negative feedback from his customers (myself included). This past May, he was back (and I was apprehensive), but he was very professional and jovial, knew the reefs very well, and put us right where we wanted to go without fail. We had no probs with him at all. He's pretty young, and I guess he needed seasoning. As of May, Henry was Darwin's "B" DM; his "A" guy, Aristeo, is one of the best DM's I have ever dove (dived? diven?) with. Darwin himself doesn't go out as DM much if at all any more. Gordon in Austin  SignaturePOPI Classification [ ]General Business Information [x]Motorola Internal Use [ ]Motorola Confidential Proprietary I spend either three or four days about every other month down there diving. I have tried most all of them and it has been my experience that the Blue Angel shop at the Carib Blu works best for me. Ask for Ramon he has over 4000 dives down there and knows exactly what he is doing. > Comment please? We are beginners, newly OW certified. Our dive shop really > recommends DP; otoh, we had a great experience last year with the folks at [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > however, they treated us great and Sandra the DM went out of her way to make > sure we had a great day drift snokeling away from the cattle boats. > Comment please? We are beginners, newly OW certified. Our dive shop really > recommends DP; otoh, we had a great experience last year with the folks at > Equalizers on a private custom snorkel trip**. Every person we met at the > Equalizers shop just raved about using them for years. We will be on the > island for about 8 days in May '04. I will be there for 10-12 days in May, as well, and diving with Darwin, too. Maybe we will share a boat with you. Gordon in Austin SignaturePOPI Classification [ ]General Business Information [x]Motorola Internal Use [ ]Motorola Confidential Proprietary I'm leaving tomorrow for Cozumel and diving with Dive Paradise, for a week, as part of a dive package I'll give you an update when I get back.
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