点评:If you read my reviews, you know I always try to say something nice even if an experience was less than stellar. So here is the nice. The owner (I presume) didn't charge us for this dreadful experience. Arrangements for the dive before-hand were well done.
Now the review. We were are party of two. We had arranged to use their gear (they don't offer computers) so we brought, dive skins, and MSF. From the beginning of the dive, the dive master assigned to us showed no interest in us. My husband is fluent in French so there should have be no miscommunicate. They do NOT offer pickup which is $40 US each way in taxi so add that to your calculations.
We were assigned our gear, rudimentary BCs and regs. The DM complained about our asking to connect our computers (we brought the hoses which is a 30 second job) and he told us we didn't need them. But wait - this dive shop requests c-cards or logs (including electronic). Well a lot of us use our computers to do those logs now (I gave up a paper logs few hundred dives ago) that they asked for. And would any diver these days want to be doing multi- day multi-dives without your computer when traveling if you have a choice for their own use?
The DM was clearly impatient with me setting up the dive camera (2 minutes) which has to be done in the dry and it was a new setup which I freely admitted. It ended up I was pressured to finish it on the boat which I wanted to do at the dive table in the dry.
On the ride out, there was no dive briefing other than it would be around 60 feet. Jeesh, how about a little info on the site, coral, fish, dropoff, current, wind? What was the dive plan, direction, depth, duration? I can't remember a dive I have been on or lead that I have not or was not provided a briefing, even if short.
So we got geared up and I already had my doubts. Their equipment is in rough shape. They only offer weight belts which I haven't used in 20 years - which I told the DM. I commented that once my computer was on that I wanted to check my air and the response was he already did it and said is was 3000, but when I checked it was 2873, and I wanted to test the reg which he said was ok but was very heaving breathing. Not a big deal but unprofessional and against every diver knowing their air and equipment starting out, and that the tank was open when you are going in the water. In diving, you first level of protection is yourself. Good god thanks I wasn't doing Nitrox.
So Ok, we have our gear on and he sends me over, the belt is about to fall off my butt and was too heavy to adjust by myself at the surface to get it from falling off. I get to the the ladder, hook my feet, lay back and wait, np. DM comes, yanks it tight, messes up the BC, all still ok on my part as I indicated to him this is stuff I can fix.
There is very little current or wind on this dive that I knew of - he never told us. The DM says to proceed to the bow of the boat (fine), and then to go down the line. Well the line is nasty to a bare hand and fins knocking from above or below. I had told him my protocol is to descend in the vicinity of the line but away from it where I can control buoyancy as well as clearing ears and keep away from other divers. I had also told him that when I reached bottom I would find a spot to kneel and adjust the BC which was very ill- fitting, but I didn't have a problem I could shake it out, get things settled in the right places, tighten straps accordingly, etc. and then get my buoyancy. Normal getting my buoyancy with my equipment is an almost instantaneous process on the way down.
When clearing my ears, I normally can just wiggle my jaw a bit and maybe pinch my nose occasionally. This dive was a bit unusual for us was that we both experienced some more specific ear-clearing issues going down. In my case, as I couldn't puff the inflater button, so I was fining up, clearing, sinking, kicking up, clearing, sinking. Again, no big deal, part of the drill. I tried the inflater once but with the extreme finger strength and pressure required on the button, once I got it finally was depressed I went up like a rocket, which I controlled as quickly as possible by dumping the excess air and got back to fine and continued and had to do the ear clearing once more. I was a bit p-offed that it could not be done the regular way, but hey ok we are in a another place so things can be different. The inflater valve was basically totally stuck and had not been serviced in a long while. If you could a apply a very large amount of force it would work and seemed to be case with my dive partner as well (not something I would tolerate in my equipment at home or call safe or accept at a location we would we choice to be diving with).
So my ears get cleared and I go back to my plan to go to a sandy patch on the bottom to get the BC adjusted correctly (normally with gear that works I would have done it on my way down). I settle in and am doing fine and getting the weight distributed correctly (it was way off balance from the DM tugging the belt up an around and shifting the whole BC), straps tight and ready to go. And my husband has also finally made it down from the ear clearing and stuck valve.
The DM comes down and motions violently UP. I'm like ? More UPUPUP! he grabs me just as I think we're are going to start our dives and forces me up and then my husband. WTF? I had to indicate to him to back off. physically. This was not pleasant and I'm really getting pissed. We are 10 minutes into the dive, we are cool, I'm starting to look for fish (because we weren't given a direction for the dive), and the DM ins now making us ascend With frantic gestures like someone is dying. I think he better job is in theater.
We get to the surface and I say what is the issue? He says you don't know how to dive, you were bouncing up and down with no buoyancy (gee how about the crappy equipment inflator that didn't work when we were clearing our ears???, we were trying to make their equipment work so that we could have a dive, we were there, we were problem solving). He also starts yelling you wouldn't let me help you. My response was that when you did (and aggressively), you interfered because you had not listened that I had indicated exactly what my initial dive plan as we started the actual dive (atm he had not never replied because he was listening). I am an experienced diver and we are all (if properly taught) to try solve our issues first before asking for buddy or DM help. It makes us better divers. And his interventions were rude. My husbands dive experience was more of the same. Crappy gear, overbearing influence. He endorse this entire post.
Oh did I mention this whole thing once off the boat took place in a space of 10 minutes max? The DM had no desire to make the dive successful.
Unless you want not to be told were you are going, what your dive plan is, and if you would like to be yelled at, dictated to, had someone totally ruin your dive - I would not book this dive operator. When we spoke to some other folks arriving at the same time, they had wonderful dives with operators that picked them up and had nice functional equipment with out all of this BS.
I went by the Trip Advisor Reviews and should have gone the the scuba boards.
翻译:如果你读过我的评论,你就会知道我总是试图说一些好话,即使体验不太好。所以这就是好处。店主(我猜)并没有因为这次可怕的经历向我们收费。潜水之前的安排都做得很好。
现在审查。我们是两个人的聚会。我们已经安排使用他们的装备(他们不提供电脑),所以我们带了潜水衣和无国界医生。从潜水一开始,分配给我们的潜水教练就对我们没有表现出任何兴趣。我丈夫的法语很流利,所以应该不会有沟通不畅的情况。他们不提供出租车接送服务,单程 40 美元,因此请将其添加到您的计算中。
我们被分配了装备、基本的BC和规则。 DM 抱怨我们要求连接电脑(我们带来了软管,这是 30 秒的工作),他告诉我们不需要它们。但是等等 - 这家潜水店要求提供 C 卡或日志(包括电子日志)。好吧,我们很多人现在都使用计算机来记录他们要求的日志(我在几百次潜水前放弃了纸质日志)。如果您可以选择自己使用的话,现在的潜水员是否愿意在旅行时不使用电脑进行多日多次潜水?
DM 显然对我设置潜水相机(2 分钟)不耐烦,因为这必须在干燥的情况下完成,而且我坦率地承认这是一个新设置。最后我被迫在船上完成它,我想在干燥的潜水台上完成它。
出发时,除了大约 60 英尺的深度外,没有任何潜水简报。天哪,能不能提供一些有关该网站的信息,珊瑚、鱼、落差、水流、风?潜水计划、方向、深度、持续时间是什么?我不记得我参加过或领导过的哪一次潜水没有或没有得到过简报,即使很短。
所以我们做好了准备,我已经有了疑问。他们的设备简陋。他们只提供我已经 20 年没有使用过的举重带了——我告诉了 DM。我评论说,一旦我的电脑打开,我想检查我的空气,得到的答复是他已经这样做了,并说是 3000,但当我检查时,它是 2873,我想测试他说没问题的 reg,但是呼吸很急促。没什么大不了的,但不专业,而且每个潜水员都知道他们的空气和设备一开始就知道,而且当你进入水中时,水箱是打开的。在潜水中,您的第一级保护是您自己。天哪,感谢我没有使用高氧。
好吧,我们穿上装备,他把我送过去,腰带快要从我屁股上掉下来了,而且太重了,我无法在水面上自行调整以防止它掉落。我走到梯子旁,勾住脚,躺下来等待,np。 DM 来了,把它拉紧,弄乱了 BC,对我来说一切都还好,因为我向他表明这是我可以修复的东西。
据我所知,这次潜水时几乎没有水流或风——他从来没有告诉过我们。 DM 说先到船头(很好),然后沿着线走。好吧,对于空手和鳍从上方或下方敲击来说,这条线很讨厌。我告诉他我的方案是在绳索附近下降,但远离绳索,在那里我可以控制浮力以及清理耳朵并远离其他潜水员。我还告诉他,当我到达底部时,我会找个地方跪下并调整BC,这是非常不合适的,但我没有问题,我可以摆脱它,把事情解决在正确的地方,相应地收紧带子等,然后得到我的浮力。正常情况下,在下降过程中,用我的设备获得浮力几乎是瞬时的过程。
清理耳朵时,我通常可以稍微摆动一下下巴,偶尔捏一下鼻子。这次潜水对我们来说有点不寻常,因为我们都经历了一些更具体的耳朵清理问题。就我而言,由于我无法按下充气按钮,所以我不断地向上、清理、下沉、踢起、清理、下沉。再说一次,没什么大不了的,只是演习的一部分。我尝试过一次充气机,但由于手指的力量和按钮上所需的压力很大,一旦我终于按下按钮,我就像火箭一样上升,我通过倾倒多余的空气尽快控制它,然后恢复正常。继续,不得不再次清理耳朵。我有点失望,因为它不能以常规方式完成,但是嘿,好吧,我们在另一个地方,所以事情可能会有所不同。充气阀基本上完全卡住了,并且已经很长时间没有维修了。如果你能施加很大的力,它就会起作用,而且我的潜水伙伴似乎也是如此(我在家里的设备中不能容忍这种情况,或者打电话安全或在我们选择的地点接受)潜水)。
所以我的耳朵变得干净了,我回到了我的计划,去底部的沙地,正确地调整BC(通常情况下,如果装备有效,我会在下降的过程中完成它)。我安顿下来,做得很好,重量分布正确(DM 拉起皮带并移动整个 BC,这让我失去平衡),带子拉紧,准备出发。我丈夫也终于从耳朵清理和阀门卡住的情况中恢复过来。
DM 下来并猛烈地向上移动。我很像 ?更多UPUPUP!正当我以为我们要开始潜水时,他抓住了我,强迫我站起来,然后是我的丈夫。搞什么?我不得不示意他退后。身体上。这并不令人愉快,我真的很生气。我们已经潜水了 10 分钟,我们很酷,我开始寻找鱼(因为我们没有得到潜水方向),DM ins 现在让我们用疯狂的手势上升,就像有人快要死了一样。我认为他更好的工作是在剧院。
我们回到表面,我说问题是什么?他说你不知道如何潜水,你在没有浮力的情况下上下弹跳(哎呀,当我们清理耳朵时,那个蹩脚的设备充气机不起作用???,我们正在尝试制造他们的设备工作以便我们可以潜水,我们在那里,我们正在解决问题)。他还开始大喊你不让我帮你。我的回答是,当你这样做(并且积极地)时,你进行了干扰,因为你没有听我在我们开始实际潜水时准确地表明了我最初的潜水计划(atm他从来没有回复过,因为他在听)。我是一名经验丰富的潜水员,在寻求好友或 DM 帮助之前,我们所有人(如果接受得当)都会先尝试解决我们的问题。它使我们成为更好的潜水员。他的干预很粗鲁。我丈夫的潜水经历也差不多。蹩脚的装备,霸道的影响力。他赞同整篇文章。
哦,我有没有提到这整件事是在下船后最多 10 分钟内发生的? DM 并不希望潜水成功。
除非你不想被告知你要去哪里、你的潜水计划是什么,以及如果你想被大喊大叫、听从指挥、有人完全毁了你的潜水——我不会预订这个潜水运营商。当我们与同时抵达的其他一些人交谈时,他们与接载他们的操作员一起进行了精彩的潜水,并且拥有功能良好的设备,而无需所有这些废话。
我看了猫途鹰评论,应该去水肺潜水板。