The good: friendly divemasters and boat captain, great boat! (I went out on a Newton 46’), small groups (two groups of 6 that day), enough room for everyone on the boat.
The suggestions for improvement:
1. The rental equipment. Hawaiian waters are warm, but not that warm. They only had 2.5mm shorties for wet suits and bootless fins. Suggest to have 3mm and 5mm wetsuits available, and hood, also for those of us that get cold easily.
2. Dive master knowledge of nitrox limits. Not sure how this happened, but my nitrox tank was set up for the deep dive. The training makes very clear that there are depth limits with nitrox, and the first deep dive was approx to that limit. The guy was even confused when I went to switch the tank. I laughed when he asked me about it because I thought he was being sarcastic but I don’t think that’s the case. Good thing I check everything, that’s just a safety issue.
3. The experience level should be separated between new vs experienced divers. One inexperienced diver in our group sucked up his air quickly and we had to go up after only 15 minutes. Shortest dive ever!
There was decent, not great, scenery. So at $255 for a two tank dive, one nitrox tank, tax and tip it’s not great value compared to the Caribbean.
Одговор домаћина
Jul 2022
Nitrox..... the only mix we use is 32% company wide Max depth 121. which is deeper then any site we go to. we did this to make it idiot proof. Your dive and most dives we go to 100' ( sea tiger 120' at the bow in the sand but 99% time we keep you at the deck 100')
while most of guides are instructors that teach nitrox, we have a few Dive masters that might not know the answer. but they have been educated......