What's your real agenda, Thorin_II? You seem to know so much about Roatan diving while simultaneously pretending to not know anything about it? Your "post" reads more like sock puppetry than a legitimate "first post", so you shouldn't be surprised that your motives are called into question.
you want to know my adgenda? fine. I'm 24, just graduated from engineering, just spent the last 4 years of my life in the basement of a building that gives people asbestosis. I'm 50 grand in debt and want to reward myself with the best *******ing cruise i can possibly have. Found myself a cheap cruise with carnival, bunch of friends who would go to, one who already dives. I thought to myself, hey, for 400$ I can get certified, another 300$ in gear, and now I'm really getting the most out of my cruise. But I'm no idiot. I don't drop thousands of dollars on a cruise and nearly a thousand dollars on scuba to not research the hell out of my chosen scuba destination. I'm not a fool. I find out that Roatan has wrecks, walls, sharks, dolphins, and even whale sharks if youre THAT lucky. But theres something liek 50 dive sits just in a 7 mile stretch of shore and probably over 100 on the whole damned island. So I thought I'd inlist some help from some knowledeable people once i had really gotten overwhelmed.
The shark dive was high on my list. I'm sorry to tell you but theres no where on the internet that says "the only way you're seeing sharks on Roatan is through ________". We've contacted a couple operators that have said "we don't offer it. There are others that do. we can arrange it through them". so after about 5 hours of web surfing I stuble onto this site, and specificly this thread and Im glad I did because now at least I know that there have been alegations against this guy which was kinda fitting into the picture I had about this specific dive. I kept asking myself how could only one operator be going to this one site that everyone wants to go to? Why doesn't anyone answer your questions regarding this operator.. then it became clear that this guys is clearly an imigrant from Italy, with a business partner who used to be a lawyer, and they have set up their turf and will defend it to the death.
Now I admit that when i was sifting through this thread for the final verdict on the matter, that I was seeing tensions from posts and I didn't know why.. much of it was going over my head. It seems that many of you are hurt that this guy is being accused of these things and thats fine.. maybe you did the dive, met the guy, went for beers after, would dive with him again. Fine. But don't question my motives.. I'm not here to falsely accuse some one I've never met of having tried to kill other people I've never met. I'm trying to find out if there's any proof to settle this case one way or the other.
I'm broke, trying to spend what little money I have left on a great cruise, and I'm trying to establish if I'm about to give my money to a guy who would actually kill to maintain his monopoly over this dive. I kind of have moral issues with a guy like that, I have moral issues with me being his customer, and I'm here to get advice on Roatan so that I can make the most of what little money I have.
Maybe we got off on the wrong foot. Hi, I'm Chris, an electrical engineer from Canada. Just got into scuba, havent even finished my certification yet, and I'm planning a 7 hour stop in Roatan. You seem knowlegdeable regarding Roatan,.. care to give me any advice of what operators will be able to take me to one or preferably two of the best dive sites the island has to offer during that short 7 hour period? we're arriving at 11am local, which seems to be a problem since most operators only do two morning dives and one in the afternoon. Do you know of an operator who could maybe start their day off a little later for some cruise ship customers?
Maybe you could introduce yourself and tell me why you think that some one questioning the conclusion of alledged attempted murder charges has to have an adgenda to do so?
