Deep Exposure Dive Center: Not A Good Dive Experience

[ggunn]

Do they wet suits for the divers? Maybe that is what the +25% is for.

I prefer to wet my own suit, thank you.

---------- Post added July 11th, 2013 at 04:55 PM ----------

The comparatively higher price, according to the co-owner's e-lips, was for a longer surface interval at a nice location or a beach and lunch. Palancar Pier, if that is the name of a single wooden pier next to no where where we stopped for a long time, sounds about right, and it was not for us a pleasurable place to wallow.

You have mentioned this wooden pier in the middle of nowhere twice now, but I know of no pier matching that description. I know Palancar Pier well, and it is in the middle of nowhere, but it is concrete.

 

[cvchief]

You have mentioned this wooden pier in the middle of nowhere twice now, but I know of no pier matching that description. I know Palancar Pier well, and it is in the middle of nowhere, but it is concrete.

Almost has to be that down there for a lonely pier? Would have to be close to the sites with that slow boat. It does have wood sticks in it....

 

[quietstorm]

Wet suit, torn around the neck, at extra cost.

On the issue of rental equipment, for what it is worth, the fins were sized for a snorkeler or a pool swimmer, totally ineffectual.

The first diving console did not work, thus we had to stop along the way at a pier and wait for a crew member to jump off the boat and get another.

The BCD, with no dump valves, may not have been functioning properly since air seemed to remain trapped inside no matter how I wiggled and turned and pressed: the DM's suggested remedy during the surface interval at the pier (made of wood or concrete or both ) was to disconnect the inflator hose and do the next dive ascent by manual mouth inflation.

I kid you not about any of the above. Just saying...as the saying goes these days.

 

[mediumone]

Wet suit, torn around the neck, at extra cost.

On the issue of rental equipment, for what it is worth, the fins were sized for a snorkeler or a pool swimmer, totally ineffectual.

The first diving console did not work, thus we had to stop along the way at a pier and wait for a crew member to jump off the boat and get another.

The BCD, with no dump valves, may not have been functioning properly since air seemed to remain trapped inside no matter how I wiggled and turned and pressed: the DM's suggested remedy during the surface interval at the pier (made of wood or concrete or both ) was to disconnect the inflator hose and do the next dive ascent by manual mouth inflation.

I kid you not about any of the above. Just saying...as the saying goes these days.

Finally!! Some specifics. Now I can understand why you were ticked off.

 

[cvchief]

Finally!! Some specifics. Now I can understand why you were ticked off.

Well sure, I can see how you couldn't pick anything specific out of his first post..... All he mentioned was group size, slow boat, cramped quarters, high prices, warm sodium water, an inattentive dive master and too many stops on the way to the dive site. Not much to go on.... /sarcasm off

For $127 a 2 tanker, someone needs to swim along side and inflate and deflate me. At that price, I shouldn't have to do it myself. Heck for that price, they should supply someone to push the reg purge valve, so I don't have to breath on my own.....

 

[ggunn]

For $127 a 2 tanker, someone needs to swim along side and inflate and deflate me.

THAT made me LOL. Maybe that IS what you mean...

 

[Liverbird]

Wet suit, torn around the neck, at extra cost.

On the issue of rental equipment, for what it is worth, the fins were sized for a snorkeler or a pool swimmer, totally ineffectual.

The first diving console did not work, thus we had to stop along the way at a pier and wait for a crew member to jump off the boat and get another.

The BCD, with no dump valves, may not have been functioning properly since air seemed to remain trapped inside no matter how I wiggled and turned and pressed: the DM's suggested remedy during the surface interval at the pier (made of wood or concrete or both ) was to disconnect the inflator hose and do the next dive ascent by manual mouth inflation.

I kid you not about any of the above. Just saying...as the saying goes these days.

why would you inflate your bcd to ascend?

 

[Mossman]

why would you inflate your bcd to ascend?

Why would you ask such a question if the OP never indicated they did such?

Sounds horrible, but I can't figure out why anyone would dive anywhere without verifying the creds of whom they're diving with on ScubaBoard, Undercurrent, etc.

 

[ReefHound]

I think this dive op sounds way overpriced but since you knew about the price well in advance and freely agreed to it it's not fair to be whining after the fact about it.

 

[Liverbird]

Why would you ask such a question if the OP never indicated they did such?

Sounds horrible, but I can't figure out why anyone would dive anywhere without verifying the creds of whom they're diving with on ScubaBoard, Undercurrent, etc.

I asked as a less experienced diver than most on this board and it was a general question to all of you as to why a DM would mention inflating the BCD on ascent.