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I have dived with all three of the above named ops over the past two years. Neco Marine for best all around and most professional service. Ask to be on Fabio's boat. He is in the top three DMs I have dived with, ever.
Cumulatively since Feb 2013, I have been out with Neco on 14 day trips. The most crowded of the trips was when I (foolishly) chose to go to Palau during Chinese New Year-not a good idea. On a few of those days, I saw perhaps 12 divers on the boat and a minimum of 2 DMs. On most of the day trips with them, there were usually 4-6 divers total, with 2 DMs. I cant recall going out with only one DM on the boat except once when there were only 3 divers of pretty high-and comparable-dive experience. One of the nice things about Necos is that they are big enough to run multiple boats when there is too much discordance in the experience of the divers, and/or when there is a group of divers that wants to stay together, and cramming them in with a few other random divers would be possible but unpleasant. Most dive ops (IMHO, and speaking in general terms about dive ops I have known in various dive locales) want to do that and state an intention to do that, but often can't afford that.How many divers per DM usually for Neco Marine?
Thanks.