Kicker1866
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thank you for answers. I would like to delete thread. Is this possible?
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Ok.... so a strange thing happened yesterday. First let me say, I've been diving Cozumel for 7 years, 3 - 4 times per year and always use the same dive Op. Small shop, great owner, safe operation, they know us, blah blah blah...
So we are riding the current on Cedral Pass when my buddy looks down and finds a camera/strob rig. He secures it and we finish the dive. I went up early due to equipment issue.
While on the boat, another boat comes and asks if we found a camera. I told them they were the luckiest divers on the island because we did. So they circle us a few minutes until my friend and the DM surface.
So the shop owner negotiating a "reward" for the camera and suggested to us that it was common practice between boats to make sure clients get a reward for finding lost equipment and that the cost of a days diving is standard for recovery of a $1,000 + camera rig.
The diver on the other boat paid $60 and our boat returned the camera. Now, I should say that my friend had given the camera to the DM upon surfacing and was not involved in this negotiation at all.
My op said he had been on the other side of this transaction many times.
Is this a thing? Was my op just being an ass? I dunno. On one hand if it is the way things are done, who am I to buck the "system".... but if I had a dog in the hunt I woulda just given the guy his camera.
Interested in any insight from the local Ops. Also, I will not name my op as I do consider him a friend.