You know, it would be fun to make this an island-wide event. Maybe a shop or shops can host it and provide pizza and beer. They can bring as many staff as they want, or think need this, and we can make an entire evening of it. Cozumel is one of our more 'hostile' forums and it just doesn't have to be. If all the shops banded together to do this right, the acrimony can go way down, the fun way up and that would result in an increase in traffic for everyone. Tuesday would be the night I would choose. What say ye, Cozu-DiveOps?
EDIT=> OK, OK, I know that American Dive Ops thrive on pizza and beer. I have no idea what our Mexican amigos go for. I'm open for anything.
The irony of that is that we (dive shops) HAVE banded together - there are MANY of us who are friends and at least have very nice professional relationships. There are now 40+ shops who have banded together, working to establish regular meetings to discuss different issues we face, promotions, events, etc. (we've already met twice since the Secrets debacle and 3rd meeting is being planned). We are all working together on solutions to help each other, the island, and the industry as a whole. Honestly, it's the cheerleaders for the different ops that create the illusion that we are "enemies" - many of us laugh about it.
