Bonaire advice needed

[drrich2]

In March of '07 on a week long Bonaire trip at Eden's Beach Resort, which uses WannaDive as their onsite dive shop, if memory serves we had hot water & air conditioning.

Our stove was gas, though, with a pilot light, & the temp. dial on the oven didn't have numbers so we sort of had to guess when cooking in it.

Richard.

 

[Damselfish]

I'm going to Wannadive for Thanksgiving weekend. No hot water is the norm on Curacao. Sinks look odd with only one water knob but that's the way of it.

You mean in houses, I assume? Certainly not true of any hotel I've stayed in, or any of the major ones.

 

[under water]

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But if you've ever had an out-of-air situation at depth, like I did one time during my open water course (my Instructor was right there & attended to it immediately once I signaled him; I'm a big guy, was nervous & sucking air very fast so I ran out way ahead of the rest), you may know that you don't get much warning before you realize you're out. No big lungful of air to hold your breath & slowly release as you ascend; OUT!!!
Richard.

Richard,
I'm having a hard time imagining running through a tank of air and not noticing it until the end during OW training. Didn't your instructor give you rules about when to turn around a dive, how much air to surface with, etc? when you ran out of air how much was in it the last time you checked the gauge? Not trying to come down on you, just trying to figure out the scenario.

Thanks

 

[drrich2]

Frank:

It's been awhile & not worth derailing the thread over. I don't remember all the details. I tried to check my SPG pretty often, but I was anxious, cold water on my face (Vortex Springs) was probably making it worse, and even calm & at ease nowadays I go through an 80 CF aluminum tank in at most 35 minutes (& that's with more experience) - so under those circumstances (+ using a weight belt; I tend to involuntarily pivot with a weight belt, an issue I've gotten around since by switching to a weight-integrated BCD) & feeling the pressure of trying to get certified before our honeymoon (which included some scuba diving & being well over 300 lbs at the time, I was sucking air like a vacuum cleaner. I ended up finished my open water check out dives with 2 more later, on our honeymoon.

Richard.

 

[Tennessee Slim]

You mean in houses, I assume? Certainly not true of any hotel I've stayed in, or any of the major ones.

Yes, Damselfish, you're absolutely right. I was talking homes, not hotels. They do have two taps, but some of them have little or no hot water either. My intent was to point out that the locals do not consider the lack of hot water an inconvenience.

 

[diversteve]

Yes, Damselfish, you're absolutely right. I was talking homes, not hotels. They do have two taps, but some of them have little or no hot water either.

That confused the heck out of us at our condos in Piscadera since both taps ran cold. We finally figured out that the instant hot water boiler mounted in the shower had to be turned on to get hot water in the bathroom sink.

 

[Tennessee Slim]

That confused the heck out of us at our condos in Piscadera since both taps ran cold. We finally figured out that the instant hot water boiler mounted in the shower had to be turned on to get hot water in the bathroom sink.

I spent my first two weeks on the island in the Clarion Hotel, a nice and quite new hotel that's along side the Hilton and Marriott on Piscadera Bay. Every morning, I started the shower when I put on my coffee and 15-20 minutes later -- voila! -- hot shower ...sometimes).

 

[milosusa]

Frank:

It's been awhile & not worth derailing the thread over. I don't remember all the details. I tried to check my SPG pretty often, but I was anxious, cold water on my face (Vortex Springs) was probably making it worse, and even calm & at ease nowadays I go through an 80 CF aluminum tank in at most 35 minutes (& that's with more experience) - so under those circumstances (+ using a weight belt; I tend to involuntarily pivot with a weight belt, an issue I've gotten around since by switching to a weight-integrated BCD) & feeling the pressure of trying to get certified before our honeymoon (which included some scuba diving & being well over 300 lbs at the time, I was sucking air like a vacuum cleaner. I ended up finished my open water check out dives with 2 more later, on our honeymoon.

Richard.

I am glad that I am not only one who go thru an 80 CF in 30 - 40 min. I don;t like to do boat dives , because of it. I was happy on Bonaire like kid in candy store, because I can do shore diving on my pace over there, just my and my wife, even she always end up with twice of air compare to me.:14:
milos