Your messages have clearly indicated your personal allegiance.
I don't even know where to start with this epistle, so I won't even try...
Regarding this one comment, my "allegiance" is to the dive community. Kelly has been a good friend ever since she arrived in Tobermory. I was friends with Mike long before that. I'm still friends with Mike as well. It's been a tumultuous few years for DD but it all got sorted.
I'm also friends with the owners and many of the staff at Blue Heron. They're also clients, so I have a pretty good idea of how they run their business affairs.
As much as this sucks for Kelly, this transition was not a "hostile takeover". Far from it. If anything, BHC provided a partial solution to the problem created by the insurance industry.
I know for a fact that BHC had no particular interest in getting in to the dive business. But they recognized that Tobermory needed a dive shop so they stepped up to insure that there was one.
So if your interpretation of my posts is that I have a clear allegiance to one party or the other, you're mistaken. Sh!t, I barely use the shop... I have my own boat and my main buddy has a compressor in town. I haven't been on a charter in Tobermory except when I was teaching for about 30 years. (Actually, that's a iie... When Becky Kagen came for a visit, a bunch of friends charted a boat for the day.)
Anyway, there's no doubt that this situation is a concern to divers wanting to dive in Tobermory, but I am very confident that the new operation with be awesome, just as the old one was.
