Phil TK
Contributor
What are everyone's views on dive ops that set up the customers' gear for them on the boat? (wether it be rented gear or customers gear)
Is this ok? or should all divers assemble their own kit as a matter of good practise?
I myself strongly favour all divers putting their own kit together but it seems that many ops now get their DMs to assemble the kit on behalf of the customers.
When I dived with R****** Divers in V****** I'd left my own gear back in Thailand and had to rent gear off this op which the crew assembled before I even got on the boat. We couldn't examine the kit before the dive as it was only assigned to us about one minute before we were strapped in and coraled with much haste off the back of the boat.(this made me very angry but my girlfriend gave me one of her looks and I kept quiet) I then had an 'incident' underwater (BIG O ring blow out) which may or may not have been due to shoddy examination/assembly -who knows? If this incident was caused by poor assembly or whatever, then my view is that I would at least like to retain the privalige of having mucked it up personally -if you see what I mean. It annoys me that somebody else might have been responsible.
What is wrong with customers setting up their own gear? I think a good dive op should insist on it.
Phil TK
Is this ok? or should all divers assemble their own kit as a matter of good practise?
I myself strongly favour all divers putting their own kit together but it seems that many ops now get their DMs to assemble the kit on behalf of the customers.
When I dived with R****** Divers in V****** I'd left my own gear back in Thailand and had to rent gear off this op which the crew assembled before I even got on the boat. We couldn't examine the kit before the dive as it was only assigned to us about one minute before we were strapped in and coraled with much haste off the back of the boat.(this made me very angry but my girlfriend gave me one of her looks and I kept quiet) I then had an 'incident' underwater (BIG O ring blow out) which may or may not have been due to shoddy examination/assembly -who knows? If this incident was caused by poor assembly or whatever, then my view is that I would at least like to retain the privalige of having mucked it up personally -if you see what I mean. It annoys me that somebody else might have been responsible.
What is wrong with customers setting up their own gear? I think a good dive op should insist on it.
Phil TK