We knew it was rainy season,
I wonder what dates tend to be the main risky season for that?
then spent the surface intervals in the walk-in refrigerator they called a boat.
By the way, thanks for posting your thoughts. I've been eager to see what you thought of it all, and comparing CocoView Resort to the Aggressor.
When I've been on Caribbean Aggressors, I tended to find a lounge chair to nap on (if I wasn't after food) between dives, rather than go inside. And the top deck tends to be partially covered. Was that an option, or did you prefer hanging out in the main salon (lounge, whatever it's called)?
No amount of warnings prepared me for the sand fleas or whatever those biting insects are.
This seems to individual. I was moderate on Deep Woods Off use (with DEET), but was hardly bothered if at all. Some people, like you guys, seem to be bug magnets. I can see where that'd be off-putting.
As predicted in this thread, I did some of the same dive sites with the Aggressor, and I much preferred the profiles we did there.
but every dive at CoCo View is what you make it.
When I was at CocoView Resort, we had this one guy with a pony bottle who dove deeper than the rest of us. Way deep, it seemed. I followed him (not a buddy dive) in on one of the drop-off dives headed back, I think I broke off at 85 feet for so (IIRC) as he headed deeper.
No idea what he found particularly interesting deep.
As predicted in this thread, I did some of the same dive sites with the Aggressor, and I much preferred the profiles we did there. I guess it shows the true meaning of Sly Stone's "different strokes for different folks."
One other difference, if the
Roatan Aggressor forbids solo diving like I believe some of the others do. For the drop-off dives at least, CocoView Resort boat staff were okay with me diving solo as long as conditions were good (if less so, they preferred to drop me off at the
Prince Albert wreck than either of the 2 walls). So a few questions:
1.) Did the
Roatan Aggressor allow solo diving?
2.) Their
Know Before You Go page says they provide 80-cf tanks. Did they offer any 100-cf tanks? CocoView Resort had both, air and nitrox, and no extra charge for big tanks.
3.) CocoView Resort offers a low single supplement, whereas most live-aboard single supplements are expensive.
4.) CocoView Resort doesn't have many big sales, from what I understand, whereas Aggressor boats in the Caribbean do (e.g.: November, 'Dive the World' weeks, etc...), so price comparisons can be a little hit or miss, but overall, how did the cost of your week at each compare?
P.S.: Congratulations on 2 weeks diving!