Sharksighter
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Ok vote on the best.. it seems some of you don't like the control people at LCB.
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carlislere:Pirates Point would be the first, Southern Cross the second choice.
Please tell me more about this issue of "control people at LCB". I have been working as a divemaster at LCBR this past winter so I well know all the people involved and how we run the dives. On every dive, we give people the option of going off on their own as part of a buddy team or following the divemaster around on a tour. Since we (the DM's) help people in the water and then back out of the water, the DM leading the tour is always the last one in the water and then the first one back out. Consequently, the tour is only about 25-30 minutes long and ends up back at the boat. But nobody has to go with us--and sometimes nobody does. But some people want to be guided around, so we offer that...as an option. Other than that, the only stipulations we make are that people go as part of a buddy team, keep the first dive of the day to max 100'/45 minutes and the second and third dives to 60'/50 minutes. The 100' depth limit is mandated by the Cayman Islands Tourism Association, to which all the resorts belong. And the time limits are there simply as a courtesy to the 95% of the divers who will be back before that time and then don't want to sit around rocking on the boat waiting for the one diver in the group who has gills instead of lungs.THAD:Ok vote on the best.. it seems some of you don't like the control people at LCB.
zf2nt:Please tell me more about this issue of "control people at LCB".
The 100' depth limit is mandated by the Cayman Islands Tourism Association, to which all the resorts belong.
And the time limits are there simply as a courtesy to the 95% of the divers who will be back before that time and then don't want to sit around rocking on the boat waiting for the one diver in the group who has gills instead of lungs.
Anyway, if you know more about this feeling that there is too much control exerted by the DM's at LCBR I would really like to know about it and would gladly pass those opinions/observations along to the rest of the dive staff. We think we run THE class act on Little Cayman, and are always trying to be better at it.
Damselfish:And don't be petty about the time limit. We have for a fact come up 5-10 minutes late to a LCBR boat (for reasons I won't get into here, and this wasn't a habit) and gotten really yelled at. (No, I don't remember their name.) That's just unacceptable. And we have had a few divemasters that seemed on power trips, even if it's not follow the leader - there was often just a tone to the whole thing, a feeling that's hard to explain. Maybe it's not the case now, but it's certainly been that way sometimes.