all4scuba05
Contributor
wow...have not been here a year yet. But SO SO many times I see the warnings, "book your dives with the cruise ships or you'll be taking a huge risk of being left behind."
I never book with the cruise ships. Why? because not one person has ever told me here or anywhere that they didn't make it back to the ship ontime. I bet that if we count the times that divers have missed the ship, it would be less than 1% of the time.
Last month I had a choice of diving with the ship's group for $140 or drift diving with a guide for $92 which included 2 tank boat dive and a fire pit cookout on the beach. Got back to the ship 2 hours early. The dive op kept asking me if I wanted to head back. He was more concerned about the ship than I was. Even if he hadn't been. I would've asked to go back to the beach and call me a cab. Point is that for the most part, cruise dives and locally scheduled dives are a world apart.
So lets stop with the warnings already... Actually, don't stop scaring them, so that when I go on vacation, they'll always have a spot for me since most cruisers have booked with the ship and are now on the cattleboat.
I never book with the cruise ships. Why? because not one person has ever told me here or anywhere that they didn't make it back to the ship ontime. I bet that if we count the times that divers have missed the ship, it would be less than 1% of the time.
Last month I had a choice of diving with the ship's group for $140 or drift diving with a guide for $92 which included 2 tank boat dive and a fire pit cookout on the beach. Got back to the ship 2 hours early. The dive op kept asking me if I wanted to head back. He was more concerned about the ship than I was. Even if he hadn't been. I would've asked to go back to the beach and call me a cab. Point is that for the most part, cruise dives and locally scheduled dives are a world apart.
So lets stop with the warnings already... Actually, don't stop scaring them, so that when I go on vacation, they'll always have a spot for me since most cruisers have booked with the ship and are now on the cattleboat.