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My wife and I are going to stay at the Oxidental and were planning on using Dive Palancar. Our concern isn't just the bad air, which I believe is a genuine concern. However more of a concern is how badly Dive Palancar handled the emergency. Reading most of the posts on this issue it appeared that the divers were not properly briefed on how Dive Palancar handles emergencies. We have dived mostly with Dressel and I assure you that before each dive we were extensively briefed on what to do in case another diver is in distress. Does anyone know if Dive Palancar notified another boat in the area of the emergency and to look out for the other divers still diving, or did they just assume that the rest of the divers would be OK? Is what they did standard practice? I believe that all dive boat captains are using the same radio frequency. Would not other captains heard the Dive Palancar boat captain call in the emergency? Apparently Dressel knew what they were doing because they had an emergency medical team ready when they arrived at the dock. We are still new to the sport and with these concerns we will probably not dive with Dive Palancar unless they can give us some assurance that they have learned from this whole ordeal and if they have made any changes to assure safe diving. By the way does anyone know about Co-Cop brand Co analyzer's reliability. It uses a small capsule to detect Co in tanks. It is much less expensive than the other types, and it seems to be easy to use. One thing I have learned is that I will be asking a lot more questions about emergency procedures and safety issues with the dive masters. If they can't answer or give me an attitue I woun't use their outfit.