holydiver
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gotta friend who wants to dive the rigs and need a good recommendation for who to go thru....he also wants to join the swapmers let me know... he has dove many times with me so that should do it i think....DEE let me know
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The guy we used to use for the rigs is out of business. I have a couple ear marked to try that have been recommended but can't vouch for them personally...
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Ultra Dive - we have a friend who DM's for this guy occassionally. Says the boat is configured so that all tanks are stored on the bow. I'd make sure I was geared up before I left the dock!
DalTexDiver
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I dove with this operator last year. It was the dive trip from Hell. First dive went fine as we all got under the rig despite a killer current. Second dive, the divemaster decided we did not need to use the tie off rope to the rig and we tried to just dive down the the rig leg.
That was the beginning of the problem. Two divers made the rig leg, 4 divers including the divemaster got caught in the current. Two made it back to the boat and two (including the divemaster) went down current.
As the captain had divers under the rig, he could not leave the rig. He let the two divers drift out of sight in the current for 45 minutes till retrieving them.
Another crew member and a chase boat would have made all that unneccessary but that was not the case.
We may have just had a bad day and I might consider diving with this guy again but the experience was not good.
Also, we had been seeing sharks all day. Tried not to think about that while drifting toward Cuba, hoping the boat would come get us.
Just my experience.
That was the beginning of the problem. Two divers made the rig leg, 4 divers including the divemaster got caught in the current. Two made it back to the boat and two (including the divemaster) went down current.
As the captain had divers under the rig, he could not leave the rig. He let the two divers drift out of sight in the current for 45 minutes till retrieving them.
Another crew member and a chase boat would have made all that unneccessary but that was not the case.
We may have just had a bad day and I might consider diving with this guy again but the experience was not good.
Also, we had been seeing sharks all day. Tried not to think about that while drifting toward Cuba, hoping the boat would come get us.
Just my experience.
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