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CoCoView (as an example of an all-inclusive) versus selecting an ala carte trip (from a West End Day Dive Op)
running the numbers::1book:
Many people ask whether it is best to go all inclusive (AI) where its all included, or to go to the variety of West End establishments that cater to the day diver. This example is slightly skewed as CCV is quite reasonable by Caribbean standards (as are also the West End Day Dive Ops), and the fact that you do really have unlimited diving at CCV, with an easy 5 a day possible, some pushing their stamina to 6 dives per day. At a day-dive operation, this would be all but impossible.
In looking at my recent two week trip, here are the figures:
The rack rate price for that two weeks at CCV was $850 x 2 = $1700 (Group rates for dive shop/groups are less)
The Crux of the Biscuit:
I did 61 dives, so figuring the West End negotiated bulk price of $20 per dive in multiple quantities, that would cost $1220, leaving $480 to buy 14 nights lodging, dinners, 13 breakfasts and lunches. $480 would leave an average of $34/per day to do that.
In my two weeks, I had 290 hours from the first moment I could dive until the last moment I should have been diving.
I spent about 6.25 hrs per day in the active overall pursuit of diving with a TBT of 59.62 hrs. This is slightly better than 20% of the available time that was allotted for diving and related preparation. Surface intervals between boat dives are rather minimal, but never even close to busting the charts. I was always in the green end of yellow, if not just plain green on the standard pixillation scale of dive computers.
Then night diving figuring 1940 hrs to 2115 hrs start to finish, so I added in another 18.9 hrs as part of the above TBT
figure.
Deduct out another 30.75 hrs eating and related operations, well, throw in another .75 hrs (reading time) making it a total of 31.50 hrs spent in the library.
Figuring sleep at 2200 hrs till 0630, at 8.5 hrs per day, giving me 100 hrs of wet dreams with nocturnal visions of reef critters.
I can account for 60 hours of non dive activity, largely found in the after lunch to before the afternoon 1400 boat dive, then after the boat dive return until dinner, then maybe a few minutes after breakfast before the average morning dive departure of 0830. A computed total there of 60 hrs, some spent in certifiable power naps as described under ISO/ANSI standards.
This, to some, may leave 39.63 hrs unaccounted for. Not so, Grasshopper
Multiply the number of years being a certified diver by the reciprocal of the number on your C Card, divide by the average bottom time of all dives (squared by the residual partial pressure of intestinal gas), impute that by the rate of ascent.
This figure gives you the amount of time that is spent telling stories, truths, lies and outright lapses in memory at the bar. Algebraicaly:
[(Yrs Cert) x (1/#)]/{A.B.T. x f@rts}^ft/min2 = TFAT (decimal hours)
This for me comes out to 39.75 hrs, so obviously I came out way ahead by diving at an AI resort.
Most divers will. :giveusahu:
Go to dive at a well chosen AI. Do other stuff :369: somewhere else.
Many people ask whether it is best to go all inclusive (AI) where its all included, or to go to the variety of West End establishments that cater to the day diver. This example is slightly skewed as CCV is quite reasonable by Caribbean standards (as are also the West End Day Dive Ops), and the fact that you do really have unlimited diving at CCV, with an easy 5 a day possible, some pushing their stamina to 6 dives per day. At a day-dive operation, this would be all but impossible.
In looking at my recent two week trip, here are the figures:
The rack rate price for that two weeks at CCV was $850 x 2 = $1700 (Group rates for dive shop/groups are less)
The Crux of the Biscuit:
I did 61 dives, so figuring the West End negotiated bulk price of $20 per dive in multiple quantities, that would cost $1220, leaving $480 to buy 14 nights lodging, dinners, 13 breakfasts and lunches. $480 would leave an average of $34/per day to do that.
In my two weeks, I had 290 hours from the first moment I could dive until the last moment I should have been diving.
I spent about 6.25 hrs per day in the active overall pursuit of diving with a TBT of 59.62 hrs. This is slightly better than 20% of the available time that was allotted for diving and related preparation. Surface intervals between boat dives are rather minimal, but never even close to busting the charts. I was always in the green end of yellow, if not just plain green on the standard pixillation scale of dive computers.
Then night diving figuring 1940 hrs to 2115 hrs start to finish, so I added in another 18.9 hrs as part of the above TBT
figure.Deduct out another 30.75 hrs eating and related operations, well, throw in another .75 hrs (reading time) making it a total of 31.50 hrs spent in the library.
Figuring sleep at 2200 hrs till 0630, at 8.5 hrs per day, giving me 100 hrs of wet dreams with nocturnal visions of reef critters.
I can account for 60 hours of non dive activity, largely found in the after lunch to before the afternoon 1400 boat dive, then after the boat dive return until dinner, then maybe a few minutes after breakfast before the average morning dive departure of 0830. A computed total there of 60 hrs, some spent in certifiable power naps as described under ISO/ANSI standards.
This, to some, may leave 39.63 hrs unaccounted for. Not so, Grasshopper
Multiply the number of years being a certified diver by the reciprocal of the number on your C Card, divide by the average bottom time of all dives (squared by the residual partial pressure of intestinal gas), impute that by the rate of ascent.
This figure gives you the amount of time that is spent telling stories, truths, lies and outright lapses in memory at the bar. Algebraicaly:
[(Yrs Cert) x (1/#)]/{A.B.T. x f@rts}^ft/min2 = TFAT (decimal hours)
This for me comes out to 39.75 hrs, so obviously I came out way ahead by diving at an AI resort.
Most divers will. :giveusahu:
Go to dive at a well chosen AI. Do other stuff :369: somewhere else.
