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At mermaids chances are your equipment will be serviced by some trainee on a course. Not sure how the others you mentioned operate.
I would concur with the last post from Limbo, Steve Burton has been around for ages and I have heard nothing but good said about him.
And as mad as a box of frogs, but in the nicest possible waySteve Burton is Scubaengineer.