hallboy
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Hello everyone
So me and my 2 buddies went on th Don Questo for a one week cruise. the cruis was supposed to go South but weather conditions make us go back North to a " classic cruise".... grye sky ; a bit to much wind after 2 days byebye shorties; hello 5 mm ( no hood : water temp was 25/24° C ; but 3 dives a day with deco any time even on Nitrox 28 is getting you tired)
So : what to say ...sharks a t each dive if i remmeber well ; something like 20 hammerheads ( the big reason for Nitrox 28: good way to go down til 47 meters to see them without to much deco .. they wher most of the time at 55/60meters ) schools of baracuda ; some potato cods ; bumphead parrotfishes, jacks ; nice coral etcetc.... 3 happy divers
the cruis was really international i'm french the crew is italian but we spoke mostly spanish because it was the easyest to do as a spanish guy completed our trio to make a quatuor ... around us they were 4 ukrnians 3 english 1 italian; one springbok ( south africa) so the briefing were in english even if one to one conversation were jumping from french to italian to english or spanish
about the crew: good food; everything went easy and simple a nd i have to point one thing:
Mauricio.
Mauricio is maybe the best divemaster that i have dive with ... and i dove in maldives ; mejico; france , indonesia; philippines; thailand; Sipadan; palau ; antiguas egypt etcetc... the kind of guy you are happy to see in the morning; that make you feel safe underwater, show you stuff and in the same time " share YOUR dive" not his, giving you space and time and juste pace your dive .. and the kind of guy you have pleasure to eat whith in the evening; joke with and share a lot of laughs.
Again thank you Maurico: i will come back with Florent and Virginie and maybe some others for a 2 weeks /deep south in 2 or 3 years ( next year is Fakarava/Rangiroa ).
So me and my 2 buddies went on th Don Questo for a one week cruise. the cruis was supposed to go South but weather conditions make us go back North to a " classic cruise".... grye sky ; a bit to much wind after 2 days byebye shorties; hello 5 mm ( no hood : water temp was 25/24° C ; but 3 dives a day with deco any time even on Nitrox 28 is getting you tired)
So : what to say ...sharks a t each dive if i remmeber well ; something like 20 hammerheads ( the big reason for Nitrox 28: good way to go down til 47 meters to see them without to much deco .. they wher most of the time at 55/60meters ) schools of baracuda ; some potato cods ; bumphead parrotfishes, jacks ; nice coral etcetc.... 3 happy divers
the cruis was really international
i'm french the crew is italian but we spoke mostly spanish because it was the easyest to do as a spanish guy completed our trio to make a quatuor ... around us they were 4 ukrnians 3 english 1 italian; one springbok ( south africa) so the briefing were in english even if one to one conversation were jumping from french to italian to english or spanishabout the crew: good food; everything went easy and simple a nd i have to point one thing:
Mauricio.
Mauricio is maybe the best divemaster that i have dive with ... and i dove in maldives ; mejico; france , indonesia; philippines; thailand; Sipadan; palau ; antiguas egypt etcetc... the kind of guy you are happy to see in the morning; that make you feel safe underwater, show you stuff and in the same time " share YOUR dive" not his, giving you space and time and juste pace your dive .. and the kind of guy you have pleasure to eat whith in the evening; joke with and share a lot of laughs.
Again thank you Maurico: i will come back with Florent and Virginie and maybe some others for a 2 weeks /deep south in 2 or 3 years ( next year is Fakarava/Rangiroa ).
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