I do an awful lot of shore diving in the south part of Taiwan. There is this LDS that I use. Let me describe it for you.
I drive up and park my car. Look around for a dive truck/van that they let divers use for FREE. I get in and drive it up to the entrance of the garage. We look into the center of the garage and there is at least 200 tanks all filled up and ready to use. AL and steel and 3 different sizes are available. The cost is 3US/tank for instructor, 4.50US/tank for DM and the rest pay 6US/tank. We load the truck up with tanks and gear, change in there FREE showers, grab some FREE weight from the pile, take some FREE bottled water for the SI's and away we go.
Mind you there was absolutely zero talk at all with the owners. No "where to go" or "how is the vis".....nothing. Also they sell nothing....only have air.
Upon our return we unload the gear and wash all of it in there FREE wash buckets. They have about 15 of them filled with fresh water waiting for you to use. Then we hang all the gear on there FREE covered scuba gear racks. Use there FREE showers. Pay for the tank rental fee only, and then for the only communication is "thanks, bye, bye".
Come back two hours or so later for our gear.
My LDS is scubaboard.com and my retail store for gear is any number of the online dealers.
Is this the wave of the future?
I drive up and park my car. Look around for a dive truck/van that they let divers use for FREE. I get in and drive it up to the entrance of the garage. We look into the center of the garage and there is at least 200 tanks all filled up and ready to use. AL and steel and 3 different sizes are available. The cost is 3US/tank for instructor, 4.50US/tank for DM and the rest pay 6US/tank. We load the truck up with tanks and gear, change in there FREE showers, grab some FREE weight from the pile, take some FREE bottled water for the SI's and away we go.
Mind you there was absolutely zero talk at all with the owners. No "where to go" or "how is the vis".....nothing. Also they sell nothing....only have air.
Upon our return we unload the gear and wash all of it in there FREE wash buckets. They have about 15 of them filled with fresh water waiting for you to use. Then we hang all the gear on there FREE covered scuba gear racks. Use there FREE showers. Pay for the tank rental fee only, and then for the only communication is "thanks, bye, bye".
Come back two hours or so later for our gear.
My LDS is scubaboard.com and my retail store for gear is any number of the online dealers.
Is this the wave of the future?