<<Who stocks this in Palau, and for how much?>>
We are agreed that is likely no one, though I wonder about that for such a popular device. Agreed that it would likely end up being a purchase from the USA. Agreed that it would cost some money to ship, and more than I would pay to get it here, though some mention it could be only $15-20. Agreed that the delivery service isn't the best. However, these guys return to land weekly so you don't need a delivery in the middle of the ocean, and, having been there, they aren't in the middle of nowhere but in one of the major cities there. So it isn't a plane to a slow boat to a 14 hour bus ride into the jungle. It's more a plane to a truck that drops it off with the rest of the stuff they order. So to distill all that down, yes, it costs more than getting here in the US, but I suggest the price they are charging is still appreciably over what it would cost to get it to Palau as well, including any "inconvenience charge" they wish to assess. I'd also think if you were renting these things where a red filter can make all the difference between footage you would want to see and show others, or just blue, blue, blue, you would buy a few to have in case swimming around in Palau's famous currents knocks one off. It would not save much cost but it would resolve the "I need it now, it takes too long to ship" problem. I am also wondering about how they knocked it off since they are attached pretty well if correctly installed.
All these things weren't the end of the world, but there were some things that I'd expect management would not want to happen. While I don't expect a public flogging or naming of names, it seems every report we see has a followup that says "charges not proven", and many times basically say your version is not truthful, and that is troubling to me as a customer spending thousands on my big trip. It's like a traffic ticket. Without real evidence (your word is not good enough, but the officer's word on its own is), how can you prove it, and who goes along collecting such evidence just in case?