From one of his blog entries:
"Hello everyone, I just got back from a week long stay in Turks and Caicos and was lucky enough to get 3 days of diving with Dive Provo. I used Caicos Adventures for my certification last year but this year the people I was diving with wanted to see how other companies on the island operated (as this is a yearly destination for my family). Dive Provo was a great experience and I highly recommend them for any divers in the Turks and Caicos. Very friendly and approachable people who have years of experience on the island as well as diving. My mother, brothers fiancée and my friend were getting certified while my brother and I have been certified for years we were able to be on the same boat and experience their reactions while doing the surface interval. It was really something hearing the excitement and passion from everyone after explaining for the past year why they should be certified!. The certification process through Dive Provo was impressively in-depth including 4 hours of pool time the day before and a maximum of 4 students per group unless previously discussed."
Judging a written account of something requires considering the intended audience and intended message. At a glance, seems like a focus here on the diver's 1st hand experience of photographing subjects at specific dive sites.
My suggestions aim to address the desires of people who might hope to use your thread to research whether to pick Turks & Caicos as a destination, and who there to use if they do. You might not be out to meet that need, so take this for what it is or isn't worth. My suggestions:
1.) Give a summary of the destination; many people won't read the nitty gritty details, and a given dive site will vary a lot over time. Even if I someday dive your sites, I won't be doing your dives. Better yet, post the summary in your thread; some people want the bottom line here & now, not to go off reading lots of detail on another site.
2.) Why'd you pick Turks & Caicos over alternatives? This is a yearly destination for your family, you only dove 3 days this time, and not all of them had been certified divers, so I'm guessing T&C wasn't just chosen as a dive destination. Why does your family pick it? What else do they do?
3.) Turks & Caicos is one of those destinations where I see live-aboard diving recommended to get the best diving experience. Have you don't a live-aboard? If you did one here, would you consider yourself to be missing out on much vs. a land experience?
Richard.
