What makes your dive op different? Dive Shop Survey

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Another thing to consider is the DM, which is an entirely subjective evaluation. The DM that diver A might love, might drive us nuts, and it would have absolutely nothing to do with the op.

Examples:
We love swim-throughs.
We are not photographers, (We love and appreciate your pictures and videos though).
 
Thank you for everyone's response. Yes, I agree that there are already too many "Which dive Op" threads on this forum. Date of Information, and Valet service would definitely need to be in there. I am aware of the number of dive ops (or at least I have heard that there were over 100) but my intention was to limit it to the "Top Ten" or so...maybe 20... that are frequently referred to on this board. I agree that a searchable list would be of value, but I have no intention of charging, or trying to generate revenue off of this, or even listing a ranking or reviews. I can see that the number of columns could grow excessive, but I wanted to keep it as objective as possible, with maybe an "other attributes" column as a catch all. I have had what I feel to be a heart felt request by one operator, who's opinion I value and respect, to not do this for some of the problems already mentioned. At this point, I may experiment with the list on a private basis, just to see how it works, but I don't see myself posting anything in the near future. Again, thank you for your responses.

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Have a Merry Christmas everyone.
Jay
 
A wise move on your part to abandon this idea. Things are too subjective on this just like trying to decide on what the best restaurant or meal is. We are all too different to decide on something this subjective.
 
Ideally, something like this would be a phone app that is community populated, but there would need to be some method of monetization to cover infrastructure costs. There already are similar apps but they have not become well known or used thus the data is scarce.
 
Great idea, don't let the super negative responses get to you, that's just typical. Only thing is I'd recommend you use Access instead of Excel, what you want is a database that you can query. Access would act like a search engine, your hits would be the dive operators who match your questions -"who has steel tanks?", "who has fast boats?" "list all operators in order of price from lowest to highest" etc..
* Note- if you can use Excel you can use Access. Probably take you about 2-3 hours to get up to speed.
 
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