In order of my annoyance, but not necessarily in order of importance:
1. Missed first wreck entirely (difficult to do since the remains of the bow supposedly stick out onto the beach). I did a quartering search in an attempt to find it. No luck.
2. Bad drop on second wreck.
3. Captain left us waiting for 45 minutes while he suited up and tried to find the second wreck. This was after he told us that he would be back in 5 minutes.
4. Loran/GPS numbers were bad. In the case of the second wreck, the numbers would have put us 200 feet up on the beach. This is a wreck that you find by lining up the lighthouse and the channel marker.
5. No safety brief.
6. We had to supply our own O2 kit.
7. No visible first aid kit, although there may have been one in the mass of equipment stored under the bridge and accessed through the head.
8. No site brief.
9. No dive flag during dive ops. When I pointed this out, Captain promised to fly one. It wasn't there when I surfaced and I couldn't find one.
10. Boat was surrounded by flys, which may have come from the nearby shore.
11. Storage racks could not accommodate my tanks, so they were stored in a bilge filled with brown water. I bagged off my valves, but come on.
12. Captain provided no assistance to the divers in terms of donning/removing equipment, entering/exiting boat, etc.... Maybe I'm spoiled, but the other captains I've dealt with provide more service, along with really excellent cookies (Pecan Sandies, yum, yum).
OTOH, the boat was large and accommodated many divers without crowding. It had a working head and was stable when underway.
Needless to say, I was truly disappointed. However, the second dive was excellent. 60 minutes of bottom time, and I still had plenty of gas when I surfaced (that's unusual as my SAC rate is not the best in the world).
