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Nope... :lol:I wanted to wait a few days to view the broad spectrum of comments. It is obvious the jerk from FKDC was the first one to comment on this post.
For him to provide you with his pressure gauge, he has to stop what he is doing and watch you use it less it vanish as tools so often do. He felt it has already been checked by his staff. Using your reg & spg was appropriate since he was trying to get a big boat ready to go.
I know when I loan tools out, I have to watch them being used so I get them back - or hope for the best, often tracking them down, searching for where they were laid or hid. An hour before a big boat is launched on a busy holiday, I am sure everyone had plenty to worry about and plenty of work to do without tourists questioning their work.Again, I showed up more than an hour before the boat left the dock, there may have been 3 or 4 customers at the shop total, with zero line at the fill station. I paid for fills from the shop. I don't see any problem with asking to use a pressure gauge to check the tank when I am the only one standing there. I was not going to 'walk away' with the gauge, I wasn't preventing the idiot employee from doing anything in the least. He was standing next to the fill station right next to my tank, which he had filled a few minutes prior.
So anyway, did you take your own tank down from Massachusetts to Florida? I guess that gets you the locals discount. How much did it save you...?
It costs twice as much to send two boats out for one boat load. Would you and the rest been happier paying twice as much that way...?As far as the 25 diver situation, yes I have learned to use a six pack dive op and not a cattle car. If there are two boats available it seems logical to utilize both boats and allow customers to not be packed like sardines, but that is just my opinion. I understand there is a cost associated with running a second boat. I also understand that the short term (tips) and long term (repeat customers) will greatly improve the bottom line for the crew and business when customers are happy.
:laughing: Dude, I do not work for any dive op, or in Florida, etc. You did not reply to dozens of posts so I guessed. Whatever - enjoy the rest of Scubaboard and the rest of the Keys.I was only going to post one last time but this brilliant comment deserves a response. It is obvious by your comment that you some how feel that you (the employee) are in competition with me (the customer). This is not a win or lose situation, there is only information provided. I've made my decision regarding this dive op. I can not / will not decide what other divers will do. My goal was to share information with fellow divers, and I have accomplished this.
Actually I have thought that way at times, I know - but they wouldn't have even been there at 7:30 if they didn't have other work to do. Going to sea is risky business, everything needs to be right and checked, make sure nothing is missed, and then you get a couple of dozen tourists to please - one with an attitude.By showing up at a dive op at 7:30am prior to other customers arriving I do not see the relevance to it being a holiday weekend. This would surely matter at 8:30 or 9 once other customers showed up at the dive op.