flareside
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Strange that it was posted in the forum rather than with the regular shop reviews where it would get the most notice.
Check out this post about Coconut Tree
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Mike
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Still curious how you sue somebody in Honduras from US, didn't an illegal airline operate on Roatan for 10 years and splatter itself on the bay a couple of years ago and basically the entire settlement consisted of their website disappearing? I had a hard time trying to take a guy to small claims court who was able to hide in Denver so well nobody could find him to serve him. I'd think going to Roatan would be a method somebody here would use to run away from legal matters because it would be so difficult to pursue a case. I guess you could send Dog the bounty hunter after him, but I think even Dog is reluctant to cross international borders anymore since he spent all that time in jail in Mexico trying to bring somebody back a few years ago.
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That air tour was only around a few years before the accident, no where near ten years , Word is that six figures have changed hands between the owners insurance company and those on board at the time.
If you REALLY want to know how to go about filing a lawsuit, the building just west of the Municipal in Coxen Hole is mostly lawyers and they can help you with this
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That explains the smell and total lack of any discernible activity.
How long has it been and you're just figuring that out, now? I thought that was a basic given truth.
Improbable and grotesque mischief:
"I'm hiding in Honduras
I'm a desperate man,
Send lawyers, guns, and money...............<-hence my email address, for those of you who have seen it
the sh*t has hit the fan"
Licensing an aircraft has got to be easier than licensing a submarine.
I mean, you might think.
Believe me: Jabberwocky, through the looking glass. Everything you know is wrong. Give up all hope those who enter.
Best advice: Come, stay for a week or two, wear earplugs, enjoy, go home. The Bay Islands are best in small doses.
Can't wait to read the response from the shop. Not sure if they make bags of popcorn that big...
Bratface
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Another person has replied to the Trip Advisor post in a negative way. I posted as well in a nice way, of course, but asked what did the original poster expect Coconut Tree Divers to do for him.
I am also wondering if he saw an ENT or dive medicine ENT? I sent the guy a nice private message urging him to call DAN and see a specialist in dive medicine if he hadn't already.
"The incredibly loud noise permanently wrecked my hearing and ended my diving career (my doctor says that further diving risks total deafness). The owners are apologetic but refuse to do anything to help me. They are utterly irresponsible and their shop should be avoided." ( from trip advisor)
I am also wondering if he saw an ENT or dive medicine ENT? I sent the guy a nice private message urging him to call DAN and see a specialist in dive medicine if he hadn't already.
"The incredibly loud noise permanently wrecked my hearing and ended my diving career (my doctor says that further diving risks total deafness). The owners are apologetic but refuse to do anything to help me. They are utterly irresponsible and their shop should be avoided." ( from trip advisor)
The TA story sounded a little fishy...not that someone would explode a firecracker in a shop...kids will be kids. But there are several things that just sound odd to me:
1) It was an owner that played the prank. I am not naive enough to think that an owner is above such Tom Foolery, but most would not risk such a prank (they see the insurance bill monthly).
2) The AT poster said that the firecracker permanently damaged his hearing. If a firecracker has 150 dBs, then at 10 ft it would reduce to about 140 dBs. Granted this is loud, but unless it is sustained noise, the brief firecracker should not cause such damage. Why aren't there deaf kids running around on the 4th of July or after a rock concert?
3) If the loud noise was so damaging, shouldn't there have been a concussion associated with this from a blast wave? All explosions that I have been associated with that caused hearing loss also had a blast wave with them.
4) Diving makes a hard of hearing person go deaf? I have had a hearing problem for the last 20 years. I have worked around loud machinery, shot firearms without hearing protection (It just wasn’t cool when I was 30 years younger...what you say, I didn’t hear you…you say always wear hearing protection or I might go deaf) and most recently in one night had 79 mortars and rockets impact a small base I was on in Iraq...very loud all night long. I have seen my dive doctor, who is trained in ENT, and she said nothing about going totally deaf from diving. With my diagnosed hearing loss, I have dived more than 200+ dives and still not worse than when I began...according to my audiologist who was a Navy SEAL and a commercial diver.
Maybe by themselves each one of these could be creditable; but when taken together I just don't buy his story.
Now I could be wrong about one or more of my suspensions, but that is the beauty of ScubaBoard...if I am SOMEONE will point out my erroneous ways.
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1) It was an owner that played the prank. I am not naive enough to think that an owner is above such Tom Foolery, but most would not risk such a prank (they see the insurance bill monthly).
2) The AT poster said that the firecracker permanently damaged his hearing. If a firecracker has 150 dBs, then at 10 ft it would reduce to about 140 dBs. Granted this is loud, but unless it is sustained noise, the brief firecracker should not cause such damage. Why aren't there deaf kids running around on the 4th of July or after a rock concert?
3) If the loud noise was so damaging, shouldn't there have been a concussion associated with this from a blast wave? All explosions that I have been associated with that caused hearing loss also had a blast wave with them.
4) Diving makes a hard of hearing person go deaf? I have had a hearing problem for the last 20 years. I have worked around loud machinery, shot firearms without hearing protection (It just wasn’t cool when I was 30 years younger...what you say, I didn’t hear you…you say always wear hearing protection or I might go deaf) and most recently in one night had 79 mortars and rockets impact a small base I was on in Iraq...very loud all night long. I have seen my dive doctor, who is trained in ENT, and she said nothing about going totally deaf from diving. With my diagnosed hearing loss, I have dived more than 200+ dives and still not worse than when I began...according to my audiologist who was a Navy SEAL and a commercial diver.
Maybe by themselves each one of these could be creditable; but when taken together I just don't buy his story.
Now I could be wrong about one or more of my suspensions, but that is the beauty of ScubaBoard...if I am SOMEONE will point out my erroneous ways.
~Oldbear~
Bratface
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I got a reply from the poster on trip advisor. He says that the owner of Coconut Tree admitted to doing the deed and had apologized. He says he has permanent damage and has two conditions that cause tinnitus (ears ringing). He says he is not deaf. He appreciated my suggestion that he call DAN for a referral to an ENT dive medicine doc. He says several people had temporary problems with the ears but he is an old guy so his was more severe.
So for what it's worth, I believe people until I have a reason not to.
So for what it's worth, I believe people until I have a reason not to.
Still will never convince me that this firecracker caused his problems...maybe added to them. I am glad he is seeking DAN's advice and will see a ENT specialist.
I still only beleive half of what I read on the internet and the other half I distrust since I wrote it. :chuckle:
I still only beleive half of what I read on the internet and the other half I distrust since I wrote it. :chuckle:
beth_castroll
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I've been watching the TA tread as we are going to Roatan in a month. (yay!!)
Speaking of DAN, I was wondering.....would DAN cover his costs?
*medical?
*trip reimbursement?
We will dive with CTD. We dove with them in 2008 & 2010. In 2008 I stepped on ****ty Kitty's take and it grabbed my leg and gave me a good scratch from which I still have scares from today. HUmmmmm.......
Speaking of DAN, I was wondering.....would DAN cover his costs?
*medical?
*trip reimbursement?
We will dive with CTD. We dove with them in 2008 & 2010. In 2008 I stepped on ****ty Kitty's take and it grabbed my leg and gave me a good scratch from which I still have scares from today. HUmmmmm.......
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