Spanocha
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I signed up to dive with the whale sharks at the Georgia Aquarium (Atlanta) and I was just wondering if anyone else has done it. Any reviews you would like to share? Any complaints?
Has anyone participated in the "Dive with the Gentle Giants" program at GA?
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Do they still insist that you use their crappy gear?
mike_s
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it's $300 bucks for a 20 minute dive...
there is a recent thread on it here.
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/deep-dixie-divers/236323-diving-georgia-aquarium.html
and another... not as recent.
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/deep-dixie-divers/220828-just-announced-today-georgia-aquarium.html
there is a recent thread on it here.
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/deep-dixie-divers/236323-diving-georgia-aquarium.html
and another... not as recent.
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/deep-dixie-divers/220828-just-announced-today-georgia-aquarium.html
What is the interest rate on the loan you'll have to take out to do it?
I have not, I think it is a cool idea, but not for $300. I guess it will just be superelitist or I'll have to volunteer (which I would if I were closer)
~Jeff
I have not, I think it is a cool idea, but not for $300. I guess it will just be superelitist or I'll have to volunteer (which I would if I were closer)
~Jeff
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Spanocha
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Yes, you have to use their equipment, but they do allow you to use your own mask.
As far as the price is concerned, I think it is a nominal fee when contrasted with the price I will eventually pay to travel to Isla Hollbox. It's a good deal when viewed from the proper perspective. Although it remains an aquarium dive, it is still the only place in the Western hemisphere where you can see captive whale sharks, let alone swim with one.
As far as the price is concerned, I think it is a nominal fee when contrasted with the price I will eventually pay to travel to Isla Hollbox. It's a good deal when viewed from the proper perspective. Although it remains an aquarium dive, it is still the only place in the Western hemisphere where you can see captive whale sharks, let alone swim with one.
would probably be too much of a liability to let you use your own gear.
even when I dive at the TN Aq as a volunteer we have to use their regs and BC's even though my personal gear is in better condition.
even when I dive at the TN Aq as a volunteer we have to use their regs and BC's even though my personal gear is in better condition.
But why not see them in the wild? You can do that in the Western Hemisphere.
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~Jeff
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mike_s
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I doubt it much about liability, because there is liability in providing the gear also.
It's about health of their enclosed underwater ecosystem. they don't want to bring anything in that will add possible bacteria, polute, add other algae, or any other oganism to their water system.
You can bring in your mask, but they will make you disenfect it before you can dive with it in order to protect their water system.
makes sense if you think about it. A lot of the aquariums that allow diving have rules like this.
cdreamer
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It just doesn't seem right to me. The GA Aquarium needs to learn how to better care for them
before they let the masses in to swim/dive with them.
before they let the masses in to swim/dive with them.
agreed but, we use our own mask, fins and wetsuits at Tn and only need to put them in the chlorine water if any are wet when we get there. I would think that more critters would live in booties and wetsuits than on a regulator, unless it's ones habit to let their regulators sit with water in the exhaust tees.
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