Sask
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I have done several cruises over the years but never dove on them. This year another couple that came on this particular cruise, the guy was a diver. So my wife would be busy snorkelling with her buddy I could dive a couple of times with mine.
Having read many posts about cruise ship excursions and "cruise ship divers" I thought I don't really get it. I am a diver who dives relatively well and now I am going on a cruise. I should be with a whole bunch of people kinda like me.
Ok now I get it. Our first snorkelling excursion was cancelled in Cozumel so we booked a dive. That brought our diving to three ports.
Out of the six dives that had anywhere from 14-18 dare I say divers about 4-6 could actually dive. It is obviously way to easy to get certified. One of the other guys who could dive called it mosh pit diving and it truly was. I also now get why the operators take these groups to less than stellar locations. I appreciate that we did that.
I tried very hard to stay behind the pit but sometimes they would just sneak up on you, once while looking in a hole for apparently too long I was sandwiched from above and below at the same time. I guess they wanted to see what I was looking at......
One guy right from the start said don't worry if you see me breathing off my wife's tank, I'm an air hog so I suck mine to 300 then share hers till we need to go up. I have some nice video of them.
I don't pretend to be the worlds best diver but I can take care of myself, have decent buoyancy and I don't kick people or coral.
Long story but I have learned my lesson, if I ever dive from a cruise ship again it will not be through the ship.
Having read many posts about cruise ship excursions and "cruise ship divers" I thought I don't really get it. I am a diver who dives relatively well and now I am going on a cruise. I should be with a whole bunch of people kinda like me.
Ok now I get it. Our first snorkelling excursion was cancelled in Cozumel so we booked a dive. That brought our diving to three ports.
Out of the six dives that had anywhere from 14-18 dare I say divers about 4-6 could actually dive. It is obviously way to easy to get certified. One of the other guys who could dive called it mosh pit diving and it truly was. I also now get why the operators take these groups to less than stellar locations. I appreciate that we did that.
I tried very hard to stay behind the pit but sometimes they would just sneak up on you, once while looking in a hole for apparently too long I was sandwiched from above and below at the same time. I guess they wanted to see what I was looking at......
One guy right from the start said don't worry if you see me breathing off my wife's tank, I'm an air hog so I suck mine to 300 then share hers till we need to go up. I have some nice video of them.
I don't pretend to be the worlds best diver but I can take care of myself, have decent buoyancy and I don't kick people or coral.
Long story but I have learned my lesson, if I ever dive from a cruise ship again it will not be through the ship.