Over the years, pretty much everything in scuba has been discussed here many times. This is a discussion site. If we were to rely on searches for everything, we would shut down the discussions and just have a search function. That is not what we are about.
When I was a newer SB user, someone replied to one of my questions with a pretty hostile "Do a search, dammit!" post. It really made me feel unwelcome, and it angered me because I had done a search, and my question was slightly different from what I had found in that search.
More importantly, though, asking the same question can get you a different answer. Woody Allen once said that history is made by those who show up. That is absolutely true on ScubaBoard. Your repeated question can get a remarkably different response from the last time it was asked, depending upon who happens to be online to respond. That is especially true in the geographical forums. If you want to get a good recommendation of a dive operator, read a bunch of the threads asking the same question and compare the variety of answers to see what makes the most sense for you.
When I was a newer SB user, someone replied to one of my questions with a pretty hostile "Do a search, dammit!" post. It really made me feel unwelcome, and it angered me because I had done a search, and my question was slightly different from what I had found in that search.
More importantly, though, asking the same question can get you a different answer. Woody Allen once said that history is made by those who show up. That is absolutely true on ScubaBoard. Your repeated question can get a remarkably different response from the last time it was asked, depending upon who happens to be online to respond. That is especially true in the geographical forums. If you want to get a good recommendation of a dive operator, read a bunch of the threads asking the same question and compare the variety of answers to see what makes the most sense for you.