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Well, let's be honest. Most dolphins that are caught/ tangled in fishing gear (or navigation lines, for that matter...) are killed. This rescue in Hawaii is exquisitely rare. Around the world, an estimated 1,000 dolphins, whales and porpoises are killed in fishing gear EVERY DAY! This is the...

Most of the lines were removed today. Would really be the right thing to do if the original line-runners were to go and clean up the rest of the mess.

PS: There is also a thread on Dive Matrix: GUE

Attention all certified divers! Diving with a back plate and a long hose, frog-kicking... these are NOT only for technical divers! Come check it out, info is below. I was diving for 15 years before taking GUE Fundamentals, and now I don't see myself diving any other way. It is simply the...

You should see the thread I started. It's funny, "mossman" is clearly an Aggressor employee. Check it out for yourself: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/south-america/319667-aggressor-ii-galapagos-do-not-go.html

Interesting that Mossman has not commented, considering the way he has so vehemently and passionately defended the Aggressor in the other thread. Only confirms my suspicion that he is employed by them (and there is probably a lawsuit involved with this terrible tragedy).

The signs posted all over the sanctuary clearly said, in English and Spanish, to not go on the platform, and to not disturb the turtles. That means you don't go on the platform, and you don't disturb the turtles. After they were hunted nearly to extinction (a man-made problem), that is all the...

Here is Ramiro, trying to be "helpful," so that the tortoise would pick its head up.

:blinking: My my, aren't we angry? Go ahead and have the last word. I would much rather be happy than be right.

My my, aren't we angry? Go ahead and have the last word. I would much rather be happy than be right. ;)

Yeah, it was my sentence, but you took it out of context. His behavior was inappropriate, if you were a female you would feel differently. At one point he told her to leave her boyfriend and move to Ecuador. He stalked her on the boat, deliberately cornering her when she was alone. You were...

Actually I have been to different countries in the middle east, and I would never even expose my shoulders there. You have to be respectful of others. And if in YOUR culture you are used to hitting on women indiscriminately, then you must be respectful of others when they say NO. I like how...

Stichus III, you wrote: It always amazes me that people travel to the far ends of the earth and expect things to be just like they are at home. When traveling abroad we should take into account the cultural differences that exist. The DM (or rather dive guide?) persistently hitting on the...

I sincerely hope that our trip was a fluke. But we will never know how many people were given hush money because we won't hear from them. For me, it was just way too many things to ignore. Apparently that guy Ramiro does not work on the fleet anymore. He is the dive guide that was hitting...

Thanks Robin! I normally would not care about not having satellite or hot tub, but when they advertise these features, and even talk about it in the boat briefing- then of course we are going to expect it. If it was not for so many other things going wrong, I would have never even brought it...

<<Even the whale shark incident is explicable. They're not that easy to spot from the surface until they're right under you. And the captain is likely correct: a few-inches of prop to a 40-foot animal is like a paper cut to you. While it would be great to avoid the whale sharks entirely, the...

First of all these guys were not DMs, second of all, don't offer a service unless you are going to follow through. Thankfully, these conditions are what most of us were used to. But there were less experienced people on the trip, and these dive operations don't screen the divers and weed out...

You ROCK, Ken!!!!!!!

Here is the exact letter I sent to Wayne. I was on the Aggressor 2 in the Galapagos last week (June 11-17, or thereabouts). I am an active diver (DM; originally certified in 1993) and am well traveled, but this was my first real live-aboard experience. I did not really know what to expect, but...

THANK YOU for the info. They have to be good paddle fins, so if the rubber is not as stiff, that won't work. :depressed: What about these? SeaPro Divers Webshop