AOW class

[rossjc]

I spent this last weekend aboard the No Respect around Santa Rosa Is. for my AOW course. Not going into detail on the dives since they were mostly training oriented, but I thought I would tell everyone about some of the highlights.

1. If anyone has the opportunity to join a No Respect dive, the only charterable 6-pack in Ventura, DO IT. Lou the Cap is amazing and the boat is incredible. OUTSTANDING CHARTER!

2. We ended up in a 300+ pod of dolphins on the way back to the mainland, very cool, it was dolphins in every direction. Blew my mind, the ocean is so cool...

3. We saw whales breaching after one of our dives a way off the bow...sheesh...to much entertainment...overstimulated...

Oh yeah, the diving was also incredible!

 

[scottfiji]

josh, sounds nice.. do you know how much the no respect boats cost? how long id it take to get to santa rosa?

I saw a similar pod of dolphins when I went to anacapa out of ventura...and a whale breaching...

we should go together on the no respect sometime....

Scott

 

[BlueDolphin]

Let us know how much the charter was and if you have contact information for NO RESPECT. Thanks!

 

[headhunter]

Let us know how much the charter was and if you have contact information for NO RESPECT. Thanks!

I found some info listed at:

http://www.californiadiveboats.com/

Just scroll down to the boats listed in Ventura. The link to the No Respect website is no good, but there is a phone number and more info there.

Edit: (805) 443-8058 is a good number. I just called the number and spoke to Lou for a little while. After speaking with him, I really look forward to diving with him some time. He's been doing this for about 25 years and does partial pressure blending of Nitrox on the boat. He said that he remembers Ross and that it was certainly a great day.

Christian

 

[rossjc]

I talked with Lou and he basically said that to charter the boat, we need to have a group of 6 set up, he doesn't get the group together for us. He said usually he charges $600 per day for the trip (don't know how firm he is on this, it was really kind of shop talk on the boat).

The trip to the island was kind of a blur, but seems like I remember about 1.5 hours. He has a couple turbo diesels.

 

[headhunter]

I talked with Lou and he basically said that to charter the boat, we need to have a group of 6 set up, he doesn't get the group together for us. He said usually he charges $600 per day for the trip (don't know how firm he is on this, it was really kind of shop talk on the boat).

The trip to the island was kind of a blur, but seems like I remember about 1.5 hours. He has a couple turbo diesels.

When I talked with him he told me the same thing. He said that he wouldn't charge much more to go out for a couple of days though. He would just work it out where you would take care of a couple of meals and so would he.

It all sounds like a very fair deal to me. If you decided to go out diving on Saturday, spend the night on the boat and come back Sunday after diving some more, it would probably turn out to be very reasonable.

Christian