This is Lee, one of the owners of Enomis Divers, and I would just like to clear up a few issues about our dive operation that Roatanman was a little unclear or just wrong about in this post of his. First he stated that Scuba Board is populated by divers and for divers and that fact is indeed true. But to say that you should never rely on Trip Advisor for anything other than trip advice is absolutely wrong, because the comments left on trip advisor about the the service that dive shops on Roatan provide and the quality of that service are also made by divers for the general knowledge of other divers wanting to visit Roatan. A lot of the dive shops on Roatan have gushing comments, and the comments left about Enomis Divers are the opinions of our customers.
Roatanman further said that I migrated from Margarita Island, Venezuela after taking my IDC on Utila, giving the impression that I am relatively new to the dive business. Well, I became a scuba instructor in 1978, and crossed over to PADI about 3 years ago. I have been in the dive business since that time, I have over 5000 dives, and at the age of 64 I am still an active IDC Staff Instructor teaching and diving 3 to 4 days a week, although I have had to hire 2 instructors recently to take some of the load off my shoulders. True, I have not made too many posts on this board, but that is because I am very busy trying to run 3 dive centers far away from each other, and don't have much time to spend making endless posts on scuba forums. It is not because I think most cruise ship customers never make it to Scuba Board as Roatanman alleges.
Then, Roatanman alludes that we have a lack of dive boat imagery. Take a look at the websites of our dive operations. You will find lots of pictures of our dive boats on Margarita Island. We own a 32 foot Island Hopper, and a 29 foot Mako to take our divers out diving. And on our dive center on the Ola Esmeralda cruise ship, we have a 12 passenger dive boat which is transported inside the cruise ship so our divers can dive at places where there are no harbors. Here on Roatan, we do rent a 24 foot and a 27 foot or so Panga at the present time, because we have not decided yet on whether to buy another 32 foot island Hopper custom made dive boat for our dive center here on Roatan, or to just buy a local panga. And our boat captains/owners make lots of money while we are deciding this issue and renting their boats.
We, as some other dive shops on Roatan, do not list prices on our websites, because of the bad habit of some dive shops here to try to undercut their competion. But if you go to our cruise ship webpage, you will see prices clearly stated for our dives. Roatanman said that there is an odd reference to how much our car service may or may not cost. Our taxi drivers charge $20 round trip per person, but for groups of 5 or more the price can be negotiated. That is not vague or odd in my opinion. We generally do 3 dives a day, 9 am, 11 am, and 2 pm, although we are flexible in that regard. We find that we can do 2 dives with our cruise ship customers with no problems and that we can get them back to their ship with time to spare. Roatanman insinuates that cruise ship visitors seems to be our main corporate focus. He is wrong once again. Our main focus is to provide our diving customers with high quality service and equipment, have small dive groups and classes sizes for more intimate and individual instruction. We do not believe in cattle boat dives. We would rather put 6 divers on 2 boats each, then 12 on one boat. We have a good diver base of returning customers who vacation here on Roatan and who willl not dive with anyone else but us. Our dive shop on Margarita Island has no cruise ship customers at all, since cruise ships do not visit that island. And our dive center on the cruise ship Ola Esmeralda, handles mostly divers living in South American countries. Well thats it, just wanted to set the record straight. Lee, Enomis Divers Roatan