bicker amongst themselves and try to validate why their resort/shop is better with crazy mathematical equations. .... a bitch fight and try to prove your place is better than all the rest??! - don't get so hung up on petty details
ScubaRafiki, I see you are a boat captain on Cayman, so the basis of the discussion might have been lost on you.
On Cayman, the current dive options are all very similar, not so on Roatan. Because of the tremendous geographical differences in location as well as wind and weather as well as population concentration, this is a real big "petty detail".
In the 1970's and into the Eighties, there was the "standard Seven Mile Beach Cayman" and then there were the divers who went to the East End. Nowadays, and likely in your career span, the East End of Cayman is no longer the last outpost. It is all pretty homogenized and, although the quality of diving is nowhere near as it was in the 70's (what is?) it still attracts a huge crowd of vacationers who want to dive.
So, even on cayman, the dichotomy of available dive operations existed. Due to location and population center, this was a natural occurance, just as it still is on Roatan today. Maybe not in ten years, but today- there are differences.
"Petty details" are what should (and do) interest vacationers. On Roatan, there are places that are
all diving, all the time, and there are other options that are more leisurely. Call them "petty details" if you wish, but when you are expending up to $2000 for a week with air, "petty details" get important.
Unfortunately, a lot gets lost in emotion. With the use of a mathematical breakdown, you can try to quantify some of the "petty details". As I said, though, no one can quantify things like ambiance and atmosphere. On Roatan, either far flung option has understandable equal draw.
It was
not one specific company versus another. The backbone of the discussion was AI vs. ala Carte. Petty details that become extremely important when the bill arrives.
each person has their own oppinion which is based on their criteria. But nevertheless showing (mathematically) that someone is wrong is better in my oppinion than telling them off.
I tried to give facts that might be taken by anyone (The
Vacationing Diver or the
Diving Vacationer) so they could examine those "petty details" and figure out which option is best for them.
MarcauMarc chose to speak of the one operation he knew best, arguably one of the hottest and best run day-dive ops on the West End, Coconut Tree Divers. To speak of what an AI resort had to offer in comparison, I laid out the plan at CoCoView.
In terms of internet communication- yes it is hard to gain a feeling for what is being intoned- it's hard enough to talk in person, much less over a keyboard.
At the same time, when a question is posed (four different times) and one proponent walks away from the thread without providing the simplest answer- the mathematical key... what good is that?
Just providing a simple time line of boat operations for the day dive operation would have made it all crystal clear. But instead, there was deflection and finally "walking away".
Petty details to some, but providing a simple timetable of day-dive boat operations wouldn't be all that hard- I did it for the AI resort.
Have no fear- I think no one will be dissuaded from visiting Roatan from this or any other internet exchange. Some people actually read through posts, others get lost internalizing emotions, others get everything from Trip Advisor.
Are you a
Vacationer who wants some diving, or off on a dive vacation?
That's the point of all of this. Roatan will be
Caymanized soon enough, but until then, there is a petty detail or two to be considered.
