Sorry for your wet and sick trip to such a great place. As far as the sickness, it is hard to say what caused it but I doubt it would be the lobster, the majority of the people staying at the resort would have eaten lobster that night and with only a few getting sick would make me think of other causes. Could it been something like the lettuce? tomatoes? both which could have been grown in bad water. Did it just effect only people from your group? Was something purchased and consumed within your group? What about other places you may heve eaten? Most food illnesses do not happen that quickly. Did your group go to dinner? Did you eat somewhere on your dolphin trip? There are so many factors that come into play when discussing food illness. Unfortunately you will probably never know. You need to ask many questions, look into all of the answers and then you still may never know!
Well, no - she probly doesn't have all of the answers, but I suspect that the 7 people in her group compared experiences well enough to narrow it down without our second guessing. Food poisoning can indeed come on quickly, and even tho
"majority of the people staying at the resort would have eaten lobster that night and with only a few getting sick," that could have happened because only a few lobsters had been left out too long, prepared insufficiently, water. They aren't all stored in the same tank then cooked in the same pot at the same time, etc. Yeah, well - it could have been some other dish, and I do avoid fresh salads traveling, so it could have been the lobster, or other foods, or beverages or whatever.
See
Food poisoning - MayoClinic.com including that it affects different people differently even:
"Illness is not inevitable after you eat contaminated food. The effects depend on the contaminant, the degree of contamination, your age and your health."
and
Disease Listing, Foodborne Illness, General Information | CDC Bacterial, Mycotic Diseases
and
Food Poisoning Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment on eMedicineHealth.com.
I'm sure that it is not a common problem at CCV at all or it would be well known. The resort is not my choice when I go, but it is popular with many with a good reputation. Such can happen anywhere, as the CDC says in the above linked article:
"...76 million cases of foodborne disease occur each year in the United States..."
Still, sad that it happened to Maggy and her friends. I can see why she wanted to get back to the US ASAP, and I probly would have done the same escape she did, then not bothered to find a doc in Atlanta either if I felt some better by then.
Maggy, thank you for the trip report. I'm hoping to be in roatan at the end of february. It seems like they do less trips per day at CCV with more time for other activities or just relaxing. Sorry you had the rainy weather but seems you got in a few good dives anyway.
I've never dived with them and they do it a little differently than the resort I use, but their sites quotes:
"2 boat dive trips daily including 1 tank at selected site and optional drop-off wall dive (up to 4 boat tanks daily)" plus unlimited shore diving. I was confused on that at first but think that means that they do 2 trips/day, 1 tank dived at the selected site, then and on return approach you can drop off before the boat docks to dive their front wall on the way in.
