Aruba -Dive Aruba operator?

Hi , has any one used Dive Aruba-with -Clive Paula-.
so far he is the only dive operator in Aruba who does 60 min or more
dive so I would like to go with him but was just checking if any other
divers had herad or had any 1st hand experience.
Thank you

"Daniel Kessler" <dkessler@pop.cybernex.net> wrote in message
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> I've never heard that Aruba was a place to go diving and is mostly a big
> gambling den. If you're making a trip to the Netherland Antilles for
> diving, shouldn't you be going to Bon Air?

Maybe she's going with non-divers. Maybe diving isn't the entire point of
her trip and she'd otherwise find Bon Air [sic] boring. Maybe Bon Air [sic]
is a pain in the ass to get to. Maybe Aruba has some wrecks to check out
and she's already been to Bon Air [sic] 118 times.

I lost $200 in a gambling den of Bon Air [sic]. Plus it's completely
crime-ridden and I had a guy once smash a bottle in a bar and try to kill me
with it, after he had already tried to kill me with a barstool. Aruba, on
the other hand, is a nice safe place unless you're an 18-year-old girl.

in that case, maybe she's an 18-year old girl looking for adventure or perhaps
some risque sex in the wee hours of the morning...

After this current incident, I think Aruba is going to take quite a few hits
with its tourism.

from reading your travails in Bon Air -- I'm glad my two trips to Bon Air are
behind me..and as you say, it is not the easiest place to ge to...

Greg Mossman wrote:

> "Daniel Kessler" <dkessler@pop.cybernex.net> wrote in message
> news:42AED1FF.2C3DEBF3@pop.cybernex.net...
> > I've never heard that Aruba was a place to go diving and is mostly a big
> > gambling den. If you're making a trip to the Netherland Antilles for
> > diving, shouldn't you be going to Bon Air?
>
> Maybe she's going with non-divers. Maybe diving isn't the entire point of
> her trip and she'd otherwise find Bon Air [sic] boring. Maybe Bon Air [sic]
> is a pain in the ass to get to. Maybe Aruba has some wrecks to check out
> and she's already been to Bon Air [sic] 118 times.
>
> I lost $200 in a gambling den of Bon Air [sic]. Plus it's completely
> crime-ridden and I had a guy once smash a bottle in a bar and try to kill me
> with it, after he had already tried to kill me with a barstool. Aruba, on
> the other hand, is a nice safe place unless you're an 18-year-old girl.

I dove with Clive last year - he was great.
Jane

"sara D" <dnurse1@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:19703-42AE4D09-178@storefull-3238.bay.webtv.net...
> Hi , has any one used Dive Aruba-with -Clive Paula-.
> so far he is the only dive operator in Aruba who does 60 min or more
> dive so I would like to go with him but was just checking if any other
> divers had herad or had any 1st hand experience.
> Thank you
>



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On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:48:19 +0000, Daniel Kessler wrote:

> I've never heard that Aruba was a place to go diving and is mostly a big
> gambling den. If you're making a trip to the Netherland Antilles for
> diving, shouldn't you be going to Bon Air?

Then presumably you've never heard of the wreck of the Antilla, a 400 ft
long WWII wreck in only 16m of water?

Jason

--
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including Aruba, Cuba, Grand Bahama, Barbados, St Lucia and Mexico

"Daniel Kessler" <dkessler@pop.cybernex.net> wrote in message
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> in that case, maybe she's an 18-year old girl looking for adventure or
> perhaps
> some risque sex in the wee hours of the morning...

It's a lot safer to give them my address and phone number. Real warm here
right now, much less humidity than the tropics, I have a pool, topless
sunbathing is allowed, and all drinks are on the house for lovely maidens.
Risque sex is optional, but strongly encouraged.

> After this current incident, I think Aruba is going to take quite a few
> hits
> with its tourism.

Which means that it will become an economical place to visit.

> from reading your travails in Bon Air -- I'm glad my two trips to Bon Air
> are
> behind me..and as you say, it is not the easiest place to ge to...

I enjoyed the place and wouldn't mind another go at it, since the diving
conditions on my one trip were less than optimal. But I can practically be
in Southeast Asia by the time I get to Bonaire from L.A. and there's
certainly no comparing Bonaire with the better spots of the western Pacific.

Hi- I am going with 3 non-divers .
Yes I have been to Bonaire and Curacao.
Yes, I do perfer liveaboards as well as South Pacfic-Indonesia as well.
thanks

Absolutely..... the Western Pacific is the place to be -- right now, Fiji is
balmy and cool and perfect weather for "suiting up" in the Austral
winter....without working up a sweat... and doesn't have Tahiti's ever high
humidity! And the people -- I used to say that when you got off the plane --
you felt the waves of love coming to you!

And as for wrecks, they don't interest me too much any more, once I did Truk and
then again-- I guess I'm spoiled -- I treated myself to five different trips
over the years to dive the USS Cooledge in Vanuatu. The reason for that
was.....on the first trip, I didn't do too well with depths -- sucking too much
air.

But believe it or not, over time.... I built up an ability to go deeper and not
suck so much air. One time I went all the way down to the boiler room and came
out through the ships funnels, just like in the movie, "The Poseidon Adventure."

Then another time I went down to the swimming pool at 230 feet (70 meters) and
seemed to do fine and got one hell of a buzz and had the dive master photograph
me with my hands on the ladder into the pool as if I were climbing out as if I
had gone for a "dip."

But it wasn't until the 2nd trip that I was able to go visit "the Lady," in the
smoking lounge at 140 feet. One of Alan Power's assistants or helpers had a
kind of u/w "feather duster" he used to wipe off any "dirt" off the metal
portrait--prior to the arrival of the divers, just like a chamber-maid would do
in feather dusting off the furniture when company was expected.

There's nothing like diving the luxury liner, the Cooledge. A lot of the
flooring has "dropped out" but the ceiling at the top of the ship is all stained
glass of an irridescent blue hue and the light refracting down into the depths
reminded me of "cathedrals in France."

On one trip, prior to my arrival, Santo had experienced an Earthquake but in
this part of the far Pacific, with the subduction zone, the "quake" was deep
within the Earth's crust and didn't do too much damage -- but it did cause a
wall in the ship to collapse and exposed a part of the structure that had
previously not been seen by divers.

While decompressing, Alan Power had a large grouper named "Boris" who used to
hang out where Alan had buildt an artifical reef. It seemed like there was
always something going on that was entertaining even while you were waiting
around decompressing.

Greg Mossman wrote:

> "Daniel Kessler" <dkessler@pop.cybernex.net> wrote in message
> news:42AF338C.1B0F9617@pop.cybernex.net...
>
> > in that case, maybe she's an 18-year old girl looking for adventure or
> > perhaps
> > some risque sex in the wee hours of the morning...
>
> It's a lot safer to give them my address and phone number. Real warm here
> right now, much less humidity than the tropics, I have a pool, topless
> sunbathing is allowed, and all drinks are on the house for lovely maidens.
> Risque sex is optional, but strongly encouraged.
>
> > After this current incident, I think Aruba is going to take quite a few
> > hits
> > with its tourism.
>
> Which means that it will become an economical place to visit.
>
> > from reading your travails in Bon Air -- I'm glad my two trips to Bon Air
> > are
> > behind me..and as you say, it is not the easiest place to ge to...
>
> I enjoyed the place and wouldn't mind another go at it, since the diving
> conditions on my one trip were less than optimal. But I can practically be
> in Southeast Asia by the time I get to Bonaire from L.A. and there's
> certainly no comparing Bonaire with the better spots of the western Pacific.

I dove with Clive last year - he was great.
Jane

"sara D" <dnurse1@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:19703-42AE4D09-178@storefull-3238.bay.webtv.net...
> Hi , has any one used Dive Aruba-with -Clive Paula-.
> so far he is the only dive operator in Aruba who does 60 min or more
> dive so I would like to go with him but was just checking if any other
> divers had herad or had any 1st hand experience.
> Thank you
>



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