cruise scuba options Grand Cayman, OchoRios

Hi
I am planning to cruise Jamaica and Cayman Islans in late May. I was
wondering I anyone had done both the Shore dive at Eden Rock G.C. the
Carnival shore excursion boat dive, and are ther any good local dive
operators.

I am interested in whats availabe in Jamaica as well.

If I could only pick one of these ports to dive what is the best one?

I am wanting to see lots of color and fish. Please rate these places
for these things


Thanks in advance for any help

Don

"Don" <donmartin2002@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
> I am planning to cruise Jamaica and Cayman Islans in late May. I was
> wondering I anyone had done both the Shore dive at Eden Rock G.C. the
> Carnival shore excursion boat dive, and are ther any good local dive
> operators.
>
> I am interested in whats availabe in Jamaica as well.
>
> If I could only pick one of these ports to dive what is the best one?
>
> I am wanting to see lots of color and fish. Please rate these places
> for these things
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help

Don't bother with Grand Cayman. All the best diving is in Jamaica. Stick
with the ship's excursion as the locals will just want to rip you off. In
fact, you're better off not leaving the ship. Much better off.

Grand Cayman is very dangerous, with an average of 3 cruise ship passengers
killed there every month in gang crossfire and muggings. It's getting near
as dangerous as Cozumel, another destination where I highly advise you to
stay on the ship.

Greg Mossman wrote:

> "Don" <donmartin2002@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:9d9f6851.0403060641.758911e2@posting.google.c om...
>
>>Hi
>>I am planning to cruise Jamaica and Cayman Islans in late May. I was
>>wondering I anyone had done both the Shore dive at Eden Rock G.C. the
>>Carnival shore excursion boat dive, and are ther any good local dive
>>operators.
>>
>>I am interested in whats availabe in Jamaica as well.
>>
>>If I could only pick one of these ports to dive what is the best one?
>>
>>I am wanting to see lots of color and fish. Please rate these places
>>for these things
>>
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any help
>
>
> Don't bother with Grand Cayman. All the best diving is in Jamaica. Stick
> with the ship's excursion as the locals will just want to rip you off. In
> fact, you're better off not leaving the ship. Much better off.
>
> Grand Cayman is very dangerous, with an average of 3 cruise ship passengers
> killed there every month in gang crossfire and muggings. It's getting near
> as dangerous as Cozumel, another destination where I highly advise you to
> stay on the ship.
>
>

I hope he didn't believe you!

Greg Mossman wrote:

> "Don" <donmartin2002@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:9d9f6851.0403060641.758911e2@posting.google.c om...
>
>>Hi
>>I am planning to cruise Jamaica and Cayman Islans in late May. I was
>>wondering I anyone had done both the Shore dive at Eden Rock G.C. the
>>Carnival shore excursion boat dive, and are ther any good local dive
>>operators.
>>
>>I am interested in whats availabe in Jamaica as well.
>>
>>If I could only pick one of these ports to dive what is the best one?
>>
>>I am wanting to see lots of color and fish. Please rate these places
>>for these things
>>
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any help
>
>
> Don't bother with Grand Cayman. All the best diving is in Jamaica. Stick
> with the ship's excursion as the locals will just want to rip you off. In
> fact, you're better off not leaving the ship. Much better off.
>
> Grand Cayman is very dangerous, with an average of 3 cruise ship passengers
> killed there every month in gang crossfire and muggings. It's getting near
> as dangerous as Cozumel, another destination where I highly advise you to
> stay on the ship.
>
>


<half giggle>

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On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 07:32:20 -0800, "Greg Mossman" <mossman@qnet.com>
wrote:

>"Don" <donmartin2002@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:9d9f6851.0403060641.758911e2@posting.google. com...
>> Hi
>> I am planning to cruise Jamaica and Cayman Islans in late May. I was
>> wondering I anyone had done both the Shore dive at Eden Rock G.C. the
>> Carnival shore excursion boat dive, and are ther any good local dive
>> operators.
>>
>> I am interested in whats availabe in Jamaica as well.
>>
>> If I could only pick one of these ports to dive what is the best one?
>>
>> I am wanting to see lots of color and fish. Please rate these places
>> for these things
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help
>
>Don't bother with Grand Cayman. All the best diving is in Jamaica. Stick
>with the ship's excursion as the locals will just want to rip you off. In
>fact, you're better off not leaving the ship. Much better off.
>
>Grand Cayman is very dangerous, with an average of 3 cruise ship passengers
>killed there every month in gang crossfire and muggings. It's getting near
>as dangerous as Cozumel, another destination where I highly advise you to
>stay on the ship.
>

Ya know, for half a second, I almost believed you

Going to CZM in April for a four day weekend. Ah, warm blue water.
--
dillon

Life is always short, but only you can make it sweet

"Joe English" <jenglish@accessusn.net> wrote in message
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> I hope he didn't believe you!

Why?

"Greg Mossman" <mossman@qnet.com> wrote in message
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> Don't bother with Grand Cayman. All the best diving is in Jamaica.
Stick
> with the ship's excursion as the locals will just want to rip you off. In
> fact, you're better off not leaving the ship. Much better off.
>
> Grand Cayman is very dangerous, with an average of 3 cruise ship
passengers
> killed there every month in gang crossfire and muggings. It's getting
near
> as dangerous as Cozumel, another destination where I highly advise you to
> stay on the ship.
>
Right as far as it goes, but you didn't mention the problems with drugs and
prostitutes. Last time I went VD was rife on the island, the only upside
being that you could buy antibiotics from the gang who hung out on the beach
in front of the hotel. As for the diving, cruise passengers especially are
treated like dogs and taken to barren sites where they are allowed to go to
100 ft for 20 minutes and 60 for 30, but there's nothing to see except the
garbage left by the last cruise ship crowd. Stay on the ship and have a
second go at the buffet, I say.

Greg how was you're trip to GC BTW?

Greg Mossman wrote:

> "Joe English" <jenglish@accessusn.net> wrote in message
> newsZqdnb_Y3LcGl9fdRVn-sw@accessus.net...
>
>
>>I hope he didn't believe you!
>
>
> Why?
>
>
Because

On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 09:12:54 -0600, Joe English
<jenglish@accessusn.net> wrote:


>>>I hope he didn't believe you!

>> Why?

>Because

It's probably all true. You get a lot of spin from Chamber of
Commerce types in the islands. On Usenet, as we all know, we get the
unvarnished truth.

The same thing is true for the barrier islands of South Carolina -
Kiawah, Edisto Island, etc. - lots of rape, pillage, thievery, adultry
and heavy drinking. But unless you were clued in here, you wouldn't
know about it. Caveat emptor.
-HW "Skip" Weldon
Columbia, SC

"Greg Mossman" <mossman@qnet.com> wrote in message
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> Don't bother with Grand Cayman. All the best diving is in Jamaica. Stick
> with the ship's excursion as the locals will just want to rip you off. In
> fact, you're better off not leaving the ship. Much better off.
>
> Grand Cayman is very dangerous, with an average of 3 cruise ship
passengers
> killed there every month in gang crossfire and muggings. It's getting
near
> as dangerous as Cozumel, another destination where I highly advise you to
> stay on the ship.

Yikes.

Normally I'm not the sort to share confidential e-mails on a public
newsgroup, but this is just to good to let slide.

Sorry Tom, but you deserve it for displaying an incredible level of humor
impairment:


-----Original Message-----
From: [deleted]@aol.com [mailto:[deleted]@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 2:16 PM
To: mossman@qnet.com
Subject: Cayman Diving

Greg-

I was shocked to see your post on the web board re: diving in Cayman, and
crime? Where did this information come from my friend.

No, the island is not "perfect safe" like 15 years ago, but when you
consider 700+ murders a year in Jamaica, and you are telling me to stay on
the boat in Cayman? Whow!

You might be the first (and only) person I've heard say a "kind word" about
diving in Jamaica.

Continued safe diving-

Thomas (Tom) K. Shropshire
Company Supervisor
Oceans International/Cayman Aggressor IV
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands BWI
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