Anthony's Key Resort, Roatan

Any one have any experience of AKR in Roatan - we are thinking of visiting
in February next year and would appreciate any comments/tips!

Thanks

are they still around? I spent a week diving there years ago.

Anthony's Key Resort is the only resort I've ever seen in the Caribbean that
looked like the South Seas. A pretty place and some good diving around
there...but they had this idoiotic policy at the time -- making experienced
certified divers go through a beginners routine -- I thought it was demeaning
at the time. They insisted that you go down in the water -- take off your
face mask and put it back on and clear it.

I wonder if they are still "carrying on" like that? However, it could be [at
the time] that they were attracting inexperienced divers and were trying to
"play it safe" ...who knows?

Kevin Rutterford wrote:

> Any one have any experience of AKR in Roatan - we are thinking of visiting
> in February next year and would appreciate any comments/tips!
>
> Thanks

Thus spake Daniel Kessler <dkessler@pop.cybernex.net> :

>are they still around? I spent a week diving there years ago.
>
>Anthony's Key Resort is the only resort I've ever seen in the Caribbean that
>looked like the South Seas. A pretty place and some good diving around
>there...but they had this idoiotic policy at the time -- making experienced
>certified divers go through a beginners routine -- I thought it was demeaning
>at the time. They insisted that you go down in the water -- take off your
>face mask and put it back on and clear it.

CoCo View did that last time we were there, but that was before they
changed hands.

I've seen lots of places ask for log books. Which is the only reason
I keep one these days.

>
>I wonder if they are still "carrying on" like that? However, it could be [at
>the time] that they were attracting inexperienced divers and were trying to
>"play it safe" ...who knows?
>
>Kevin Rutterford wrote:
>
>> Any one have any experience of AKR in Roatan - we are thinking of visiting
>> in February next year and would appreciate any comments/tips!
>>
>> Thanks
--
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"Daniel Kessler" <dkessler@pop.cybernex.net> wrote in message
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> are they still around? I spent a week diving there years ago.
>
> Anthony's Key Resort is the only resort I've ever seen in the Caribbean
> that
> looked like the South Seas. A pretty place and some good diving around
> there...but they had this idoiotic policy at the time -- making
> experienced
> certified divers go through a beginners routine -- I thought it was
> demeaning
> at the time. They insisted that you go down in the water -- take off your
> face mask and put it back on and clear it.

I haven't stayed there, but when I was practically "next door" at BIBR, we
drove through Anthony's every day on the way to the dive sites. I can
definitely state that it doesn't look like the South Seas, whatever those
are. They had an entire marina of dive boats and lots and lots of rooms.
It seemed very busy and crowded.

Greg Mossman wrote: I can definitely state that it doesn't look like the South
Seas, whatever those

> are.

and where in the South Seas have you dived? Tahiti, Fiji, Tonga or Vanuatu
perhaps. The curious want to know.

"Daniel Kessler" <dkessler@pop.cybernex.net> wrote in message
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> are they still around? I spent a week diving there years ago.
>
> Anthony's Key Resort is the only resort I've ever seen in the Caribbean
> that
> looked like the South Seas. A pretty place and some good diving around
> there...but they had this idoiotic policy at the time -- making
> experienced
> certified divers go through a beginners routine -- I thought it was
> demeaning
> at the time. They insisted that you go down in the water -- take off your
> face mask and put it back on and clear it.

Well, I have over a thousand dives, how many do you have?

Maybe 700 of mine are solo.

Many of mine are in zero visibility or in near freezing water.

Overhead.

If some other, you know, -vacation diver- dies on your dive,

Your diving day (at least one) will be ruined.

Be humble, and thankful, that they check.

That's what makes a -safe-, and -professional-, operation.

If -I- don't mind, and I don't, why should you?

> I wonder if they are still "carrying on" like that?

Because they know the type?

> However, it could be [at
> the time] that they were attracting inexperienced divers and were trying
> to
> "play it safe" ...who knows?
>
> Kevin Rutterford wrote:
>
>> Any one have any experience of AKR in Roatan - we are thinking of
>> visiting
>> in February next year and would appreciate any comments/tips!
>>
>> Thanks
>

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:47:51 -0400, "Douglas W. \"Popeye\" Frederick"
<Popeye@finalprotectivefire.com> wrote:

> Many of mine are in zero visibility or in near freezing water.

Damn, that sounds like fun!

(no wonder you were solo.) <G>

Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick wrote

> If some other, you know, -vacation diver- dies on your dive,
> Your diving day (at least one) will be ruined.
> Be humble, and thankful, that they check.

No need to check. PADI certified divers are all safe enough. So is everyone
certified by other agencies. Otherwise, the bodies would be stacking up all
over the place, and they're not.

"Daniel Kessler" <dkessler@pop.cybernex.net> wrote in message
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> are they still around? I spent a week diving there years ago.

Yes and have a very good reputation as well . . for tourist divers that like
an all-inclusive.

> Anthony's Key Resort is the only resort I've ever seen in the Caribbean
that
> looked like the South Seas. A pretty place and some good diving around
> there...but they had this idoiotic policy at the time -- making
experienced
> certified divers go through a beginners routine -- I thought it was
demeaning
> at the time. They insisted that you go down in the water -- take off your
> face mask and put it back on and clear it.

I don't like to get called on for that, but I sure do like for some others
I've seen have to do it. That being the case, I'll suck it up when called
upon.

> I wonder if they are still "carrying on" like that? However, it could be
[at
> the time] that they were attracting inexperienced divers and were trying
to
> "play it safe" ...who knows?

Safety . .hmm. . . hopefully, this particular requirement goes hand in hand
with oxygen on the boat, etc. And in that regard, Anthony's has the
chamber, the only chamber on the island. Of course, anyone that needs it
has access no matter who they dive with.


>
> Kevin Rutterford wrote:
>
> > Any one have any experience of AKR in Roatan - we are thinking of
visiting
> > in February next year and would appreciate any comments/tips!
> >
> > Thanks
>

viewing videos don't count! You need to get out more.

Greg Mossman wrote:

> "Daniel Kessler" <dkessler@pop.cybernex.net> wrote in message
> news:45352FDE.3A661C98@pop.cybernex.net...
> >
> > and where in the South Seas have you dived? Tahiti, Fiji, Tonga or
> > Vanuatu
> > perhaps. The curious want to know.
>
> Moorea and several of the Tuamotus, and I've seen plenty of photos and video
> from various Fijian islands.