Florida diving

I may be spoiled, but do Florida divers seem rude?
I had made reservations with Horizon Divers. Their boat was broke so
they arranged us with Ocean Divers. We boarded last and we kept hearing,
"All these tanks are reserved. That seat is reserved"
There were a lot of divers on the boat with an attitude that they
weren't going to get their share of something.
There was plenty of room and plenty of tanks. I guess they wanted to
establish some kind of territorial boundary and pecking order.
I asked when we should get back on board and was given the answer at 500
psi. The dive was max 35 feet. I can stay down over an hour at 500 psi.
I thought I had better check back with the boat at 45 minutes and people
were complaining that I was slowing down the dive.
I thought diving was supposed to be a relaxed, enjoy the view thing.
This is not the first experience with Florida divers. When in Cayman,
which is very relaxed and civilized, I can usually tell who the Yankees
and Floridians are.


Too slow, I guess.

I have not dove with Horizon or Ocean, only Rainbowreef in Key Largo, and
have never had a bad experience. On the shallow dives they like to
keep them close to an hour, but no one ever seemed to bitch.

I wanted to do somethign different, so am in west palm this weekend, and
just had a great morning trip with pura vida, the diving was just as nice as
key largo, but a lot less people.

-Rick




On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Dmitriy V Leybovich wrote:

>
>
> I may be spoiled, but do Florida divers seem rude?
> I had made reservations with Horizon Divers. Their boat was broke so
> they arranged us with Ocean Divers. We boarded last and we kept hearing,
> "All these tanks are reserved. That seat is reserved"
> There were a lot of divers on the boat with an attitude that they
> weren't going to get their share of something.
> There was plenty of room and plenty of tanks. I guess they wanted to
> establish some kind of territorial boundary and pecking order.
> I asked when we should get back on board and was given the answer at 500
> psi. The dive was max 35 feet. I can stay down over an hour at 500 psi.
> I thought I had better check back with the boat at 45 minutes and people
> were complaining that I was slowing down the dive.
> I thought diving was supposed to be a relaxed, enjoy the view thing.
> This is not the first experience with Florida divers. When in Cayman,
> which is very relaxed and civilized, I can usually tell who the Yankees
> and Floridians are.
>
>
> Too slow, I guess.
>
>
>

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