Re: Best Scuba diving ever ... Kauai Hawaii

"Greg Mossman" <mossman@qnet.com> wrote in message
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> On May 22, 5:56 pm, Greg Mossman <moss...@qnet.com> wrote:
>> On May 22, 4:14 pm, llq...@aascuba.com wrote:
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>> > On May 17, 5:05 pm, Mark <markmathe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> > > We just visitedKauaiHawaii and had a GREAT time! We used Aquatic
>> > > Adventures (http://www.aascuba.com) We became PADIscubacertified for
>> > > Open Water and Advanced Open Water. We dove Koloa landing, the
>> > > tunnels
>> > > beach, north shore, south shore, we even had a nightdive! It was
>> > > great! We saw, sharks, monk seals, dragon eels, spotted eagle rays,
>> > > lots of octopus, lots of cool reef fish ... like puffers, orange band
>> > > surgeon fish, etc, etc.
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>> > > Aquatic Adventures were so friendly and helpful ... we will defiantly
>> > > use them again.
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>> > > Jordan was our instructor and Leah took care of all the behind the
>> > > scene things, making for a smooth operation.
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>> > > If you want a greatscubadiving experience inKauai(Hawaii), I say
>> > > call Aquatic Adventures ... 808-645-0927
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>> > > See their awesome website:
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>> > >http://www.aascuba.com
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>> > > Tell them "Mark from Texas" referred you ... maybe they will give me
>> > > a
>> > > freedivenext time we visit.
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>> > > -Mark
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>> > i am amazed at some of the responses i have seen to this post. i will
>> > admit that diving hawaii is not as good as some places you could dive
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>> So you'd admit that Kauai is not "Best Scuba diving ever" as Mark
>> claimed? Then why are you amazed at some of the responses?
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>> > (i grew up diving cozumel and think that it is second to none.
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>> Hardly. You really need to get out more.
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>> > however, since i am the owner of the company that took mark diving, i
>> > have to take offense at some of the disparaging remarks. we regularly
>> > dive koloa landing here in kauai. it is ranked as the #3 shore dive
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>> By who? It's not even the #3 shore dive on shorediving.com.
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>> What many people here objected to were the exhorbitant prices you
>> charge. Normally when one pays an exhorbitant amount to a dive shop
>> in Hawaii, the shop is at least gracious enough to provide a boat ride
>> to the site. What do you do to make up for the lack of a boat?
>> Provide caviar during the surface interval? A 4-course dinner with
>> wine? Spike the tanks with nitrous? Carry the divers into the water
>> from an air-conditioned transport vehicle?
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> Oops. Sorry for stuttering. Google kept claiming there was an error
> trying to post. Apparently the error was an error.

Geez Greg, and you complained when I said something needed repeating. So,
how about all three posts were
good points? ;)