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Was in Grand Cayman for a week of tech diving and have a couple of comments. The good: Divetech, www.divetech.com, and Cobalt Coast Resort, www.cobaltcoast.com, were first-class and I recommend them highly to rec and/or tech divers alike. The IANTD trimix course I took met my expectations, and the instructors at Divetech are heavy on knowledge and light on ego (in contrast to this mailing list). And meeting Tom Mount briefly at Sunset House, teaching a rebreather course, was a pleasure...Tom, you are in great shape for your age, and thanks for a great course. The not-so-good: The diving at Grand Cayman sadly does not compare with her sister islands, Brac and Little. Although very good in general, the wall on Grand pales compared to the wall on Little (but then few if any other walls in the Caribbean can compare to Little). The shallow stuff at Divetech, where most deco time is spent, is sandy, lacking in coral and marine life, and basically dull. A few lettuce-leaf nudibranchs are crawling about, but I expected lots of coral and marine life right up to shore, and that just is not the case. Finally, Grand Cayman has developed exponentially since my last dive trip there, nearly twenty years ago. It has become an island for the very rich, moreso than any Caribbean island I have visited (Cozumel, Roatan, Cayman Brac, Grand Turk, Providenciales, Bonaire, Curacao, Martinique, to name some), and a diver can do much better IMHO. Oh and I'm pretty sure I saw my first Doing-It-Rightist ever on a dive trip, at the resort. The Halcyon BC and steel-springed finstraps were evident, plus the guy was a loud-mouthed, arrogant, obnoxious, self-centered type...yep, that'd be DIR. MJB __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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