It is really good to see that the things that make sense in diving are
being quickly adopted by thinking people, and that the influence of the
idiots is quickly waning. Pina and I were very happy with Gary's operation.
He has a perfect boat, his partner and captain is squared away, his buddies
are squared away, his gas setup and equipment is first class, and he is
running a stroke-free operation.

Hawaii is a place where you can dive all the time, and it shows in the
innate skills of the divers we met.  Amazingly, in a place where the water
can be hundreds, if not thousands of feet deep right up against the shore
in places, and the vis is good and temp moderate, you do not see the deep
air nonsense and accidents occurring. It appears that Hawaii has a higher
order of inhabitants and visitors than are found elsewhere. I noticed that
people do not even lock their cars or put the tops up on their convertibles
when they leave them, the cops drive their own cars rather than police
cars, and everyone seems quite proud of doing things in a proper fashion.

The fishing is awesome, and the boats perfect. those people took as much
pride in doing it right on the rip as Gary's people did in doing it right
in diving. I fished on a Merritt boat , built right here in Pompano Beach,
that looked like it just came out of Merritt's yard, with all the best
equipment and squared away crew.

The island itself is a wonder. Pina and I drove all around it one day and
went to the volcano at night on the 4th - spectacular, better than
fireworks. This is the perfect place to either go for vacation, diving ,
training, or as a halfway point to the other pacific islands. We stayed in
Gary's condo on the beach, where you hear the surf breaking all the time
and people are out in front surfing all day long. His 'classroom" is on a
mountain looking over all of Kona and the Pacific - a must see.


-----Original Message-----
From: Gard Wilson [mailto:garry@ko*.co*]
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 3:17 AM
To: QUEST@gu*.co*; Jim Thompson; Tech Diver List
Cc: Keith Keizer
Subject: Gavins


Jim/Quest/Tech Divers:

George and Pina joined us in Kona, Hawaii for several days of diving - he
graciously came over to train us to service Gavin Scooters for the Pacific
Islands.  We dove for several days with them on Gavins and they are very,
very good divers.  They are also really nice people and a fountain of
information.  We have learned a lot about Gavins, safety issues, equipment,
decompression and diving in general - we will be making some changes to our
operation.
George also gave a talk on equipment, DIR principles and decompression which
was well received by local divers.
We will be putting pictures from George¹s visit on our web site shortly for
those interested.

George, do you have any comments you would like to add?

Garry

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