On a recent biz trip to New Zealand, where I was able to meet up with
Sherry and Tim for a fun dinner, I found that my clients also share a
serious love for diving.  It seems that practically everyone dives in
NZ.  One of the guys I was working with sent me this snipped email he
received from his younger brother who is living in the Bahamas and
learning to dive.  The shop he did his first dive with is named Bahama
Divers.  I only mention it so that you will know who to avoid in the
future.  :-)

As I must leave early-early for our dive trip, I'll look forward to
reading any comments you may have upon my return in a week.

Best regards,
Russ

As quoted...
> ...went on my first open water dive yesterday which was a complete
> disaster...went on a bahamas divers boat and there was 45 people on
> board,  total chaos....instructor was a bit of a tosser...they went to
> that reef on the way to rose island and the sail-away was on so there
> were thousand of boats going past making heaps of waves...stupid
> bastards were going past us about 20 feet away in these cigarette boats
> doing about 50mph, dumb b.......s can't believe that they had to go to
> that reef when there are thousands of reefs to choose from !!!it's just
> fucking nuts !!!
> dive went ok,  my bcd and reg leaked more air than i was breathing,
> after 40 mins under water i had only 400 psi of air left....one of the
> girls that was learning with us (a little asian woman) had trouble
> equalizing...she had blood coming out of her nose and ear...it was some
> bad shit mate...the instructor was off swimming around somewhere and
> this woman is motionless banging against a reef...i thought she was
> dead....i grabbed her face and got her to focus on my eyes (she had blood
> coming out of he nose)... i signaled her if she was ok and she replied
> no, she wanted to ascend so my buddy and i took her up....bad aye
> mate...bit of an adventure on your first dive...
>
> when i got back i discovered that sly and lee had broken down in the
> natique so i had top go and rescue them also.....
>
> ok mate...hope all is cool in nz..catch you later
>
> cheers
> bro
>

...mooing divers, buzzing boats, leaky rental gear, absent supervison,
injured divers...just another day in paradise!  :-)