We like all of our subscribers, except those that ruin dive
trips and use our name to threaten dive operators. Good subscribers
Barbara Shiveley and Ken Scott (La Plata, MD) ran
into a few bad ones on their dive trip with Sea Eye Diving in
Grand Turk last June.
“A group of men from a dive club in the South arrived with
all their toys, including underwater scooters,” says Shiveley. “They were told the boat, a little Carolina skiff for eight divers,
wasn’t large enough to accommodate the scooters but they
dragged them aboard anyway. Their buzzing around annoyed
other divers, scared the fish we were trying to watch and photograph,
and generally ruined otherwise lovely dives.
“On top of this, they actually threatened the operator by
saying if they were not treated really well, they would write bad
things about the operation to Undercurrent!”
We haven’t yet got any bad reviews about Sea Eye Diving
from scooter-wielding divers but if we do, we’ll cancel their
subscriptions.