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Blue Water Divers and Watersports/Royal Caribbean Cruise, Jun, 2008, by Jon, MD, USA ( Reviewer 4 reports). Report 4288.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	I set up this two tank dive as an excursion with Royal Carribean. Price was $150 for a two tank dive. This included transportation to and from dive shop. Decided to go this way because excursion guarnteed that the cruise ship would not leave port without you. The shop is located in a small harbor cove. The shop is adeqaute size and offers rental gear. Gear is a normally high bermudian price. Boat was a standard size dive boat. Dive master advised that boat was Coast Guard approved and had O2, life jackets, and proper radio equiptment. Dive briefing was done before we left the dock. DM was direct and to the point, with some humor mixed in. Check off sheet was completed going in and coming out of the water. First dive was on patch reef in approx. 40 feet of water. Seas were calm and vis was about 50 to 75 feet. NO BIG FISH at all, NO grouper or barcuda. DM expained that heavy fishing took place for years. There were a ton of Sgt. Majors. I did see an octupus about the sixe of a basketball. Got to see him change colors, swim along the bottom and crawl the coral head. Dive was lesiurly paced and non guided. Second dive was on the wreck MONTANA. This was pretty cool. It is an old paddle wheel steamer that was a highly sucessful civil war blockade runner. Sank in Dec. 1863 on a shallow reef. She lies in 30 feet of water and is partially intact. Navigating the wreck was no problem and had little to no current. Partially intact, gave me the oppurtunity to swim into the ship in some areas. Huge steam boiler and pddle wheel frames vissible. Wreck had alot of growth, with an abundance of small fish. Bonus, very close to the Montana was another wreck that ran aground trying to avoid the Montana. This wreck was full of concrete and had a ton of glass bottles. You can easily explore both wreck due to the shallow depths. You could easily make out the pillars of concrete that have now become artifical reefs. Glass bottles cover the ocean floor and make for good photo ops. However, all of Bermuda is a protected area therefore, the bottles can't be removed from the sea. All in all, plesurable easy begginner dives. The boat crew was not very attentitive to expeirence divers but I think that is because they had enough "cruise ship" divers to worry about. Boat crew was not pushy about tips and provided a small tip jar in the shop after the trip. Bonus shop provided certificate of wreck, sponsered by Bermuda wreck diving program.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Riveria Mia, Cozumel, Florida Keys, Morehead City, Bahamas.
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm, no currents
Water Temp	80-80°F / 27-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-75 Ft/ 15-23 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	1 hr time limit, back on the boat 500PSI.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Boat had small camera bucket. Dive Master did give camera bucket instructions during briefing. Boat was not set up with a dry table, but understandable being a day boat.

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Dive Review of Blue Water Divers and Watersports/Royal Caribbean Cruise in Bermuda

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Dive Review of Blue Water Divers and Watersports/Royal Caribbean Cruise in
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