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Dive Review of Rendezvous Dive Adventures in
Canada

Rendezvous Dive Adventures: "Good, but not great", Oct, 2019,

by Terramoto, bc, canada (Reviewer Reviewer 4 reports with 4 Helpful votes). Report 11182.

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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

Accommodations 3 stars Food 4 stars
Service and Attitude 4 stars Environmental Sensitivity N/A
Dive Operation 3 stars Shore Diving N/A
Snorkeling N/A
Value for $$ N/A
Beginners 4 stars
Advanced 4 stars
Comments The bedrooms are quite cramped and w/o a closet, clothes drawers or enough clothes hooks to hang your clothes we left most of our clothes in our suitcase or clothes bag and shoved it under the bed. All 10 guests have to share two bathrooms with only one shower. There is a camera room but no heated drysuit room or other heated room to dry out damp or wet clothing, hoods, glove, etc. The operator will try to run the clothes dryer when their air compressor is running, in case you need to dry out an undergarment or some other item. The air compressor only runs in the evening when they fill the tanks. A larger heated room would have been nice and more convenient for divers in order to dry out wet clothes, drysuits and hoods.

The food was very good and the operator/s (Cathy and Peter) are very friendly, and knowledgeable about the local aquatic life.

The dive boat was quite crowded with 10 divers. And with 10 divers there is no room for a camera rinse bucket, or even a small bucket to rinse your mask before hitting the water. Even a very small mask rinse bucket would have been quite handy for those of us with thick and large drysuit gloves. Also, to use the Head or for that matter the cabin of the dive boat one must remove any wet clothing ie. drysuit.

Some dives were limited to 50 minutes and/or less, which is not good when you only have a weekend to make a handful of dives. No reasonable explanation was given.
Websites Rendezvous Dive Adventures   

Reporter and Travel

Dive Experience 501-1000 dives
Where else diving Roatan; Key Largo, FL; Japan - Okinawa; Hawaii; BC - Canada; Komodo , Indonesia - Bali, Indonesia - Raja Ampat
Closest Airport Getting There Take a BC Ferry to Nanaimo, and then drive to Port Alberni where the Dive Operator will pick you up by boat and take you to their lodge which is 2 1/2 hours away during calm weather.

Dive Conditions

Weather sunny, rainy Seas calm
Water Temp 48-55°F / 9-13°C Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility 30-55 Ft/ 9-17 M

Dive Policy

Dive own profile ?
Enforced diving restrictions Dives were restricted to a maximum of 60 minutes. On a couple of occasions for unknown reasons the dive time was restricted to 50 minutes and once to 45 minutes.
Liveaboard? no Nitrox Available?

What I Saw

Sharks None Mantas None
Dolphins None Whale Sharks None
Turtles None Whales None
Corals N/A Tropical Fish N/A
Small Critters N/A Large Fish N/A
Large Pelagics N/A

Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

Subject Matter 3 stars Boat Facilities 1 stars
Overall rating for UWP's 3 stars Shore Facilities 3 stars
UW Photo Comments Spacious camera room on shore with ample electrical plugs for charging stations. No rinse bucket on the dive boat.
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