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Peter Hughes liveaboard, Aug, 2004, by Lester Licht, Ct., USA . Report 2036.
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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	With more than 350 logged dives and 15+ years of diving, I thought I was fairly experienced but I was quite the novice compared to my shipmates on this trip. That was good in that we were allowed a great deal of 'diving freedom' and bad for me at least because I hadn't been in the water for a year and a half and could have used more support from a reliable buddy on this trip. My regulat dive buddy couldn't make it and so I was a solo traveler this time. It was also my 1st liveaboard trip and I must say the wake up-breakfast-dive-snack-dive-lunch-dive-snack-dive-dinner-night dive routine is a wonderful way to go. I loved it!! The group was friendly and congenial. Staff was excellent from captain to DMs to cook etc. The warmed towels and hot chocolate with Baileys Irish Cream option was a fine touch. Cabins were more than adaquate. They provided dive alerts and sausages on a reel which was also a mixed blessing. There was no instruction given with these items and when I decided, at 65 ft. to abort one dive I couldn't get the sausage inflated so I just made a normal ascent with safety stop. Had I gotten the sausage inflated at depth I probably would have gotten bent because I had the reel hooked to my BC and was unprepared to let out the line safely. Now that I understand how the equipment should be used it wouldn't be a problem but it could have been bad news for me at that time. Even something as simple as a sausage & reel can be hazardous without the correct knowledge in how to use it properly. I remember reading about a DM who got bent using this same gear set up when the reel snagged and pulled him up instaed of just letting the line run up to the surface. No harm, no foul but a lesson learned that could have been much more costly to me. Peter Hughes himself joined us for most of the week and we developed quite a bond. He's a fine host and a gentleman. I recommend this trip to any divers who are experienced with strong current drift diving.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Red Sea 3x, Cozumel 4x, Bonaire 3x, Curacao 3x, Costa Rica, Fl Keys 6x.
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	currents
Water Temp	0-0°F / -18--18°C	Wetsuit Thickness	0
Water Visibility	50-120 Ft/ 15-37 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	This was a trip for dive industry professionals (shop owners, dive magazine writers and editors etc.) and travel agents and there was an expectation that all aboard were very experienced. Therefore restrictions were loose, to say the least.
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Peter Hughes liveaboard in Trinidad and Tobago

Peter Hughes liveaboard, Aug, 2004,

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Dive Review of Peter Hughes liveaboard in
Trinidad and Tobago