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Liveaboard, At LastChris CollingsParmesan – check; olive oil – check; liveaboard – check. WTF? Let's try that again without the deli stuff. Cheese, lard, liveaboard. Yep, still there; we booked our first liveaboard trip and needed to do a few things first, get Advanced Open Water certification, slot in a few more dives and slip in a photo course. Before a summer holiday in the Greek islands we found a really good website for a dive store with loads of information and with reviews giving the diving and that very store a good thumbs-up. Pre-holiday communication was spotty, emails went unanswered, tracking down a working telephone number was hard and, once connected, the conversations were enigmatic at best. It was a triumph of hope over expectation when the dive gear hitched a ride with us.While others were sleeping off the ouzo and dancing, we made our way to the dive store for the crack of ten o'clock, about the earliest anything gets going. We had pre-booked nitrox and in emails and phone exchanges it was "yes, yes", but on the day it was "ochi, ochi", which sounds like OK, but means "No nitrox for you, Johnnie English". The store's mix panel was away on a trip, a plan for getting nitrox from the next town disappeared as it would take too long, be expensive, and anyway there was no oxygen analyser available to test the mix. Coming clean and saying "no nitrox" up front would have been easier all round... To read the rest of this article, you'll need to get your hands on Tanked Up Magazine. It's free. What are you waiting for? |
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