July 1997

Vol. 12, No. 7     What's this?

Men Not Seeking Women; Women Not Seeking Men

from the July, 1997 issue of Undercurrent  

Men Not Seeking Women

In your April issue, one of your readers wrote about his surprise that he had to share a room in the Palau Pacific Hotel with someone else after having been on the Sun Dancer for a week. At least he probably had to share the room with somebody of the same gender [true].

Imagine my surprise when I (being a male) was told while signing up for a live-aboard in Fiji that I would have to share the cabin with a female companion. When I talked to See & Sea [now defunct] about this I was told: "We do not sell the cabins, we just sell the spaces regardless of gender and have found this to be very acceptable with divers."

I would very much like to see the comments of your readers about this.

Dr. Hans Menco
Pittsford, New York

Women Not Seeking Men

Men are simply gorgeous. But I certainly do not wish to share a cabin with a man. When I boarded the Telita in Papua New Guinea, I was asked to share a cabin with "one of the guys." I refused, and other arrangements were made. Upon my return, I tried to book another trip back to PNG next year aboard Mike Ball's Paradise Sport. I expressed the desire that I would like to share a cabin only with another lady. I was told that they could not assure me that would be the case. Do personal privacy and dignity not matter in the diving world? Am I the only person not adequately modern?

Ms. B. Viswanathan
Cairns, Australia