Dive Review of
Explore Ventures/Caribean Explorer I in
Bahamas

Fiji South Pacific Cozumal and several other places

Dive Conditions

130 air 110 nitrox buddy system  

[None]  

Overall Rating

Overall a good operation. The food could have been a little better. The
boat is showing her age, she was a converted crew boat and is a little top
heave, does not do well in big seas'. The crew was very good and tried to
meet everyones needs. The place to dive is San  Salvador island, everything
else is kind of "ho hum". During this trip I had my regulator
pluged up with Al Oxcide from poor tank maintenance. I cleaned my filter
three times and finely got a different tank. One other person was haveing
problems and actually had an out of air experance at depth.We checked her
reg and it was pluged solid. Over all we found at least three tanks with
this problem. The tanks are two years old and they claimed that they were
just checked. (Vis). I don't believ this for a second. The tank valves had
crud build up and the boat didn't have any way to get the valves out of the
tanks (Vice)or a light or brush on board to check and clean the tanks. I
would use this operation again but I would check for proper maintenance
issues. 

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