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Captain Don's Habitat: "Not Nitrox Analyzer", Jan, 2024, by Eric Weiss, VA, US ( Reviewer 6 reports with 3 Helpful votes). Report 12868.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations	N/A	Food	N/A
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	I'm posting this because a friend came back from a week at Capt. Don's . She reported that while Capt. Don had nitrox available and divers were using it, there was no nitrox analyzer. She dove with her computer set to oxygen and limited her depth. She suggests bringing your own nitrox analyzer if you go to Capt. Don's. As we learned in our nitrox classes, you MUST analyze your gas because even if the dive operator is trying to get you 32% (or whatever), it never is exactly that. The actual percentage oxygen is what determines your maximum safe dept and how long you can stay down.
Websites	Captain Don's Habitat
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Raja Ampat, Costa Rica, Cozumel, Belize, Turks and Caicos, St. Vincent, West Palm Beach, Keys, San Diego, Puerto Rico
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather		Seas
Water Temp	-°F / -°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	- Ft/ - M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
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	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

Subscriber's Comments

By Mary McCombie in CT, US at Jan 15, 2024 16:25 EST

This is not accurate. There are analyzers on each boat and at the fill station. It's surprising that this diver never saw that.

By report author: Eric Weiss in VA, US at Jan 16, 2024 23:33 EST

My friend asked about analyzing her tank and people just shrugged their shoulders as if to say "why bother?" No one offered an analyzer.

By report author: Eric Weiss in VA, US at Jan 16, 2024 23:34 EST

I hope you're correct and my friend just had a strange week there.

By report author: Eric Weiss in VA, US at Jan 16, 2024 23:34 EST

I hope you're correct and my friend just had a strange week there.

By report author: Eric Weiss in VA, US at Jan 16, 2024 23:34 EST

I hope you're correct and my friend just had a strange week there.

By report author: Eric Weiss in VA, US at Jan 16, 2024 23:34 EST

I hope you're correct and my friend just had a strange week there.

By report author: Eric Weiss in VA, US at Jan 16, 2024 23:34 EST

I hope you're correct and my friend just had a strange week there.

By report author: Eric Weiss in VA, US at Jan 16, 2024 23:34 EST

I hope you're correct and my friend just had a strange week there.

By Mary McCombie in CT, US at Jan 17, 2024 07:40 EST

It seems that your friend must have had an anomalous experience. Analyzers hang from the fill station near the dock, and are on every boat.

By Mary McCombie in CT, US at Jan 17, 2024 07:41 EST

It seems that your friend must have had an anomalous experience. Analyzers hang from the fill station near the dock, and are on every boat.

By Larry S. Klumb in FL, US at Jan 17, 2024 12:36 EST

You are correct, but each day we'd have to ask for the analyzer and they'd have to search for it...not what one would expect if everyone is diving Nitrox

By Marsha Stamatakis in FL, US at Aug 25, 2024 11:39 EST

My husband and I stay at Captain Don's every year for multiple weeks. They certainly do have tank analyzers available and guests use them. The dive guides have always made the analyzers available to anyone who asks, and they are hanging visibly at the fill stations. This is truly an undeserved negative comment.

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