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CORALREPUBLIC Brothers
Islands, Red Sea, 2003 |
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Trip
dates: |
25 – 31 August 2003 |
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Boat
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MV Sea Queen |
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Dive
centre: |
Cruise organised by Viajes Abando – Diver’s Lodge was the dive operation on board. |
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Photo-friendly?: |
Not really. No decent camera table on board, one rinse tank, no
charging stations. |
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Number
of dives: |
16 out of 6 days of diving. |
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Diving
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Clear weather, but choppy seas. Currents at the |
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Comments: |
Not a luxury boat, but that did not bother us too much. What we
found horrible was the organisation (we were held 8 hours during the night of
our arrival at the Luxor airport – i.e. a shack – waiting for other guests).
On board, safety was not good and some divers came close to sticky situations
in the current, while the divemaster went for fun
dives with a friend. The moorings went loose in the middle of the night at
Big Brother (we were woken up by the yelling and hurrying about of the crew).
One guy was dragged below the keel while trying to get back on the platform in
the ripping current, he surfaced safe but scared on the other side. Some
novice divers in the group went happily below 50m without supervision. We
were very, very lucky no one got hurt in any of these incidents. The diving was superb, even if we did
not have shark action (the warm season is no good for sharks). But this trip
made me decide not to travel with Abando again. Still shooting with my |
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