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Scuba-do, Jul, 2009, by Andrea Di Fabio, Bs.As., Argentina ( Reviewer 3 reports). Report 5045.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations	N/A	Food	N/A
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	The divesite was the Spiegel, a shipwreck laying +120 feet of water. Very strong currents. The dive operator was ok, they gave us a very good briefing on the shipwreck, they had a detailed picture of it and the routes to follow since this is very big wreck. It had 7 buoys coming down to the wreck and it was very hard (due to strong currents and poor vis) to identify which was the rope to go up. Besides, none of them had anything to easily identify it. We ascended through a wrong one that led us too far away from our boat. Big waves on surface and strong currents prevented us to get to our boat. They throwed a rope with a buoy but it was tangled with another boat. We had a very tricky return to the boat. Other than that, the wreck in itself is a very fine dive, one of the best of US in my opinion and it's definitely for advanced divers.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Australia, Belize, Fernando de Noronha, Mexico, Caribbean, Red Sea...
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy	Seas	choppy, currents
Water Temp	18-20°C / 64-68°F	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	25-30 Ft/ 8-9 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	To follow the ropes down to the wreck and up to the boat
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		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		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]

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Dive Review of Scuba-do in The Continental USA

Scuba-do, Jul, 2009,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

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What I Saw

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Dive Review of Scuba-do in
The Continental USA