Diving in the normal world

Staff · Issue 21, Oct/Nov 2004 · pp. 4

Diving in the normal world I am a very lucky traveller because most of my trips are booked through trusted agents like Divequest or they are journalist trips where the resort pamper me with good service. I came back to earth (ha, ha) with a real bump this August however when, at the last minute, I decided to join an American friend of mine who had booked a week in the Red Sea on The Blue Pearl organised by London based travel agents Diving World. On the whole the trip was fine from my point of view but it became obvious that two different groups were on board. One had booked from Thursday to Thursday whilst we were from Friday to Friday. The result was that we had to return to port a day early resulting in the loss of virtually a full days diving. Now by my reckoning thatʼs a loss of 16% and both the Blue Pearl and Diving World must have known that they were going to short change our gro…