They call me on the phone a week before they are to arrive. Unfortunately, I will be in DEMA in Orlando that week… You say… “no big deal”… Actually it is… I could definitely be the head of the “big boat” fan club for this planet. I have been on boats and lived on boats and worked with boats and slept and ate and designed and built… hell… even my great grandfather designed and built the giant wooden sailing ships for the Culver Military Academy way back when… I was even in the Coast Guard back, “when the ships were made of wood… and the men were made of steel…” … Still you say, “so what?”… It happens that this yacht is the world’s largest… 411 feet with a permanent crew of 60.
They wanted a local guide to show them some of the best diving on the planet… Yep, woulda been me… I would have paid them, just to hang with them for the 4 days or so of diving…
SO…. literally…. my ship came in and I wasn’t around…. I hooked them up with the best guys that I know. What else could I do. I want them to come back, so I’ve made sure the guys will show them the best of the best. Hopefully the customers can handle the diving. There will probably be some healthy currents in some of the places, but the underwater life will be way past worth it. We don’t get a chance to go out and dive the outer stuff where all the big fish live that often. I wish they would have been here in February for the whale sharks or July for the humpbacks… Oh well, they will see more than they can believe with just this… After diving here, they’ll be back.
After this, DEMA just won’t be as good…
