Why you should never travel with Blue-O-Two

[uitlander]

Travelling to and from a holiday is usually quite grim and stressful. The trip out caused jennyh and I to leave Cambridge at 4 am, deal with the lemon sucking check-in clerk at 6 am, be rammed into cattle class for ~6 hours and then faced with 2nd world bureaucracy and queues for 2-3 hours at Hurghada airport on arrival before exiting and finding that

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[qatsi]

"Well, that sucks". Not sure there's much more to add beyond hoping you have a swift medical recovery and appropriate redress.

[uitlander]

I have added you.

[blueotwo]

It has been brought to our attention that the author of this blog has a number of grievances towards blue o two and it’s staff. We would like to acknowledge accordingly. Firstly, the author/guest did injure her knee whilst stepping into the tender to take her to the intended dive site. Diving is an adventurous sport and getting to sites can often be challenging. It was an unfortunate accident and was admitted by the author at the time as ‘bad luck’. The dive guides offered to return to port so the guest could receive immediate medical care but this was declined

[uitlander]

It's good to see that Blue-o-Two finally responding to this after a delay. However, the statement above has a number of inaccuracies which need to be corrected.

Blue-O-Two say Firstly, the author/guest did injure her knee whilst stepping into the tender to take her to the intended dive site. Diving is an adventurous sport and getting to sites can often be challenging. It was an unfortunate accident and was admitted by the author at the time as ‘bad luck’.

I agree that the accident itself had a component of bad luck, and I do not hold any resentment towards the RIB driver who had signalled me to step into the RIB. Whether the accident could have been prevented is debateable.

Blue-O-Two say The dive guides offered to return to port so the guest could receive immediate medical care but this was declined.What really happened: within a few hours of the incident the guides had a discussion with myself and the nurse about whether I should be taken off the boat. My knee was in an ice pack and elevated. The nurse said that we should really

[rosamicula]

I hope it's okay that I have just linked to this on FB - assume so. I left it till today because I know all the diving types on my feed are back at work now.