21 Apr 2024
If I were rating the guys at pure diving based on their kindness, it would undoubtedly be a 5/5. But there were a few issues that we encountered with their procedures. 1. Their site advertises a limit of 6 divers, but we had 9 to 10 on the boat. Sometimes we all dove together, which made for a large group when you include divers and dive masters. The larger group dives were worthless, in our opinions. Sometimes they split the group in 2, which made for much more pleasant dives. 2. When the groups were split, we had to leave the water so the boat could go pick up the other group. That was unfortunate because we had 1500 left in our tanks, so we felt a little cheated having to abort the dive so early. I've never had this experience with any other dive shop. 3. We took a course from pure diving to add to our certifications. The course was bare minimum instruction. We plan to retake the course on our next dive trip so we can feel confident with the skill. 4. There were many divers taking different courses while we were there. They teach the courses to individual divers while traveling on the boat or during the break between dives. That worked out fine, but sometimes we were using our underwater time and air while waiting for someone to complete a skill for their course. When we have taken courses in other locations, the divemaster took the time to teach us individually. 5. We felt there was a lack of organization that sometimes caused confusion. There was 1 dive that was never given a briefing. 6. We are accustomed to concierge diving, which was not the case with Pure Diving. Everyone carried and assembled their own gear everyday. Overall, everything worked out and everyone was kind and friendly. But we would choose a different dive shop if returning to Aruba.