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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[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

[uitlander]

BlueOTwo say The guest also spoke with Fefe (Egypt Destination Manager) on Wednesday and there was no request for Fefe to contact the insurance or provide an incident report.What actually happened: Ahmed, the lead guide, spoke with Fefe by mobile phone on Wednesday afternoon while I was with him, this was while the ship was at sea in range of a phone transmitter. He called her after I mentioned to him that I was concerned about the journey home and asked him what my insurers had said and whether they were making any arrangements. He said that Fefe sorted this side of things out. I was passed the handset and spoke briefly to her before she asked me to hand the handset back to Ahmed and their conversation continued