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Captain D.J.
Master Instructor

Another year is in the books at Rainbow Reef and we would like to thank everyone who came down to dive with us this year, and we hope to see you next year as well. We’ve met so many nice people over the past few years, and this year was no exception. On behalf of the entire staff we want to wish everyone a happy, healthy and safe holiday season, wherever you find yourself.

May the new year bring you prosperity and be better than 2008. No doubt that this was a tough year for most people with the economy faltering and the pressure that put on all of us. We were paying almost $5.00 a gallon for Diesel fuel at one point, but we are thrilled to be back around $2.50 a gallon again. It is hard to keep the dive trips affordable when fuel is that high, and if a business has to raise prices, it’s a vicious circle.. You have no choice, but then you begin to price people out of the market. So, we did all we could to stand firm and we didn’t raise our prices last year, and we are proud to say we were just about the only shop around that didn’t either raise prices or add a fuel surcharge. We plan on keeping the prices just the same for this coming year, so we hope you will come back and see us! 

We had our annual Holiday party last night. Lots of people came and we had fun telling all the funny stories from the past year.. You would think we all see each other every day, but not really.. Between the two shops and days off, it is rare that we are all under one roof. Not only did we have the whole crew, we were also fortunate enough to have some special guests! George and Mel Yates from Team Divers joined us, along with Anya and Rob from Scuba-Fun.. Candy also came, she is the Dockmaster in Key Largo.. Some of you may even remember my brother George! He came down from West Palm beach! Just about everyone in the crew brought a guest so we had a whole room at Outback Steakhouse to ourselves!

Bridget Findley (Capt. Bills wife) was kind enough to send me a few pictures she took… Some of you we will see this week over Christmas.. The rest of you we will see in 2009!! Look forward to it!

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