Eek! Methinks not, is about right. I tried emaili...

Eek! Methinks not, is about right. I tried emailing the shop first instead of posting to google, but my concerns went unanswered so I no longer feel the need not to share my negative thoughts.

To sum it up in less words than I sent the dive shop, we booked a dive excursion with Aquarius Dive Shop. We came from LA specifically to do a dive tour, as Monterey was recommended in many dive books so we were eager for great diving.

We chose a guided dive as opposed to just exploring on our own as we could do that, but wanted someone familiar with the area, especially since this was one of my first dives out of my certification.

To start, the website states group dives are groups of 4 or less. Ours was a group of five, and clearly five was too many for our guide to handle.

Our guide took us to what I would call the worst dive site and does nothing to show off Monterey. To start, he chose a dive site that was awful, and didn't have sufficient parking. Parking was an issue when then made us pressed for time and rushed. We did not have a good experience as being rushed and pressed for time due to parking constraints really takes the fun out of things.

Due to time constraints and being rushed, we missed one out of our two guided dives.

On our second dive, there was nothing to see other than the kelp, which was not as impressive as Catalina. He found 1 crab for us to see, and that's all we saw. Visibility was less than 8 feet so if there was more to see, this wasn't the place.

There are a lot of dive shops to choose from, and I would not recommend this one for a dive tour. They didn't provide the services I expected from a dive tour and they didn't care to respond to my email, so I would try to find a different dive shop that will offer a better experience.