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Rent or Buy Snorkel Gear?
Culebra, Puerto Rico
Author: Peggy Hughes (---.sub-75-242-158.myvzw.com)
Date:   12-22-11 04:11

What is the best way to get snorkel gear? Is there a local shop you would recommend? We plan to use it for 4 days, not sure when we would use it again.
Would we be better off to buy or rent?

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Re: Rent or Buy Snorkel Gear?
Culebra, Puerto Rico
Author: Arroz (---.73.60.69.cpe.seasidehighspeed.com)
Date:   12-22-11 19:15

If you are not sure if you would use it again, I would rent. There are several places which rent, one is the Dive Shop at the ferry dock. We were going to rent some equipment for visitors last year and when we looked at their rental equipment it looked to be in fairly decent shape. We didn't end up renting at all so I can't tell you how it turned out.

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Re: Rent or Buy Snorkel Gear?
Culebra, Puerto Rico
Author: Herb (---.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net)
Date:   12-23-11 11:57

http://www.islaculebra.com/forvm/search.php?f=1&search=snorkel+gear&globalsearch=0&match=1&date=0&fldsubject=1&fldbody=1

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Re: Rent or Buy Snorkel Gear?
Culebra, Puerto Rico
Author: Kathy J. Smith (---.dsl.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net)
Date:   12-29-11 06:02

don't know when you are planning your trip...I prefer my own snorkel and mask - the thought of putting a mouth piece in my mouth that someone else has used...well, ick... ;)

At least it doesn't take up much weight or space in the suitcase!

Culebra Divers does have it available and ready when the ferries arrive.

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Re: Rent or Buy Snorkel Gear?
Culebra, Puerto Rico
Author: David Streever (---.hsd1.ct.comcast.net)
Date:   01-02-12 12:02

I usually get it from the nice couple that runs the bike shop by El Batey--very nice people, the mouth piece is washed in alcohol and sterilized. Is it yucky? Sure, maybe, but the glass I drink from at a restaurant and the fork I put in my mouth was also used by someone else. Some of the food I eat literally grew out of poop, and when I eat meat, it is actually the skin of a DEAD ANIMAL!

Some of my girlfriends have even kissed other men before they met me (gasp!) and the pillow case I put my head on when I stay somewhere may have been used by someone else. The air I breathe was in someone else's lungs at one point, and definitely carries germs.

There really isn't anything gross about renting snorkel gear when you think about it that way, so you just have to ask yourself: Do I think I'll snorkel enough to justify buying & lugging this home with me, or is renting an easy and convenient way to do it?

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Re: Rent or Buy Snorkel Gear?
Culebra, Puerto Rico
Author: Karola Heyen (---.186-72.tampabay.res.rr.com)
Date:   02-17-12 15:13

Don't forget where the fish poop! (laughing)

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