I've gone out with the kind folks at Bandito a few times now. It's a fairly large and well run boat. The crew is experienced, safety focused and knowledgeable about the local dive sites. It's a giant stride entry off the side with a long ladder back on board. The wet area of the cabin is large and warm. They've always had hot soup and warm cookies plus cold cuts for a pickup between dives. The captain spends most of his time in the wheel house and his wife is his primary deckhand/dive master. She's been called unfriendly, but if you've been around the sea enough you'll know to call these folks 'salty.' The fact of the matter is that diving is a technical sport and the deck of a boat is small, especially when there are 14 rubber clad, flipper footed, heavily weighted, wet people running around. Don't take it personally she likes you (she made you cookies didn't she?), but sometimes you really need to be somewhere else or your stuff stowed a certain way so that other divers can get on, geared up or so your stuff doesn't fall over and crush somebody else's gear if a wave hits the boat funny.
Parking is on the street and a little limited at times, but you can dive your vehicle out on the pier and offload your kit at the gangway which is darned convenient. read more