It's been a fun week so far. Ben took our truck in for service and they found out one wheel was about to fall off and the brakes were totally gone. Typical of Roatan, there are no replacment brakes on the Island. Ben was able to get some sent from La Ceiba but they take at least a day to get here. In the meantime, we found a place that rebonds new pads but the electric was off so they couldn't do anything. Ben spend mucho dollars running around in taxi's trying to get this straightened out but ended up home in frustration.
On top of that, all our gas cans were on the broken down truck so we had no boat gas. Luckily, Henry my dive master, offered to go get the cans and gas. I gave him $20 for his trouble but we were unloading gas late last night.
Today was even more fun. I have been trying to teach scuba diving to a lady and her 11 year old child. They are very challenging especially the mom. She is more scared of the water than anyone I've ever seen. The boy doesn't pay attention but seems to do everything well anyway. He's very tiny however and has a really hard time with his weight belt. They should have finished part of the class by Monday morning but we didn't finish until very late on Tuesday.
I used the small resort boat to take out my students and a couple of snorklers joined us. Were were in the water about 30 minutes when the boat captain motioned for me. I swam back to the boat to find out our big dive boat had broken down out in the water. We had to recall everyone and take them back to Paya Bay. We then went and towed the large boat back. It would barely run and it sounded like it was all broken up inside.
I called a mechanic and he arrived about 7:30 pm. He looked at the problem and determined that we blew a piston. They suspect water in the gas caused the problem.
I have another boat rented until we can sort out this problem but it's costing us a fortune and we are loosing money daily.
Right now I have no truck and no boat. Life in paradise isn't always what it's cracked up to be.
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