Non-Swimmer Books A Snorkeling Tour, Gets Roasted By A Business Owner When He Leaves 1-Star Review Online
Having an amazing snorkeling tour in the Hawaiian Islands may sound like a perfect plan for your holiday. One can already see the guides who are promised to guide you while you gently swim surrounded by green Hawaiian sea turtles, chase tropical fish, swim alongside lush coastlines, and simply enjoy the ocean. It must be the place where you can finally and completely relax and forget all about your daily worries! There probably still is one thing that can get in your way. Before going on a snorkeling tour, one has to make sure he can… swim. At least this seems to be the problem faced by a man who left a very angry comment and a one-star review on the agency’s website.
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Man’s holiday snorkeling plans turn into a nightmare once he is forced to face reality
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Man leaves a one-star review of the agency and blames his terrible experience on the “misleading description”
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The one problem this man had – he was not able to swim and according to him, he was not warned by the agency
A man who booked a tour and was expecting to experience all the magic of snorkeling in the North Pacific Ocean ended up very disappointed. He left a one-star review evaluating his experience as ‘terrible’ and wrote a comment criticizing a tour description as ‘misleading’. The only problem this man had – he was not able to swim and according to him, he was not warned about such a requirement by the agency. On the one hand, for most people who know the meaning of the word “snorkeling,” it might seem self-explanatory that one needs to be able to swim in order to snorkel, similarly to how you need to know how to write if you want to write a poem.
On the other hand, one might say that by claiming the description was misleading for not stating one must know how to swim, the man got it wrong twice. As noted in the guide’s reply: “It clearly states in the description you must be able to swim 50 yards.” Additionally, the instructor adds to his point by saying the man was extremely panicky and not able to snorkel in 3-4 feet of water. However, the culmination of the man’s complaint is his disappointment over the unfulfilled expectation that the guide would “aid” him rather than instructing him to return to shore instead.
Initially not expecting he would be required to swim, the man suddenly expected the snorkeling guide to turn into his own personal swimming instructor. However, despite the man’s expectations not being met, his spouse took the tour and the unfortunate man had to spend the entire hour on the beach waiting for her to come back. This probably was the last straw, when the man’s emotions took over and he had to express them in his review. The tour guide explained he was sorry; however, it was all in the description and he could not risk the man’s safety by bringing him into the deeper water.
Tour guide explains it was all in the description and he could not risk the man’s safety by bringing him into deep water
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Man’s complaint culminates in his disappointment that the guide would not “aid” him and instructed him to turn back instead
As per the guide’s answer to the man’s comment, the word swimming was brought up at least three times in the description of the tour. It says in the description: “Our professional guides will guide you while you gently swim.” Also, it explicitly states in another place: “you need to be able to lightly swim.”
Additionally, the Tropical Snorkeling website mentions fear among the main factors that might get in your way of enjoying your first time snorkeling. Of course, it all depends on the individual; some are faster to adapt to such circumstances, and some are slower. However, they suggest renting the equipment before going to the beach and taking your time getting used to it. Putting on your mask and adjusting it right to fit your face can take some time. “With a light inhale, your mask should suction to your face.” Next, you can visit the pool or a shallow beach for practice and take your time getting comfortable “breathing through a snorkel with your face in the water.”
Divein also suggests improving your swimming skills if you are not confident enough. One should focus on freestyle, especially the kicking technique that is used for snorkeling. Finally, most of the advisers for snorkeling agree that the main rule for enjoying it is to relax! Not being in a rush, nor overwhelmed by a new experience allows one to effectively breathe through a snorkel and most importantly, actually appreciate the marine life. Immersing yourself in it can give one a humbling experience of a different perspective than one is used to.
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The vast majority of commenters were amazed the man went snorkeling without knowing how to swim, let alone asked for a refund
The vast majority of commenters online expressed amazement that a man went on a snorkeling tour not knowing how to swim and asked for a refund afterward. Some asked, what did he think snorkeling was? However, some did know these sorts of incidents happen from time to time when people do have a similar understanding of underwater activities as this man. Some commenters even said they themselves went snorkeling a few times without knowing how to swim. One such commenter assumed the problem was the man’s stressed behavior in the water.
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He saw the words "guided" or "aided", and, despite it also saying that guide takes groups up to 10 or whatever, took it to mean each snorkeler (or at least him) would have someone personally swim them around. Even if he could swim, if he was panicking in only 3-4 feet, that's a No-Go situation for anyone for safety reasons.
Glad he didn't buy guided missile, just seeing the word guided.
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Technically you don’t need to be able to swim to snorkel. It’s 90% floating and 10% just kicking with your legs to get around. You DO need to be confident in deep water and be able to tread water, if you are going into depths where you can’t touch the bottom. I’m sure the snorkeling group had waivers to sign that mentioned swimming ability on it, too, that he would have read and signed that day.
You expect too much of him, thinking he actually read the safety waiver he had to sign...
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Wow! Vampire -Priest is quite nasty. Not sarcastic, nasty. They didn't even pay attention to the post that the spouse is MALE. Just laid into "her" stupidity.
Idk anything about reddit user vampire-priest, but they radiate "m'lady" energy
So apparently he needs someone to hold his hand throughout life and make things EXTEREMLY obvious for him to understand. One would think you'd automatically know that you'd need to know how to swim in order to go snorkeling! If it wasn't for the response, I'd believe this was a troll as nobody could actually be like this.
How would you not need to be able to know how to swim? I don't understand.
I wonder if they thought they would be wearing a flotation device and would be supported and held by someone while they floated. I honestly cannot understand their though process either. The ocean is not the same as a pool.
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(This is a joke) I went to a restaurant yesterday. BUT NO ONE TOLD ME I HAD TO EAT
Why do people go in the sea if they can't swim? I honestly don't understand. Unless you are an oldtimey sailor fishing haddock in the North Sea, or trying to find the South West passage, I don't get going near the sea without learning just rudimentary survival skills.
Some people live thinking the entire world exists to hand-hold them through life.
Load More Replies... They obviously weren't in some of the less safety conscious countries I've been snorkeling in where people who can't swim get given a life jacket to wear and then get dropped off to start snorkeling. The better companies provide a guide to tow the person around.
Snorkeling before learning to swim = Putting the cart before the horse
When i was a waitress, i once had a lady send back her stuffed shrimp because she didn't know they were stuffed. The manager didn't believe me until she told him the same thing.
These are the people that win Darwin Awards if left unsupervised long enough. I mean, people laugh about the warning label on the lawn-mower deck, but there's a reason these things exist. "Gee, I wonder what would happen if I shove my fingers into the rapidly rotating metal blades? GAAAAAAA!!!!! Why didn't they warn me about that?"
My cousin used to manage a pool company. The kind that cleans community pools and provides lifeguards for them. One season a mom called in for her baby boy. He wanted to be a lifeguard. He just needed to be taught to swim first.
Does anyone have the link to the actual review? I'm curious if this person has a habit of leaving ridiculously stupid reviews
He spoke this wrong on his review. It wasn't about him not knowing how to swim it was more about him being afraid to put his head in the water. My little sister is the same way. But her son loves to swim. She don't go pass thigh level water. She sends everyone else with him. You can't teach someone how not to be afraid to submerge your head in water that's a you thing. I don't know what he thought snorkeling was. I guess he thought he was going to see the fishes just by standing in the water. I think he's really mad because he was looking like a fool panicking in front of everyone especially his wife. Than his wife didn't even stay with him lol.
My husband and I love to snorkel. A few times, the guide offered floaties to people. One time I went with my mother and she was probably past 70 and she took one for fun (she was still lifting weights at the time). When we go on tours, I'm totally focused on either the tour guide or my husband so I don't get lost so I never noticed if someone didn't know how to swim. BUT there was this woman who refused to go with her newly husband of one week because she just got her hair done. 🙄
😂😂😂 I've actually seen c**p like this, except, most the group couldn't swim! A few years ago my daughter and i went to Ixtapa, Guerrero, i was in college and my kid was around 4/5. She was a fairly new swimmer but they had vests so we went snorkeling with a group of my classmates. Y'all, Only one of my classmates, my daughter and I could swim. We followed instructions to a point that we didn't realize most couldn't swim until we were like 50 ft into the water. Anyways, it's was all very calm and nobody panicked and we had fun. The op is so freaking dumb and probably could've just floated around.
My sister can't swim for the life of her, but she still love's snorkeling in Hawaii...she has tons of floaties on her though. Waist strapped (looks like a banana belt), and 2 pool noodles. Only bad experience snorkeling was when there were tons of tiny jellyfish around us. Apparently we 2 are the 2% of the population that feels the stings. Go figure.
But I bet she doesn't panic! I'm sorry about the jelly stings though, hopefully they weren't too painful.
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Holy C**p Batman 😳 has this moron been living in a cave? Did he not learn how to read?? How did he not realize that immersing himself in the ocean did not require being able to effing swim!?! Just can't fix Stupid! I'm always amazed at how many people go into bodies of water without having basic swimming skills, just asking to become a sad statistic.
Many names have connotations, just gotta live with them and if we don't want to be labeled "another blank", we gotta break the stereotype. So Chad needs to not be another jerkwaffle GymBro, Karen needs to not be another obnoxious entitled demonette. Becky needs to stop being so snotty about her hair... Mary needs to mind her own business, Nancy needs to not be so negative about everything.... Goes on and on.
Load More Replies... He saw the words "guided" or "aided", and, despite it also saying that guide takes groups up to 10 or whatever, took it to mean each snorkeler (or at least him) would have someone personally swim them around. Even if he could swim, if he was panicking in only 3-4 feet, that's a No-Go situation for anyone for safety reasons.
Glad he didn't buy guided missile, just seeing the word guided.
Load More Replies... Technically you don’t need to be able to swim to snorkel. It’s 90% floating and 10% just kicking with your legs to get around. You DO need to be confident in deep water and be able to tread water, if you are going into depths where you can’t touch the bottom. I’m sure the snorkeling group had waivers to sign that mentioned swimming ability on it, too, that he would have read and signed that day.
You expect too much of him, thinking he actually read the safety waiver he had to sign...
Load More Replies... Wow! Vampire -Priest is quite nasty. Not sarcastic, nasty. They didn't even pay attention to the post that the spouse is MALE. Just laid into "her" stupidity.
Idk anything about reddit user vampire-priest, but they radiate "m'lady" energy
So apparently he needs someone to hold his hand throughout life and make things EXTEREMLY obvious for him to understand. One would think you'd automatically know that you'd need to know how to swim in order to go snorkeling! If it wasn't for the response, I'd believe this was a troll as nobody could actually be like this.
How would you not need to be able to know how to swim? I don't understand.
I wonder if they thought they would be wearing a flotation device and would be supported and held by someone while they floated. I honestly cannot understand their though process either. The ocean is not the same as a pool.
Load More Replies... (This is a joke) I went to a restaurant yesterday. BUT NO ONE TOLD ME I HAD TO EAT
Why do people go in the sea if they can't swim? I honestly don't understand. Unless you are an oldtimey sailor fishing haddock in the North Sea, or trying to find the South West passage, I don't get going near the sea without learning just rudimentary survival skills.
Some people live thinking the entire world exists to hand-hold them through life.
Load More Replies... They obviously weren't in some of the less safety conscious countries I've been snorkeling in where people who can't swim get given a life jacket to wear and then get dropped off to start snorkeling. The better companies provide a guide to tow the person around.
Snorkeling before learning to swim = Putting the cart before the horse
When i was a waitress, i once had a lady send back her stuffed shrimp because she didn't know they were stuffed. The manager didn't believe me until she told him the same thing.
These are the people that win Darwin Awards if left unsupervised long enough. I mean, people laugh about the warning label on the lawn-mower deck, but there's a reason these things exist. "Gee, I wonder what would happen if I shove my fingers into the rapidly rotating metal blades? GAAAAAAA!!!!! Why didn't they warn me about that?"
My cousin used to manage a pool company. The kind that cleans community pools and provides lifeguards for them. One season a mom called in for her baby boy. He wanted to be a lifeguard. He just needed to be taught to swim first.
Does anyone have the link to the actual review? I'm curious if this person has a habit of leaving ridiculously stupid reviews
He spoke this wrong on his review. It wasn't about him not knowing how to swim it was more about him being afraid to put his head in the water. My little sister is the same way. But her son loves to swim. She don't go pass thigh level water. She sends everyone else with him. You can't teach someone how not to be afraid to submerge your head in water that's a you thing. I don't know what he thought snorkeling was. I guess he thought he was going to see the fishes just by standing in the water. I think he's really mad because he was looking like a fool panicking in front of everyone especially his wife. Than his wife didn't even stay with him lol.
My husband and I love to snorkel. A few times, the guide offered floaties to people. One time I went with my mother and she was probably past 70 and she took one for fun (she was still lifting weights at the time). When we go on tours, I'm totally focused on either the tour guide or my husband so I don't get lost so I never noticed if someone didn't know how to swim. BUT there was this woman who refused to go with her newly husband of one week because she just got her hair done. 🙄
😂😂😂 I've actually seen c**p like this, except, most the group couldn't swim! A few years ago my daughter and i went to Ixtapa, Guerrero, i was in college and my kid was around 4/5. She was a fairly new swimmer but they had vests so we went snorkeling with a group of my classmates. Y'all, Only one of my classmates, my daughter and I could swim. We followed instructions to a point that we didn't realize most couldn't swim until we were like 50 ft into the water. Anyways, it's was all very calm and nobody panicked and we had fun. The op is so freaking dumb and probably could've just floated around.
My sister can't swim for the life of her, but she still love's snorkeling in Hawaii...she has tons of floaties on her though. Waist strapped (looks like a banana belt), and 2 pool noodles. Only bad experience snorkeling was when there were tons of tiny jellyfish around us. Apparently we 2 are the 2% of the population that feels the stings. Go figure.
But I bet she doesn't panic! I'm sorry about the jelly stings though, hopefully they weren't too painful.
Load More Replies... Holy C**p Batman 😳 has this moron been living in a cave? Did he not learn how to read?? How did he not realize that immersing himself in the ocean did not require being able to effing swim!?! Just can't fix Stupid! I'm always amazed at how many people go into bodies of water without having basic swimming skills, just asking to become a sad statistic.
Many names have connotations, just gotta live with them and if we don't want to be labeled "another blank", we gotta break the stereotype. So Chad needs to not be another jerkwaffle GymBro, Karen needs to not be another obnoxious entitled demonette. Becky needs to stop being so snotty about her hair... Mary needs to mind her own business, Nancy needs to not be so negative about everything.... Goes on and on.
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