Dive Review of Tahiti Aggressor in
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Tahiti Aggressor, Aug, 2003, by Linda Dunn, Ca, US . Report 623.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	First trip on Aggressor, the only live-aboard in Tahiti. Rangiroa is beautiful, and it's a good thing since due to a blown engine we never left the lagoon. The boat is supposed to move to several other locations but couldn't since they couldn't get the part to repair it for days. This would be fine if we had another week or two, but we didn't and a couple of divers left and went home. We stayed. The dive crew did their best to entertain us, doing the same dives for a week. Food and lodgings were top-notch. But the disappointment was in not leaving Rangiroa. Aggressor offered us $1,000 each vouchers, for future trips, but with restrictions. What we did see was sharks, lots of them, on nearly every dive, and dolphins on at least half the 20 dives. Turtles, schools of jacks and snappers, eels, hard coral, no soft corals. Visibility in Rangiroa is very good, currents strong, so they hand out sausages and EPIRBS (but only one per buddy team - and to the men, I noticed, more than the women). The boat is so comfortable that the week of doing the same dives wasn't as bad as it could have been. We talked to a group of divers from Madrid who dived the week after we left and they said the captain didn't want to leave Rangiroa their week either, due to weather, but they insisted, so he finally did, but not to the places advertised.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	[Unspecified]
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm, currents
Water Temp	79-80°F / 26-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	2
Water Visibility	50-150 Ft/ 15-46 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Tahiti Aggressor in French Polynesia

Tahiti Aggressor, Aug, 2003,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

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What I Saw

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Dive Review of Tahiti Aggressor in
French Polynesia