Dive Review of Diver's Den in
Australia/Great Barrier Reef

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Diver's Den: "Moo Moo Cattle Boat", Sep, 2018, by Gerry Ash, ON, CA ( 1 report). Report 10519.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	This boat (Ocean Explorer) takes 45 divers on each dive (5 a day) The dive deck is chaotic and crowded. Entry is giant stride from a slippery metal deck. While it is five dives a day the afternoon, night, and early morning dive are all done at the same site. There is no camera table, only a very small rinse bucket. The boat goes up and down the same reef to different sites, so there is not too much variety of dives. If you want a guide you have to pay $15 /dive/diver. The corals are lovely and there are a lot of fish, but I didn't see any eels, nudis, crabs... The sharks on the night dive can be aggressive and will bump you. The 50 min dive limit is strictly enforced in order to get five dives in daily. Over all I wish that I had paid more to dive with a smaller boat in better locations. The crew and staff were very nice.
Websites	Diver's Den
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Mexico (both coasts) Bahamas, Cuba, Curacao, Little Cayman, St Lucia, Saba, St Martin, Honduras , Dominican Republic, Dominica,
Closest Airport	Cairns	Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	78-°F / 26-°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	20-30 Ft/ 6-9 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	50 min dives, MUST dive with a computer, Depths for O/W divers
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 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		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	There is no accommodation for cameras. The dive deck is extremely crowded with 45 divers. There is no camera table, just a small rinse bucket that is not large enough for all of the cameras

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Dive Review of Diver's Den in Australia/Great Barrier Reef

Diver's Den: "Moo Moo Cattle Boat", Sep, 2018,

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

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Reporter and Travel

Dive Conditions

Dive Policy

What I Saw

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Dive Review of Diver's Den in
Australia/Great Barrier Reef