Dive Review of Peter Hughes -- Sun Dancer II in
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Peter Hughes -- Sun Dancer II, Sep, 2013, by Diane Nash, VA, US ( Sr. Reviewer 7 reports with 3 Helpful votes). Report 7110.
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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
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Comments	This was an awesome trip. The ocean life was fantastic. Spotted toad fish, free swimming moray eels during the day, which is very unusual(but probably because they are being fed the speared lion fish) and lots of the regular critters, turtles, lobsters... We have been doing Dancer live aboard's here for 20 years. When we first started diving here the corals where pristine. Over the years we watched it decline but in the last few years we are seeing it come back to what it was 20 years ago. The fish life and corals are coming back strong. In order to keep the fish life strong we need to reduce the number of lion fish by teach the indigenous fish to eat them or allow divers to spear them. The Sun Dancer is my favorite live aboard. The boat is awesome and the crew is more so. Between the two cooks, Carlos and Jerry, with help from Barbara and Elia, meals are prepared like a 5 star restaurant. Captains and some crew members come and go but some of the crew we have been with for 16+ years. The only negative that I saw was putting a chum bucket out to draw sharks. This is the first time in all our years of diving Dancer boats that we have seen them do this. We have seen sharks on every trip over the 20 years without chumming. This was a special 10 day trip at the price of a 7 day trip and we hope that they will do this more than once a year If you are looking for easy diving with great corals, great shear walls, awesome fish life and great accommodations this is a trip for you.
Websites	Peter Hughes -- Sun Dancer II
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Tortola, Turks & Caicos, Cayman Islands, Venezuela, Belize, Bermuda, Utila/Roatan, Grenada, Honduras, Bonaire
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy	Seas	calm, choppy, no currents
Water Temp	82-84°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	75-150 Ft/ 23-46 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	return with 500 PSI was requested but not strickly inforced
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	1 or 2	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		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	N/A

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Dive Review of Peter Hughes -- Sun Dancer II in Belize

Peter Hughes -- Sun Dancer II, Sep, 2013,

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Dive Review of Peter Hughes -- Sun Dancer II in
Belize