Dive Review of Blue Nui in
French Polynesia/Bora Bora

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Blue Nui, Aug, 2009, by Michael Benenson, NY, USA ( Reviewer 4 reports). Report 5057.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations	N/A	Food	N/A
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	We did two 2-tank dives with Blue Nui in Bora Bora. Our dive master was great - very personable, knowledgable and experienced. He also brought hot tea and cookies for the surface interval between the two dives! We were picked up at the dock since we arrived in Bora Bora via cruise ship. Both days he was there on time, waiting for us. The first day it was sunny and beautiful. We sighted a humpback whale while boating to our dive site, the first of the whale season, but unfortunately we did not see him during our dive. The morning dive was near a coral reef, but mostly on a sand bar. We saw bull-nose rays, large parrot fish and lots of tropical fish. The second dive was over a large coral head where there were also tons of tropical fish and lots of lemon sharks - our first dive with sharks! The dive was very controlled and at no point did we feel unsafe. There was also a black tip reef shark. Unfortunately, there has been an influx of crown of thorns in French Polynesia, which has been attacking the coral, and so lots of the coral was dead and broken. The second day we returned to the site from the previous days' second dive to visit the lemon sharks again. For our second dive, we visited another dive site on a different coral head where there was also tropical fish, a sea turtle and I believe [without having my dive log in front of me] some sharks as well. The second day was cloudy, and after our second dive it poured! We very much enjoyed the two days of diving and would return!
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Fiji, Palau, Australia, Thailand, Puerto Rico, Aruba, Grand Cayman...
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy, cloudy	Seas	calm
Water Temp	80-°F / 27-°C	Wetsuit Thickness	2
Water Visibility	60-70 Ft/ 18-21 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	Depth Limits
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	1 or 2
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	[None]

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Dive Review of Blue Nui in French Polynesia/Bora Bora

Blue Nui, Aug, 2009,

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Dive Review of Blue Nui in
French Polynesia/Bora Bora