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M/S Paul Gauguin&Dive Blue Nui, Mar, 2004, by David S. Wisdom M.D., Or, U.S.A. . Report 951 has 1 Helpful vote.
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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
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Comments	The M/S P. Gauguin is not a liveaboard dive boat but is an exquisite small cruise ship. The accommodations and dining is outstanding. The service is impeccable. It can take 320 passengers but when my wife and I were there in early March ( the end of the rainy season) there were only 220. They have excellent dive equipment and instruction. Several people went for transfers for open water cert. They allow for a total of 4 of their own dives and one additional nite dive is contracted out. These are 1 tank dives. Dives inside the lagoon are O.K. with lower vis., hard coral and tropicals. Outside is clearer, deeper with Black tips, lemon sharks, Napoleons, Eagle Rays. A 2 day storm limited one outside dive to and inside and it was mediocre. Tikehau Pearl Resort and Blue Nui Divers is a special place. Romantic and picturesque. There are Fave' (burre's) over the lagoon, fans but no A.C.- nice breeze. Again great diving outside of the reef. Add to above, schooling ball of Jacks, White Tips, Manta, large Morays and Spotted Eagle Rays. Again the equipment is good. Take your fins tho and mask. I brought regs. because I didn't want to deal with meter depths and bars for tank pressure. It's a small place - boardwalk rolls up at nitefall. In spite of napping every afternoon we still slept like we were drugged. (we weren't really but maybe G &T's helped a bit). Musicians only on the Sat. nite we arrived. Tikehau is 50 min. north of Papeete in the Tuamotu Is. chain- right next to Rangiroa. Go for 4 or 5 days then switch to another Pearl Resort on a different island.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Solomons, Fiji. Hawaii, Bali, Caribean
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy	Seas	calm, choppy, surge
Water Temp	80-84°F / 27-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-80 Ft/ 15-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	M/S P. Gauguin = Depth and time Blue Nui = Depth and air consumption
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	1 or 2
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	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	P. Gauguin- Zodiacs, no real camera accommodation Blue Nui on Tikehau, Twin hull, dual outboards, dual ladders, covered, No photographers on our trip

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Dive Review of M/S Paul Gauguin&Dive Blue Nui in French Polynesia

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Dive Review of M/S Paul Gauguin&Dive Blue Nui in
French Polynesia