Dive Review of Moorea Blue Diving/Moorea Pearl Resort in
French Polynesia/Moorea

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Moorea Blue Diving/Moorea Pearl Resort, Jan, 2003, by Gary Redman, WA., USA . Report 325.
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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	Raphael Bonneau has just started the dive program at this 6 month old resort after working for other dive operations for 10 years on Moorea. He is highly competent, safety conscious, extremely knowledgeable of local dive sites and marine life, and has a wonderfully engaging personality. His pre-dive briefings were informative, he followed safe and appropriate dive profiles, and he has a wealth of local knowledge that he shared with us. He went out of his way to make each dive interesting and exciting. He is enthusiastic, ambitious, hard working, and fully capable of developing a world class dive facility at the Moorea Pearl Resort. On one dive we had 50+ black tip, white tip, grey, and lemon sharks which he attracted and fed with a tuna head. Hard corals were healthy and plentiful but there were no soft corals or gorgonians. The fish were extremely curious, swimming right into your mask! We encountered turtles, a variety of eels, pelagic trigger fish, tuna, baracuda, lionfish,and an abundant, colorful supply of reef fish. There are currently no rinse tanks, gear storage, or drying facilities - dive bags can be picked up at your room and delivered to the dock and later returned to your room - call front desk for baggage pick-up. You need to rinse all your gear and hang it to dry back at your room. Two tank morning dives and one afternoon dive. Steel tanks are used so weights should be reduced. Entrances are a back roll. Shed your BC and tank before climbing back aboard up ladder. This is a beautiful place with wonderful diving and with the resort's support, Raphael will develop a world class dive operation.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Extensive Caribbean, Central America, and Hawaii
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy, cloudy	Seas	calm, choppy, noCurrents
Water Temp	84-85°F / 29-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	100-150 Ft/ 30-46 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Standard profiles and procedures
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	None	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
UW Photo Comments	This is a new resort and new dive operation that is just getting going. No facilities are available at this time but are planned within the next year.

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Dive Review of Moorea Blue Diving/Moorea Pearl Resort in French Polynesia/Moorea

Moorea Blue Diving/Moorea Pearl Resort, Jan, 2003,

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

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Reporter and Travel

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What I Saw

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Dive Review of Moorea Blue Diving/Moorea Pearl Resort in
French Polynesia/Moorea