Dive Review of TOPdive/Intercontinental Le Moana in
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TOPdive/Intercontinental Le Moana: "Two Easy Dives in Paradise", Nov, 2019, by Zygmunt Dembek, CT, US ( Reviewer 3 reports with 5 Helpful votes). Report 11373 has 1 Helpful vote.
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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	Dove Anau and Tapu dive sites in the Bora Bora lagoon with TopDive while on vacation in Bora Bora. Divemaster Berton was solid and safety conscious, but not much critter identification. Nitrox provided for all divers. Rental dive gear all in very good condition. Air pressure provided to divers in bars, not PSI. Easy diving, with dives made at 60 feet depth (that's the bottom depth at Anau). Two very large (8-9 foot wingspan) mantas circling at ~30-40 feet at Anau dive site. Healthy Pacific reef with moderate corals and plenty of marine life. Blue and yellow giant clams (small to moderate size), shrimp, saddled and double-saddled butterfly fish, pinchion seastar, school of cornetfish seen twisting in the water column. Tapu dive site was chock full of lemon sharks (6-8 feet) going about their business. Small blacktip reef sharks also spotted here, as well as stonefish, parrotfish, juvenile spdefish, juvenile Napolean wrasse, and a large school of surgeonfish. There was 3-4 other dive boats moored at this dive site when our dive boat arrived, and the lemon sharks here could care less, they just hung out and circled everyone.
Websites	TOPdive Intercontinental Le Moana
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Throughout the Caribbean, Cocos, Fiji, Galapagos, and the Hawaiian Islands.
Closest Airport	BOB	Getting There	Flew on Air Tahiti from PPT to BOB. Most of the afternoon spent sitting in PPT airport. Our Air Tahiti flight was delayed 3 1/2 hours during rain. No explanation was given by Air Tahiti, and some of our plane's original passengers left for BOB via a connecting flight, while we sat in the PPT airport. Oddly, we eventually left on the same airplane originally designated for our flight, which sat at PPT airport while many other original passengers had departed PPT during this time.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	78-80°F / 26-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	60-70 Ft/ 18-21 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Group stayed with DM, although divers could trail the group at a distance.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
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	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
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Dive Review of TOPdive/Intercontinental Le Moana in French Polynesia/Bora Bora

TOPdive/Intercontinental Le Moana: "Two Easy Dives in Paradise", Nov, 2019,

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Dive Review of TOPdive/Intercontinental Le Moana in
French Polynesia/Bora Bora