Dive Review of Meridian Adventure Dive in
Indonesia/Raja Ampat

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Meridian Adventure Dive: "Speedboat diving in Raja Ampat", Sep, 2022, by Craig Howe, FL, US ( Sr. Contributor 26 reports with 19 Helpful votes). Report 12127 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	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	This was a resort that was booked for us by Aggressor Fleet when the captain of their boat left. They were not expecting 14 divers to show up on a days notice, but did a good job of accommodating us. They had to scramble to get enough dive masters when they found out we expected to do 4 dives a day. They picked us up at the docks in Sorong in their speed boats and took us on the one hour boat ride to their resort. A little over a week later I would take this same boat ride on the ferry. That took 2 hours and 15 min. Their motto is what takes others hours, takes us minutes. This was the great part about their boats. The bad part was that the dive ladders were fastened in an upright manner when the boat was underway, but swung down into the water and were not stationary. If the boat moved, so did the ladders. Most people were trying to climb back on the boat with their tanks on, and they kept falling off the ladders, a few had some injuries. Because the ladder moved they could fall off to either side, so you didn't want to be anywhere near the thing when anyone was on it. The other down side was that the middle of the boat was a wall of tanks. The ones ready to go on the bottom and the rest stacked above. So not only could you not talk to anyone on the other side of boat you couldn't see them. And, there was no bench in the middle so you had to sit on the inflatable part and then move your tank to where you sat to put it on. The rooms were minimal but sufficient. Night dives were limited to a nearby reef, we only did one. My only other complaint was that when we asked about the dive site so we could log them, we were told that we would be emailed all that information so not to worry about it now. When I hadn't received anything after a few weeks, I emailed them, they apologized and send they would email it now. Never got anything, emailed them back twice and got no response.
Websites	Meridian Adventure Dive
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	All over the place
Closest Airport	Sorong	Getting There	We came from Lembeh, so SF to Tokyo to Jakarta to Manado to Sorong
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, rainy, cloudy	Seas	currents, no currents
Water Temp	79-81°F / 26-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	40-60 Ft/ 12-18 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Follow the dive guide, limited to 1 hour, no deco diving.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	no
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	N/A
UW Photo Comments	They put as many buckets as we needed for our cameras on the boat. My shower was the shore facility.

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Dive Review of Meridian Adventure Dive in Indonesia/Raja Ampat

Meridian Adventure Dive: "Speedboat diving in Raja Ampat", Sep, 2022,

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

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Dive Review of Meridian Adventure Dive in
Indonesia/Raja Ampat