Dive Review of Aggressor Fleet in
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Aggressor Fleet: "Excellent", Nov, 2022, by gregory moore, ID, US ( 2 reports with 1 Helpful vote). Report 12303 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Comments	Palau is the best overall diving location I have been to (I haven’t been to Indonesia or elsewhere in Southeast Asia), but I wouldn’t rank it at the top in any particular category. For example, we saw up to eight gray reef sharks (at one time) on numerous dives, but if you really want to see sharks, there are better places to do it. We saw two manta rays on each of two of four dives at German Channel, but, again, there are better places to see mantas. The coral at Palau is prolific and varied, but not very colorful (nothing like the Rainbow Reef at Fiji, for example). Palau does have a big variety of marine life and lots of schooling fish of many varieties. It also has terrific reef topography—numerous caverns that you can drop into as much as about 100 feet down through a chimney and then exit through a huge tunnel. The most famous is Blue Holes, but others that we dived during two weeks included Virgin Blue Hole, Sias’ Tunnel and Turtle Cove. Chandelier Cave was also very cool—enter at 18 feet depth, then pop up in four air pockets where you can remove your mask and check out the stalactites. It feels like a cave, but is technically a cavern since you can always see some light from the entrance. It’s suitable for divers without cave diving experience. We had one amazing dive during a plankton swarm when I was surrounded by thousands of fish while I watched a manta about 20 feet in front of me doing somersaults with its mouth open feeding on the plankton. We also had an impressive dive watching a red snapper spawning when hundreds of males massed around the females while they sped toward the surface releasing their eggs. Many of the dives at Palau are along walls, which are beautiful but pretty similar to one another. The diving at Palau is in more or less a lagoon, so other than one very stormy day, the water was quite calm. I booked two weeklong dive trips in a row when Aggressor was offering Palau trips at half price. Considering the long trip to get there from the U.S., I was glad that I did. Five of the dives during the second week were new ones for me. I spent one week on the Palau Aggressor and one on the Rock Island Aggressor. The boats are identical. The cabins are roomy enough and the boats are very stable, apparently due at least in part to their catamaran hulls. The food on the Rock Island Aggressor was very good and on the Palau Aggressor was superb. The service on both boats was very good and the staff friendly, except for one somewhat hostile and unappreciated lecture we got on the Rock Island boat that appeared to be scolding all of us for the behavior of one diver. Before booking a trip to Palau, I recommend thoroughly checking the flight schedules as they can be inconvenient from the U.S. The return flight leaves at 2 a.m. followed by an almost five-hour layover at Guam.
Websites	Aggressor Fleet
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Caribbean, Galapagos, Socorro, Sea of Cortez, Fiji, Tuamotus
Closest Airport	Koror, Palau	Getting There	From LAX, then overnight in Honolulu, then to Guam and Koror
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	80-83°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-70 Ft/ 15-21 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Buddy diving ordered, but not enforced.
Liveaboard?	yes	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	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Aggressor Fleet in Micronesia

Aggressor Fleet: "Excellent", Nov, 2022,

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Dive Review of Aggressor Fleet in
Micronesia