Dive Review of Black Pearl in
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Black Pearl: "The Best of the best in Palau", Oct, 2022, by Larry S. Klumb, FL, US ( Reviewer 3 reports with 9 Helpful votes). Report 12136 has 3 Helpful votes.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
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Comments	Sometimes reality is too good to be true, such was our experience on our early October voyage on the Black Pearl in Palau. A magnificent Chinese ship, built to accommodate 20 divers in spacious, “hotel room like accommodations, with huge bathrooms. Our intrepid group of nine had the ship ourselves, but for one additional diver, for 8 days in early October. Our diver master, come cruise director, Gabriel, “Gaby” and his lovely wife Maria, both from Argentina, treated us to exceptional diving of our choosing, hitting all the usual hot spots: Blue Corner, German Channel, Ulong Channel, and many more that some of us, who’d previous been to Palau, had never had the pleasure to experience. Diving was safe, well planned and briefed. Each diver was issued a Dive Alert signaling device, and the “check-out dive” included a mandatory deployment by each diver of their SMB. Two morning dives and one afternoon, left time for evening cocktails on the beach before dinner. All diving was made from steel skiffs. Tanks, along with other kit, remained on the skiff the entire week, with only wetsuits and cameras to be dealt with otherwise. A large, fan ventilated compartment off the diver deck accommodated wetsuits and others wet items. The food was plentiful and tastefully prepared, meeting any and all dietary needs and requests. The Black Pearl is what we were told is the first of a fleet of 7 vessel to will ply the Pacific dive hot spots. The even more spectacular White Pearl, sitting in a Chinese port awaiting approval to begin operations in the Maldives, is 50% larger than the Black Pearl, and accommodation for 29 divers.
Websites	Black Pearl
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Truk, Maldives, Cocos Island, Socorros, Guadalupe Island, Hawaii, Guam, Palau, most Caribbean islands
Closest Airport	Korror	Getting There	From Tampa, FL via Houston, Honolulu, Guam, Korror - a challenge
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	85-86°F / 29-30°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Dives were limited to 110 feet
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	1 or 2	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 Black Pearl in Micronesia

Black Pearl: "The Best of the best in Palau", Oct, 2022,

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Dive Review of Black Pearl in
Micronesia