Dive Review of Dancer fleet/Tropic Dancer in
Micronesia/Palau

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Dancer fleet/Tropic Dancer , Nov, 2012, by John Drummond, ca, US ( 2 reports). Report 6771.
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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
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Great service attitude. Very good dive guides. Thorough briefings. Food superb. (Bravo Mani and assistants!) All diving is from one skiff (panga), which, of course, puts everyone on exactly the same clock on and off the mother ship. There were some moderately strong currents. (Reef hooks provided.) The accommodations were 4 of 5. (I prefer cabins with two beds side by side and no overhead bunk to bang your head on in the night.) FYI, the Dancer and the Aggressor in Palau are physically almost identical boats. The same crew group works on both boats. I did not tour the Aggressor but I would expect an Aggressor trip to be much the same as ours. The Aggressor was in sight most of the time. We did a land tour on Peleliu (focussed on the WW II combat). Very interesting to this observer. Jelly fish lake is unique and deserves the hype. The bad news was nothing to do with the dive operation. Your choices for flying in and out of Palau from the U.S. are the middle of the night or the middle of the night. It made especially the eastbound return trip physiologically brutal. Build in stops along the way or recovery time once you are stateside. On the day (early morning) of arrival in Palau we went to the Sea Passion Hotel to await the 5 pm boarding. I would use it again.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Bonaire, Fiji, French Polynesia, Dutch Antilles, Cozumel, Hawaii (all islands), Yap, others
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm, currents
Water Temp	84-°F / 29-°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	60-100 Ft/ 18-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	MOD for nitrox. Encouraged but not required to stick with the group
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	Squadrons
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	I'm not a photo guy. I heard no complaints from the UWPs

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Dive Review of Dancer fleet/Tropic Dancer in Micronesia/Palau

Dancer fleet/Tropic Dancer , Nov, 2012,

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

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Dive Review of Dancer fleet/Tropic Dancer in
Micronesia/Palau