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Fifth Element: "Scary Dive Guide", Oct, 2018, by C Leroy Anderson, UT, US ( Contributor 13 reports with 4 Helpful votes). Report 10725.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
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	Scary dive guide I went diving with this company while in Reunion Island and had a frightening experience. I was almost out of air at 60 feet and informed the guide who said this was “ok” and not to initiate an ascent. When I was down to 250 psi he still wanted me to remain with him at 60 feet. I judged I did not want to drown so I initiated an ascent. When I got to 30 feet I had 150 psi in my tank and was continuing a slow safe ascent when the guide suddenly and very aggressively swam up to me and grabbed my jacket and pulled me back down to 60 feet with him. He mentioned for me to follow him and I could tell I only had a few breaths left in my tank. We arrive at the boat anchor and then do a very rapid ascent to the surface where I arrive totally out of air. I asked him why on earth he behaved this way on the dive and he says “in France divers must stay together”. I went on my second dive of the day with an alternate company and had a much better and pleasant experience. Just a word of warning, I hope you are more fortunate if you decide to dive with this company. The above report is for the Fifth Element company, not for the company I will describe below which I switched to after my dive with the Fifth Element. For my second dive of the day, I went with a different company, O Sea Bleau. The guides were in this case very good and helpful and totally appropriate underwater, though they could not help the fact that diving on this island is quite mediocre, with no pelagics dolphins seen, little in the way of macro life, and few fish, as well as almost no coral life. We did see some interesting pipefish as the overall highlight of the two dives. O Sea Bleau did have nitrox available which was also nice. Reunion Island, FYI, is a French territory in the Indian Ocean just east of Madagascar and south of the Seychelles. It is very first world in nature, with many French tourists and French inhabitants. It is essentially the "Hawaii" of France. Fabulous mountaineering, hiking, and canyoneering apart from the rather mediocre diving. Many great hotel options, and wonderful French food.
Websites	Fifth Element
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Everywhere
Closest Airport	RUN	Getting There	Via Paris and Air France
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy, cloudy	Seas	calm, no currents
Water Temp	70-78°F / 21-26°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	50-80 Ft/ 15-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	See below
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	no
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 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	Small skiff, no set up for photography.

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Dive Review of Fifth Element in General Travel/Other Locations/Reunion Island

Fifth Element: "Scary Dive Guide", Oct, 2018,

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Dive Review of Fifth Element in
General Travel/Other Locations/Reunion Island