Dive Review of Loloata Island in
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Loloata Island, Jul, 2005, by Jill Rain, WA, USA ( Sr. Reviewer 9 reports with 4 Helpful votes). Report 1843.
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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
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
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Comments	This place is quite under-rated as a dive destination. Everything I'd read described it as a stopover or alternative to staying in Port Moresby, which it can be. I chose to go there after booking a liveaboard knowing it would be crazy to go all the way to PNG just for a week, looking for another place in the country where there might be some diving. But Loloata is good enough to be a dive destination in itself. The muck diving is excellent, as has been reported elsewhere, and conveniently close to the resort: pipefish, nudibranchs, flatworms, shrimp/gobies, crabs, cuttlefish, blennies, etc. The wonderful surprise was the diving farther out, 15-40 minute boat ride; sites ranging from good to excellent; bommies, walls and wrecks. Great diversity and abundance of reef species (butterfly fish, anemones/fish, angelf,parrotf, surgeonf, triggerf, filef, snapper, eels, jacks, sweetlips etc, even some sharks) and several sightings during the week there of pygmy seahorse, lacy scorpionfish (both varieties), frogfish, leafy scorpionfish. The wrecks, mostly fishing trawlers, are shallow enough (less than 100') to have plentiful coral growth (hard, soft, seafans) and associated populations such as lionfish, sweepers, anthias, crabs, seahorses, scorpionfish, shrimp, plus large groupers, triggerfish and barracuda around. The dive operation is top-notch in every way: handling equipment, divemasters and crew above and below surface (briefings, finding and pointing out things) helpful and competent at all times. They will run a boat out for even one diver. Rates are good. Three dives a day if you want and a night dive if requested. The resort has a relaxing and homey atmosphere, and has everything you need: 24-hour power, good plumbing, A/C, good food, a genuinely friendly and always helpful staff. Each duplex bungalow has a large deck overlooking the water and the mainland beyond, which you can enjoy (no bugs). Interesting assortment of wildlife on the grounds. Altogether, a great land-based dive destination, convenient to Port Moresby and modestly priced in comparison to other places in this part of the world.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	[Unspecified]
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather		Seas
Water Temp	81-84°F / 27-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	0
Water Visibility	15-80 Ft/ 5-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	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	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 Loloata Island in Papua New Guinea

Loloata Island, Jul, 2005,

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

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Dive Review of Loloata Island in
Papua New Guinea