Dive Review of Aggressor Liveaboard in
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Aggressor Liveaboard: "Phillippines Agrgrressor- Maiden Voyage", Nov, 2022, by Laura Tesler, OR, US ( Reviewer 3 reports with 4 Helpful votes). Report 12168.
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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
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Comments	The crew on this boat were some of the nicest most hard-working people you will ever know and meet so I can't say enough good things about them. I really liked the HUGE cabins, nice beds, we had a porthole, huge bathrooms, etc. The dive deck was great and clean, nice fills, always spot on 32%. The pangas and the operators were great and carried all my stuff as my knees are very bad and I can't carry my unit down to the pangas off the boat right now. I really appreciated that. Food was plentiful and at times interesting as they mixed in some traditional Filipino food. Lots of fruit! Portions were so huge! Here is what I didn't like: the "group diving”, at times I felt like I was being ushered along, I have a big camera and I go really slowly, and I felt like I was always trying to catch up to the group, I hated that. I also wish they would segregate people with annoying GoPros away from people with real cameras as people with GoPros don’t understand that they can’t stick their Gopro into your frame when you’re shooting and also kick sand all over your shot. In general, most people who have a GoPro have no photography etiquette whatsoever, so those folks should be in their own “group” far away from the serious shooters and then everyone is happy. We spent too much time diving at Malapusca, two dives are enough to see the thresher sharks, they were cool, but you can’t use lights or strobes so…four dives were too many and boring as there is nothing to see there other than the sharks. Diving Oslob is a total waste of time as for an hour all you do is wait on the bottom and stare up at legs of snorkelers and the bottoms of whale sharks as they are being hand fed. That’s a waste of my time and money. We should have spent that time diving great sites like Sumilon or Apo. Apo was simply amazing, and we could have dove there many more time than 4 times we did. The night dives were my favorite, so much to see. Also charging us $30 a person for a ride to the airport was pretty outrageous (they reduced the cost after we squawked a bit) and the hotel they want you to stay in at Cebu City is a dump located right at the airport that’s really noisy. We didn’t want to stay there, so the Aggressor people wanted to charge us a lot of money to take us to the ship. There was a lot of coral bleaching in some areas and there were fish traps and people fishing in “protected” areas, makes one wonder what the marine park fees are going for. I also would not recommend going in October or November as we got caught in a typhoon at the end and that made getting out of Manila impossible and delayed departure for three days. I would advise avoiding Manila airport, especially terminal 4, at all costs.
Websites	Aggressor Liveaboard
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Honduras, Mexico, Indonesia, California, British Columbia, Oregon, Washington, Bonaire, Red Sea
Closest Airport	Cebu City	Getting There	Best to fly into Cebu City or Dumugeute and avoid Manila if posisble
Dive Conditions
Weather	rainy, cloudy	Seas	calm, surge, currents
Water Temp	86-88°F / 30-31°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	40-80 Ft/ 12-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	"Group" diving
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	> 2
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		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	They also need better camera set up on the dive deck as I had to carry my camera up and down flights of stairs numerous times a day and that got old.

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Dive Review of Aggressor Liveaboard in Philippines/Visayas

Aggressor Liveaboard: "Phillippines Agrgrressor- Maiden Voyage", Nov, 2022,

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Dive Review of Aggressor Liveaboard in
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