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Dive Review of Biliki Cruises in
Solomon Islands

Biliki Cruises, Oct, 2005,

by Bob and Gayle Bringas, or, usa . Report 2158.

No photos available at this time

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

Accommodations 4 stars Food 4 stars
Service and Attitude 5 stars Environmental Sensitivity N/A
Dive Operation 5 stars Shore Diving 3 stars
Snorkeling N/A
Value for $$ N/A
Beginners 4 stars
Advanced 4 stars
Comments Rooms were spacious. Corals healthy. Lots of lionfish (a personal favorite.) Lots of large schools of large fish. Not much in the way of pelagics, but lots of the usual tropicals and macro stuff. Some interesting and unusal dives: a few wrecks, passage dives for sharks, caves, and Mirror Pond, where you surface in an inland pond in the jungle. Most diving from 'tinnies', metal skiffs with small, but adequate, boarding ladders. Dive masters personable, helpful if you needed it; left you alone if you didn't. Crew attentive and helpful. This is the only liveaboard we've been on where the crew cleaned your gear at the end of the week! If it didn't get dry, they took it down to the engine room overnight. Laundry services offered midweek.

Reporter and Travel

Dive Experience 251-500 dives
Where else diving GBR, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Red Sea, PNG, Palau, Truk, Fiji, Bali/Komodo, Tahitia, Hawaii, Caribbean
Closest Airport Getting There

Dive Conditions

Weather sunny, dry Seas calm
Water Temp 84-86°F / 29-30°C Wetsuit Thickness 0
Water Visibility 70-80 Ft/ 21-24 M

Dive Policy

Dive own profile yes
Enforced diving restrictions Depth limit of 111 feet (Nitrox)
Liveaboard? yes Nitrox Available? N/A

What I Saw

Sharks 1 or 2 Mantas None
Dolphins None Whale Sharks None
Turtles 1 or 2 Whales None
Corals 5 stars Tropical Fish 5 stars
Small Critters 4 stars Large Fish 5 stars
Large Pelagics 3 stars

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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