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# Diving in FP Country forums / Pacific Islands & Papua New Guinea / Tahiti & French Polynesia
seopsan 16:06 UTC 11 Mar 2007 | Hi, I'm planning to go to FP next september for diving. Can anyone recomend me the best dive sites? I would like to visit two islands. Thx |
ejpiii 21:55 UTC 12 Mar 2007 | Almost any of the atolls of the Tuamotus. The one I stayed on last-Fakarava-has 3 (I think) dive shops. Many of the smaller less populated atolls you would have to pack in everything. But the Calypso's crew routinely says the Tuamotus have the best diving in the world. Other than that the rest of the islands will have reef to deep wall diving. Ed | 1
gazhawkins 04:47 UTC 16 Mar 2007 | Rangiroa has spectacular shark diving; it will help if you're experienced with strong currents. | 2
ejpiii 07:02 UTC 16 Mar 2007 | 3, thats my point, with very rare exceptions ALL of the atolls in the Tuamotus-not just Rangiroa, which is merely the largest of them-have awesome unreal diving and snorkelling with the tides. You go out in the ocean and wait for the current to rip you into the lagoon. Utterly awesome. You are part of what appears to be a vast migration of critters large and small, nearly always including several shark and ray species and just about anything else in the Pacific that has fins. It really is a once in a lifetime thing. Ed | 3
globality 18:52 UTC 25 Mar 2007 | The pass at tikehau is very nice and the manta rays (manta club dive center) was awesome. This is more fish than corral | 4