Instant Reader Report
on Moorea Blue Diving / Moorea Pearl Resort in
Tahiti and French Polynesia / Moorea on
2003/01
by
Gary Redman , WA., USA
Report Number 030119154018828

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 Extensive Caribbean, Central America, and Hawaii 

Dive Conditions

Standard profiles and procedures  

This is a new resort and new dive operation that is just getting going. No
facilities are available at this time but are planned within the next
year.  

Overall Rating

Raphael Bonneau has just started the dive program at this 6 month old
resort after working for other dive operations for 10 years on Moorea. He
is highly competent, safety conscious, extremely knowledgeable of local
dive sites and marine life, and has a wonderfully engaging personality.
His pre-dive briefings were informative, he followed safe and appropriate
dive profiles, and he has a wealth of local knowledge that he shared with
us. He went out of his way to make each dive interesting and exciting. He
is enthusiastic, ambitious, hard working, and fully capable of developing
a world class dive facility at the Moorea Pearl Resort. On one dive we had
50+ black tip, white tip, grey, and lemon sharks which he attracted and fed
with a tuna head. Hard corals were healthy and plentiful but there were no
soft corals or gorgonians. The fish were extremely curious, swimming right
into your mask! We encountered turtles, a variety of eels, pelagic trigger
fish, tuna, baracuda, lionfish,and an abundant, colorful supply of reef
fish. There are currently no rinse tanks, gear storage, or drying
facilities - dive bags can be picked up at your room and delivered to the
dock and later returned to your room - call front desk for baggage
pick-up. You need to rinse all your gear and hang it to dry back at your
room. Two tank morning dives and one afternoon dive. Steel tanks are used
so weights should be reduced. Entrances are a back roll. Shed your BC and
tank before climbing back aboard up ladder. This is a beautiful place with
wonderful diving and with the resort's support, Raphael will develop a
world class dive operation. 

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