Instant Reader Report
on Tahiti Aggressor / [same] in
Tahiti and French Polynesia / on
2003/08
by
Linda Dunn , Ca, US
Report Number 030827005236211

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Overall Rating

First trip on Aggressor, the only live-aboard in Tahiti. Rangiroa is
beautiful, and it's a good thing since due to a blown engine we never left
the lagoon. The boat is supposed to move to several other locations but
couldn't since they couldn't get the part to repair it for days. This
would be fine if we had another week or two, but we didn't and a couple of
divers left and went home. We stayed. The dive crew did their best to
entertain us, doing the same dives for a week. Food and lodgings were
top-notch. But the disappointment was in not leaving Rangiroa. Aggressor
offered us $1,000 each vouchers, for future trips, but with restrictions.
What we did see was sharks, lots of them, on nearly every dive,  and
dolphins on at least half the 20 dives. Turtles, schools of jacks and
snappers, eels, hard coral, no soft corals. Visibility in Rangiroa is very
good, currents strong, so they hand out sausages and EPIRBS (but only one
per buddy team - and to the men, I noticed, more than the women). The boat
is so comfortable that the week of doing the same dives wasn't as bad as it
could have been. We talked to a group of divers from Madrid who dived the
week after we left and they said the captain didn't want to leave Rangiroa
their week either, due to weather, but they insisted, so he finally did,
but not to the places advertised.  

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