Dive Review of
Taka Dive/Take in
Australia/Great Barrier Reef

Cocos, Malpelo, French Polynesia, Palau, Truk, Red Sea, Maldives...

Dive Conditions

Dive at specified times and should you choose to skip a dive, you MUST sign
the manifest ONLY at the crew's convenience.  [Saying you want to go to
sleep and offering to sign the manifest when the other divers are jumping
into the water is NOT acceptable!]  

No electrical facilities except these in your cabin.  Rinse tank was used
for everything.  

Overall Rating

A previous correspondent name this dive operations previous boat as the
'Kaka'.  Unfortunately, her description is still apt.  This operation is
targeted at inexperienced backpackers.  Many of them are enticed by last
minute discounts ensuring that the boat always leaves full.  The boat
operates on a very tight back to back schedule requiring passengers to
vacate their cabins several hours before return to port so that they could
be serviced by the crew.  

Great food and fairly attractive cabins on a well designed new boat could
not make up for the most unpleasant cruise director and dive crew we have
ever encountered on a liveaboard.  Had there been an option to disembark
during the three day cruise, we would not have hesitated.  We booked this
cruise because it was operating during the Minke Whale season.
Unfortunately, one of the two encounters with these skittish creatures was
swiftly terminated by a crew member who donned scuba gear and jumped into
the water (in contravention of Australian law) and ensured the immediate
flight of the whale.

Sorely regretted not booking the Mike Ball boat instead.  Another reader
who travelled on that operation's Spoilsport at the same time as us had a
much better experience. 

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