Dive Review of
M/S Paul Gauguin&Dive Blue Nui in
French Polynesia

Solomons, Fiji. Hawaii, Bali, Caribean

Dive Conditions

M/S P. Gauguin = Depth and time
Blue Nui = Depth and air consumption  

P. Gauguin- Zodiacs, no real camera accommodation
Blue Nui on Tikehau, Twin hull, dual outboards, dual ladders, covered, No
photographers on our trip   

Overall Rating

The M/S P. Gauguin is not a liveaboard dive boat but is an exquisite small
cruise ship. The accommodations and dining is outstanding.  The service is
impeccable. It can take 320 passengers but when my wife and I were there in
early March ( the end of the rainy season) there were only 220.  They have
excellent dive equipment and instruction.  Several people went for
transfers for open water cert.  They allow for a total of 4 of their own
dives and one additional nite dive is contracted out.  These are 1 tank
dives.  Dives inside the lagoon are O.K. with lower vis., hard coral and
tropicals.  Outside is clearer, deeper with Black tips, lemon sharks,
Napoleons, Eagle Rays.  A 2 day storm limited one outside dive to and
inside and it was mediocre.
Tikehau Pearl Resort and Blue Nui Divers is a special place.  Romantic and
picturesque.  There are Fave' (burre's) over the lagoon, fans but no A.C.-
nice breeze.  Again great diving outside of the reef.  Add to above,
schooling ball of Jacks, White Tips, Manta, large Morays and Spotted Eagle
Rays.  Again the equipment is good.  Take your fins tho and mask. I brought
regs. because I didn't want to deal with meter depths and bars for tank
pressure.  It's a small place - boardwalk rolls up at nitefall. In spite of
napping every afternoon we still slept like we were drugged. (we weren't
really but maybe G &T's helped a bit). Musicians only on the Sat. nite
we arrived.  Tikehau is 50 min. north of Papeete in the Tuamotu Is. chain-
right next to Rangiroa. Go for 4 or 5 days then switch to another Pearl
Resort on a different island. 

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