Dive Review of
Traders' Ridge in
Micronesia/Yap

Cozumel, Cayman Brac, Hawaii, Palau, California

Dive Conditions

Stay near a guide.   

fresh water on the dock, that's it.   

Overall Rating

Werner Lau closed up shop the week before we got to Yap. Traders' Ridge
hired a DM to run the shop and a local boat captain and diving guides. Very
nice people and they certainly tried to make the dives interesting. That
said, four days of the Manta Cleaning Station was three days too much for
my wife and I. The four other divers started each day with the chant,
"Manta, manta, manta!" We saw five rays the first day. None after
that. Viz was around 20 feet in the channel. Four days of hanging out on
the sand, 20' viz and nothing to look at. Great fun! Only on the last day
did we manage a different local - 1:2. Here we saw hundreds of tropical
fish including two lion fish, sole, pair of filefish and a lot of healthy
hard corals. A wonderful dive, but it really made the point that we spent
too much time sitting in the sand, waiting for manta rays. There is so much
more to see here. Also, if you are going all the way to Yap, spend the
extra and stay and Traders' Ridge. Great staff, great rooms and wonderful
food.  

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