Dive Review of Yap Divers/O'Keefe's Waterfront Inn in
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Yap Divers/O'Keefe's Waterfront Inn, Sep, 2009, by Vicky Smith, GA, US ( Reviewer 6 reports). Report 5184.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
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Comments	On Yap we dove with Yap Divers, located at the Manta Ray Bay Resort. The dive boats are a little cramped - dressed cylinders are laid on the floor of the boat. On one trip, we had several snorkelers on board as well, and we were kept to shallow sites for the snorkelers. Overall the operation is pretty good, just those minor complaints, but I didn't visit any others so I have no comparison on Yap. On our way out to Goofnuw Channel one day, we saw a pod of orca whales - quite an incredible site! One diver jumped right in and captured an amazing video of an orca swimming within 4 feet of him. Regarding mantas, we didn't see too many, and the visibility wasn't great on any of the dive sites. We saw more orcas, than mantas. We stayed at O'Keefe's Waterfront Inn, which is more commonly known to the islanders on Yap as the Waterfront Inn (we were greeted with puzzled looks when we said "O'Keefe's"). The hotel is next door to the Manta Ray Bay & Yap Divers, and I felt it was a very good value. Rooms at the MRB are very nice - large and airy - but waterfront rooms are pricey, and non waterfront rooms don't have great views. All of the Waterfront's 5 rooms are right over the water (literally OVER the water - I dropped my dive computer off our balcony and had to go for an impromptu swim!). The rooms are very small but decorated like a Victorian era inn, which I thought was very charming. Our balcony also had a storage closet with a heated circulating fan where we hung our gear each afternoon, and even the heaviest neoprene was dry by morning. We had some meals at MRB on the Mnuw, which seems to be the town's social gathering point at night, and enjoyed the owner's home-brewed beer, and the nightly slide-show of dive pictures and video. Overall Yap had different diving than I have ever experienced - certainly the orca encounter was new to me - though it pales in comparison to the diving off Palau.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Red Sea, South Pacific, Caymans, FL Keys, Andros, Belize...
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	choppy
Water Temp	82-85°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-75 Ft/ 15-23 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	> 2
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Yap Divers/O'Keefe's Waterfront Inn in Micronesia

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Dive Review of Yap Divers/O'Keefe's Waterfront Inn in
Micronesia