Dive Review of Sail Ningaloo in
Australia/Ningaloo/Western Australia

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Sail Ningaloo: "Interesting diving in Western Australia", Mar, 2023, by Alice Ribbens, MN, US ( Contributor 19 reports with 19 Helpful votes). Report 12411.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling
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Comments	We had wanted to go to Ningaloo for awhile. After a trip planned by some friends was rescheduled due to Covid, we were able to join them. Our trip was also rescheduled due to Covid, but finally occured in March 2023. We spent ~3 weeks in Western Australia, a few days south of Perth and then making our way up the coast to Ningaloo, diving with Sail Ningaloo at the end of the trip. While the diving was very interesting, I don't know that I would do this trip again unless I happened to be in Australia or Western Australia for a different reason. (The diving in Ningaloo is very very different than the GBR.) Sail Ningaloo is a class operation. They were very responsive to all of our questions and inquiries ahead of time. They also arranged hotel rooms for all of us on the nights before and after the boat, arranged airport transport, and stored a bunch of extra luggage for us while we were on the boat. Their liveaboard Shore Thing is a catamaran and it's a small boat. Definitely the smallest of the 25 liveaboards I've been o ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here
Websites	Sail Ningaloo
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Komodo, Raja Ampat, Banda Sea, Philippines, Maldives, Palau, GBR, Fiji, British Columbia, Monterey, Puget Sound, Hawaii, Bonaire, Turks & Caicos, Caymans, Honduras, Belize, Cozumel, Akumal, Sea of Cortez, Lake Superior, Solomon Islands, St. Croix, St. Vincent, Socorro, Cuba, Lembeh etc.
Closest Airport	Learmonth	Getting There	We flew to Perth and spent time driving up the coast. Flew back to Perth from Learmonth.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy	Seas	choppy
Water Temp	23-26°C / 73-79°F	Wetsuit Thickness	5
Water Visibility	10-30 M / 33-98 Ft
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Dives limited to 50 (sometimes 60) minutes
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	no
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	See above about rinse buckets. There were no dedicated charging areas. You could charge things in the salon or in your room. ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here

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Dive Review of Sail Ningaloo in Australia/Ningaloo/Western Australia

Sail Ningaloo: "Interesting diving in Western Australia", Mar, 2023,

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What I Saw

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Dive Review of Sail Ningaloo in
Australia/Ningaloo/Western Australia