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various: "Be aware whether dive operators are on rigid repetitive schedules.", Aug, 2024, by Fred H Kolo, NY, US ( Reviewer 3 reports with 4 Helpful votes). Report 13028.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations	N/A	Food	N/A
Service and Attitude	N/A	Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation	N/A	Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	The French operation (which may be quite different now) scheduled their dives on the basis of the tide schedules and were hugely effective in providing the best available day to day. The operations (mostly the Americans) that tend to have more rigid repetitive daily dive times may or may not. My own experience was that those who read the tides rather than the clocks provided the best diving. I confess this was from many years ago, but I would not be surprised if it is still the case. I may or may not ever find out as I made a "soft" decision a while back to stop diving. I may or may not hold myself to that. Fred Kolo
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Moorea, Rangiroa, Grand Turk, various Bahamas, Sipaden, Loma Loma Fiji, Martinique, Cayman and Little Cayman, Belize, more and not at all in that order
Closest Airport	Papeete	Getting There	long flights
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	surge
Water Temp	-°F / -°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	- Ft/ - M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	One must pretty much dive with the group.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	1 or 2
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	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	This is more a comment on the operators when I dove then some time ago. I found a simply local beach-side motel and stayed more than a week and dove daily with the then French local operation. I believe my posted opinion here may still be of interest.

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Dive Review of various in French Polynesia/Rangiroa

various: "Be aware whether dive operators are on rigid repetitive schedules.", Aug, 2024,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

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Reporter and Travel

Dive Conditions

Dive Policy

What I Saw

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Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

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