Dive Review of Palau Dive Adventures/Island Pacific Resort Club in
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Palau Dive Adventures/Island Pacific Resort Club: "Great time diving in Palau", Feb, 2025, by Rick Feinleib , VA, US ( Sr. Contributor 20 reports with 9 Helpful votes). Report 13705.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	Palau takes diving several steps higher! I usually keep my trip highlight report fairly concise, but Palau had way too many highlights. Five of us, of the originally expected 7, lasted to the Palau portion of our trip. One of us injured his calf diving in Guam on the way to Palau, and one got sick 2 days before the trip. We arrived at our hotel at 1am. We spent the next day as a rest day -- we actually wound up touring the largest island in our vehicle and hiked to a waterfall -- before starting 5 consecutive days of dives with Palau Dive Adventures. What a treat!! Our dives included some reefs, walls, channels, holes, a tunnel, wartime wrecks, a "Jake" seaplane wreck, and 2 or 3 "corner" dives -- Siaes Corner and Blue Corner, notably. Corners are places where reef walls end and the current rushes up from the deep and over the lip of the wall during the right tidal phase. We had to use reef hooks -- hadn't used those before -- with 6-foot lines clipped to our BCs to hold us stationary while getting buffeted by the current like kites in strong wind. So we stay relatively stationary in the current and watch the parade of gray reef sharks, black-tips, 1000s of triggers, bumphead parrots, unicorns, grouper, bluefi ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here
Websites	Palau Dive Adventures
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Coz, Palau, Bahamas, LilCayman, GBR, Galapagos, Okinawa, Culebra, San Andres, Belize, Fla Keys, Croatia, Saba
Closest Airport	ROR	Getting There	United via Guam. Flight delays on return made it advisable to keep a hotel room on return night.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm, choppy, currents
Water Temp	28-30°C / 82-86°F	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	20-30 M / 66-98 Ft
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Due to currents and park rules, we dived the guide's profile and plan.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	Squadrons
Dolphins	Schools	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	No explicit camera tables or buckets on the boat. ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here

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Dive Review of Palau Dive Adventures/Island Pacific Resort Club in Micronesia/Palau

Palau Dive Adventures/Island Pacific Resort Club: "Great time diving in Palau", Feb, 2025,

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Dive Review of Palau Dive Adventures/Island Pacific Resort Club in
Micronesia/Palau