Dive Review of Rainbow Reef in
The Continental USA/Key Largo

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Rainbow Reef: "Disappointing experience", Feb, 2023, by Beth Appelt, FL, US ( Reviewer 5 reports with 1 Helpful vote). Report 12534.
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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	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	[I have dove with Rainbow Reef in the past but not for many ears. My experience this time around was enough to make me never book with them again. I love diving off of the big Newton boats. It's a great boat to dive off with plenty of room and easy to get off and on. The crew I interacted with ranged from experienced and great to inexperienced and terrible. The dives that were led by the experienced guides were fine, they let us do our dives and just made sure we were OK and back on the boat in time. The inexperienced ones got lost, almost let a diver run out of air even though the diver had already given the low on air signal and didn't know how to run a dive in current. The dives were mostly on the shallower reefs and they were in poor condition and consequently we didn't see as many fish as I have seen on past visits. Reef conditions weren't Rainbow Reef's fault but it would have been nice to visit different dive spots instead of continuing to go back to just different sites all around the same reef area.]
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Hawaii, Mexico, Various Caribbean, Tahiti, French Polynesia, Australia
Closest Airport	Miami	Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather		Seas
Water Temp	75-77°F / 24-25°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	20-40 Ft/ 6-12 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	We had to stay with the dive guide and complete the dive by a certain time.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish	N/A
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 Rainbow Reef in The Continental USA/Key Largo

Rainbow Reef: "Disappointing experience", Feb, 2023,

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):

Dive Review of Rainbow Reef in
The Continental USA/Key Largo