Anybody has info about diving in Madagascar?

[Eric Cartman]

Has anybody being there lately?

 

[Nut Bubblefish]

Sorry I have not been there, but I was also wondering if it would be nice (or even possible) to dive there. So, I'll make the thread live a little longer...

Thanks guys for your answers

 

[Eric Cartman]

Sorry I have not been there, but I was also wondering if it would be nice (or even possible) to dive there. So, I'll make the thread live a little longer...

Thanks guys for your answers

Thanks for replying but it seems that nobody else has info for us ...

 

[Damselfish]

I couple months ago I read an article in some mainstream magazine (maybe Islands?) that talked about what sounded like great diving in Madagascar. Southeast coast someplace.

Maybe you can find it at your dentists office.

 

[Code Monkey]

I read (I think in one of the Lonely Planet dive guides) that it is good diving but not great diving (our assessment based on their description). Since it is expensive for us to get there, we decided that it may not be the best use of our vacation dollars.

 

[Hank49]

I have four friends that lived and worked there for a couple years. All got malaria and got it bad....like they thought they were dying. The anti malarial made one of them really sick too. Be careful.

 

[Code Monkey]

Yeah, anti-malarials can be pretty bad (but, on the other hand, malaria kills over a million people each year). Mefloquine was, for me, the worst since it caused acute paranoia. I don't remember what I had last time but it was pretty benign -- I could have dived with that, no problem. I'm told, though, that there's a new anti-malarial every couple of years so you can never know what you're gonna get -- guess it's like a box of chocolates! I don't think I'd want to dive with one if I didn't know, already, how my body was going to react to it.

 

[Bowmouth]

Has anybody being there lately?

No, never been there. Do an internet search on "Nosy Be" because that's supposedly THE place in Madagascar to dive.

 

[Albion]

Watch out for the Foosahs

 

[lamont]

Watch out for the Foosahs

you got to move it move it.