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We're planning our next dive trip (last trip was Raja Ampat) and my wife is interested in New Caledonia. I can't find much info online, other than that the island had a bad coral bleaching episode in 2016. Has anyone been diving there more recently? How was it? (I have similar questions about...

My wife wants to visit the Seychelles for vacation next year. Her job is stressful and mine is not, so she gets to choose. She likes land-based diving and she also enjoys beachside relaxing, which makes the Seychelles appealing. We have been to a lot of great places for diving: Raja Ampat...

I was in South Africa on a combined business/holiday trip and took two days to visit Sodwana Bay, staying at and diving with Coral Divers. It wasn't a dedicated dive trip and I only had time for three dives, but I thought my observations were worth sharing, because I would have liked to have...

My wife and I went to Papua New Guinea for 10 days on the MV Febrina and a few extra days in Walindi and Loloata at the end of September/early October. I'm going to focus on the Febrina because that was why we went. FOOD: The good news first. The food is much better than you'd expect for a...

My wife and I are going to Papua New Guinea in October. We dove Raja Ampat last December and I dove in a Lycra skinsuit, borrowed, for the entire trip and it was great. Fabulous. Felt so free, and I was never cold. For PNG, we're buying suits (we usually rent everything but masks). My wife gets...

My wife and I are going to PNG in early October. We're on the MV Febrina liveaboard and have a few days at Walindi as well. Last December we dove Raja Ampat on Dewi Nusantara and I used just a skin, which was great. I wonder if that would be warm enough. Has anyone been diving Kimbe Bay in...

My wife and I are going to Raja Ampat in December on a 10-day liveaboard (Dewi Nusantara), and we have a week in Bali beforehand. We mainly want to do topside stuff in Bali because the liveaboard should be sufficient dive adventure. But we might want to take a day of diving just so we don't miss...

Just got back from 12 days in Fakarava, where the diving is as wonderful as ever. Lots of sharks, dozens on some dives, to the point where you don't consider them special on a dive anymore. We saw a few turtles, some leaf scorpion fish, a manta ray, a devil ray, barracuda, tuna, a beautiful pink...

Just finished 3 very good two-dive days with the Six Passengers in Rangiroa. We've seen dolphins almost every dive. Today I saw a silvertip shark so close up that I saw a hook in its mouth. Spotted eagle rays, no mantas yet, but hopeful. Huge schools of jackfish. This morning I hung onto a rock...

I brought my manual with me to Rangiroa but can't see the answer to this anywhere, nor could I find it online. Can anyone help me? How can I see the remaining no-fly time when I'm on the surface? Thanks.

My wife and I are interested in a guided tour of Monterey. We both have more than 200 dives, but she hasn't been diving in 5 years and we're taking a dive trip to French Polynesia next month (!), so we just want to get wet and get back into the swing of being underwater. We live in SF but don't...

A couple years ago I read, I believe on this board, of a German tour operator that was running dive trips to Saudi Arabia. My wife and I would really like to get on one of those tours. We want to dive the Red Sea, we're not interested in going to Egypt right now (you can tell me it's safe until...

I'm going to be in Israel on a business trip in February and would like to get in some diving. Where's the best place to go from there for a quick trip? I'm into fish, not so much crowds/nightlife. I haven't read anyone raving about the diving from Eilat, but Masa Alam, which appeals to me...

Kia ora. My wife and I just booked a 2-week trip to the South Island of New Zealand in December. We weren't planning on diving -- tramping, rafting, caving, shagging sheep, that sort of thing. Anyway, I wear a prescription mask so if we're going to do any diving at all on a lark I'd need to...