Asking this on behalf of a guest who isn't an SD diver (yet!).
"We are planning to head to Australia and do a Liveaboard for 3/4 days to do the Cod Hole Tour in the Ribbon Reefs in North Queensland near Port Douglas.
"I know you have significant diving experience all over the world both from your experience as well as your interaction with the group i was fortunate to meet - single divers.
"We are considering two shops to go with:
Undersea Explorer http://undersea.com.au/index.html
Taka Dive Australia http://www.taka.com.au/index.htm
"Do you have any knowledge or advice on either of these two or a better dive company to go with for our excursion? Any help you could give us would be great."
SO ..... can anyone help? I think the question is quite urgent. I've never dived Australia.
Peter
Where to dive near Port Douglas
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peterbj7
, Jan 16 2008 01:14 AM
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peterbj7
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I spend too much time on line
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Posted 16 January 2008 - 01:14 AM
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drbill
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Posted 16 January 2008 - 01:43 AM
I had a great experience with Deep Sea Diver's Den in Cairns. Their head instructor, Paul Crottie, was the only one on a 3-month diving/backpacking trip around the Pacific who recognized my Los Angeles County c-card!
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Quero
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Meeting folks
- Location:Phuket, Thailand
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- Logged Dives:Well, as an instructor, that number is very high, but counting strictly fun dives (pretty much all dives are fun, but I mean ones for which I'm not working), about 750.
Posted 16 January 2008 - 09:54 AM
Asking this on behalf of a guest who isn't an SD diver (yet!).
"We are planning to head to Australia and do a Liveaboard for 3/4 days to do the Cod Hole Tour in the Ribbon Reefs in North Queensland near Port Douglas.
"I know you have significant diving experience all over the world both from your experience as well as your interaction with the group i was fortunate to meet - single divers.
"We are considering two shops to go with:
Undersea Explorer http://undersea.com.au/index.html
Taka Dive Australia http://www.taka.com.au/index.htm
"Do you have any knowledge or advice on either of these two or a better dive company to go with for our excursion? Any help you could give us would be great."
SO ..... can anyone help? I think the question is quite urgent. I've never dived Australia.
Peter
Peter, my vote would be for the Undersea Explorer because they conduct marine biology research on every trip. Typically, they host a researcher on board and fold information relating to the scholar's particular area of research into the trip. During the trip I was on, there was no researcher sailing, but we did some population and territory data gathering for the elusive Nautilus cephalopod, and we photographed sharks at Osprey Reef in an effort to help scientists learn whether the individuals sighted in any particular week were resident or visiting animals. The long-term goal was to document the "life" of the reef in order to support a petition to the Australian government to declare the reef a marine sanctuary and limit fishing. Taka, Mike Ball, and other ops also offer quality operations, but along the lines of the standard eat-sleep-dive liveaboard model; the Undersea Explorer is special in that it goes a step beyond that with its focus on research.
Come dive with me in Thailand!
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