Fiji/Tahiti Aggressor

Would appreciate your opinion on either or both.

Lawrence

"Lawrence" <coralsea5@citlink.net> wrote in message
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> Would appreciate your opinion on either or both.
>
> Lawrence

I've been on both the Fiji Aggressor and the Naia. I prefer the latter.
You dive your own profile, the crew was accommodating, the boat was upscale,
and the diving is some of the best around.

Buck

Do they (Nai'a) have a 10 charter? What time of the year did you go? What
year was your trip? Lawrence

"Lawrence" <coralsea5@citlink.net> wrote in message
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> Do they (Nai'a) have a 10 charter? What time of the year did you go? What
> year was your trip? Lawrence
>

Yes, Feb, 99 or 00. We're planning another trip with them pretty soon. We
had to get Truk, Yap, Palau, and PNG out of the way first before retracing
steps.

Buck

Lawrence <coralsea5@citlink.net> wrote in message news:<BBF75372.CB76%coralsea5@citlink.net>...
> Would appreciate your opinion on either or both.

Your best bet is to go to the http://groups.google.com archival search
to
find what had already been posted about these operations.

Go to the "advanced groups search" option, and specify ONLY the
keywords
"Tahiti Aggressor", and you'll immediately find the first 10 of 264
hits,
in LIFO (Last In First Out) order, two trip reports, by me and Greg
Mossman in this ng, and one by a well-known no-good-scoundrel using
ONE
of his sockpuppet posting names (he used three different ones in the
same thread). Read those with BIG grains of salt.

There aren't many reports about the Tahiti Aggressor because it's
relatively new. I was on one of the early charters last December.


If you use the "Fiji Aggressor" in the same google search, you'll find
many more hits but in FIFO (First in First Out) order beginning with
several in 1997, so have have to look for the more up-to-date ones in
the later posts.


As for my own impression on the Tahiti Aggressor, it's pretty much
like
the other Aggressors (generally excellent), but with its signature
and emphasis on the Tuamoto passes for fast drift diving (up to 12
knots
they say, but in practice rarely over 5-6, but still VERY swift).
Otherwise, I didn't find it any more exciting than many of the other
islands in the French Polynesia which are accessible only via cruise
ships and air but VERY EXPENSIVE per dive ($60-$80) for 1 tank.

See my rec.travel.cruises report on diving in the French Polynesian
islands as well as my (subjective) rating of diving locations, see

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...&output=gplain


The Tahiti Aggressor dives in the islands and passes of Rangiroa,
Apataki, Taoa, and Fakarava in the Tuamoto island group. See:
http://www.aggressor.com/subpage.php?d=13

For the Fiji Aggressor, see:
http://www.aggressor.com/subpage.php?d=13

-- Bob.