Palau Diving

Anyone stayed at the Pan Pacific recently ?? How is their on site dive shop
(Splash) ??

THE dive operations in Palau is Sam's Dive Tours....

LaserSully wrote:
> Anyone stayed at the Pan Pacific recently ?? How is their on site dive shop
> (Splash) ??

"Barry" <bklein5@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> THE dive operations in Palau is Sam's Dive Tours....

http://www.seapalau.com/

> LaserSully wrote:
>> Anyone stayed at the Pan Pacific recently ?? How is their on site dive
>> shop
>> (Splash) ??

Splash seems to cater to the Japanese. If your Japanese is good, I suppose
it's worth a shot.

lasersully@aol.com (LaserSully) wrote in message news:<20041009211140.18589.00002240@mb-m29.aol.com>...
> Anyone stayed at the Pan Pacific recently ?? How is their on site dive shop
> (Splash) ??

Not bad for renting a tank and do a shore dive! Very inexpensive, time
saving, and I saw more giant Pacific clsms there than on several Sun
Dancer liveaboard trips. Large and small Pacific fishes too.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?R2F352E79


From: Nigel Kelleher (seadeuce@iol.ie)
Subject: Palau diving
Date: 1996/09/01

wrote in this thread (in groups.google.com):

> I visited Palau in May, diving from the Ocean Hunter.

> I would NOT go on that liveaboard again. They operated in
> a very restricted area; we did not visit Peleliu, and did German
> Channel FIVE times!

That probably has changed since 1996. The German Channel is a
bore of sorts. But I saw a crocodilefish there. On my three
Sun Dancer liveaboard trips there (1997, 1999, and 2001), we did the
German Channel less than 5 times, total.

The Peliliu is a must, even if you get blown away 2 miles by the
changing tide.


> Maybe I hit it the wrong week, but the weather was okay.

I did it once in July and caught the monsoon. 12-14 foot swell made
the Blue Corner and other good open water sites inaccessible. We
did one dive on the CALMEST Cove we could find one day. Thta was
the only dive I've ever done in my life where none of the divers
(including the DM) saw bottom, shore, or fish anything during the
entire 10-15 minute dive. Everyone was scrambling for dear
life in the 10-ft swell to get back on the boat. Quite an experience.
Beware of the monsoon season there!


> I maintain that
> coldwater divers suffer when with a few warm water cousins.
> The sites are picked to suit those who are used to flat calm seas.

Compared to the 50 foot swell of the North Sea, I supppose 10 ft
seas are flat and calm.

> What is rough to them is a gentle swell to us. BTW, there were
> three coldwater divers in our group, and all hold the same opinion.

That's what you call stereotypical error for those who likes to
stereotype everything.

What Nigel didn't know is that 8 foot swells are about the TOP limit
for the tenders (with about 1 foot bottom clearance to negotiate the
shallow parts of the best known Palau sites to get to the dive sites
such as the Blue Corner.


So far, Brotha' lasersully (Nigel Kelleher) were wrong about
liveaboard diving in Palau and warm water divers.


> I have yet to see the best that Palau has to offer, so I would go
> back; not with the Ocean Hunter though!
> Cheers,
> Nigel Kelleher.

I hope he tried the Palau Aggressor or the Peter Hughes Sun Dancer.

-- Bob.

Thanks for the info....any word on where to stay ashore ?? Pan Pacific sounds
nice but pricey...

"LaserSully" <lasersully@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the info....any word on where to stay ashore ?? Pan Pacific
> sounds
> nice but pricey...
Laser,
see my review of Palau diving and the Carolines resort.
http://divingtheblue.com/palau.htm
May be what you want
Good luck
Tim

www.DivingTheBlue.com

> > I have yet to see the best that Palau has to offer, so I would go
> > back; not with the Ocean Hunter though!
> > Cheers,
> > Nigel Kelleher.
>
> I hope he tried the Palau Aggressor or the Peter Hughes Sun Dancer.
>
> -- Bob.



As I said, never saw the best Palau had to offer. The Captain had only
one thing on his mind - Rainbow Hunter, a flying boat no less, due for
start up in '97. Doubt if it was a long-term success. Probably went
the same way as Sea & Sea (Carl Roessler's dive travel company), Carl
was a partner in the R. Hunter.


Got to see Truk (sorry, Chuuk) on the Odyssey last October. Now THAT
was some trip!!!! We were taken everywhere.

Cheers,

Nigel - still diving after all those years .....

seadeuce@oceanfree.net (Nigel) wrote in message news:<1f1f5620.0410111213.2a510dfd@posting.google. com>...
> > > I have yet to see the best that Palau has to offer, so I would go
> > > back; not with the Ocean Hunter though!
> > > Cheers,
> > > Nigel Kelleher.
> >
> > I hope he tried the Palau Aggressor or the Peter Hughes Sun Dancer.
> >
> > -- Bob.
>
>
>
> As I said, never saw the best Palau had to offer. The Captain had only
> one thing on his mind - Rainbow Hunter, a flying boat no less, due for
> start up in '97. Doubt if it was a long-term success. Probably went
> the same way as Sea & Sea (Carl Roessler's dive travel company), Carl
> was a partner in the R. Hunter.

As I said, I hoped your tried the Palau Aggressor or the Peter
Hughes Sun Dancer. Appareently you never did, and is still whining
about the Rainbow Hunter (which is ok), but wtill whining about Palau
liveaboard diving -- of which you seemed to know NOTHING -- other
than that one trip on the Rainbow Hunter, which is not what one
expects of an informed diver.

>
>
> Got to see Truk (sorry, Chuuk) on the Odyssey last October. Now THAT
> was some trip!!!! We were taken everywhere.

What has THAT got to do with Palau?

Also if you review the postings about Truk (Chuuk) liveaboard diving,
you'll find other liveaboards in Chuuk besides the Odyssey. The
Thorfinn, e.g., has had numerous fans and raving reviews.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Nigel - still diving after all those years .....

Likewise.

-- Bob.

"Reef Fish" <Large_Nassau_Grouper@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:8fb7380b.0410112147.564ea84f@posting.google.c om...

> Also if you review the postings about Truk (Chuuk) liveaboard diving,
> you'll find other liveaboards in Chuuk besides the Odyssey. The
> Thorfinn, e.g., has had numerous fans and raving reviews.

The Thorfinn only counts its fans and raving reviews from those who haven't
been on the Odyssey.

"Greg Mossman" <mossman@qnet.com> pounded away at his keyboard
resulting in:
:The Thorfinn only counts its fans and raving reviews from those who haven't
:been on the Odyssey.

Chances are, there are very few people who have been on both boats.

Dan Bracuk
Is it my imagination, or do Buffalo Wings taste like chicken?
The Best of rec.scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/


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