Dive Review of Kona Aggressor II in
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Kona Aggressor II: "Worst trip ever on Kona Aggressor", Jun, 2017, by Susan Molchan, MD, US ( Sr. Reviewer 7 reports with 10 Helpful votes). Report 10007 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude	N/A	Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	My 3 buddies and I from FLorida all have 1500+ dives over decades of diving and multiples trips on liveaboards. Two of the crew members of this boat set a very unpleasant tome with their bad attitudes, to include cursing, in front of and even at guests. They clearly made the passengers and the rest of the crew uncomfortable, Two of my friends are in their 60s and I'm close--we don't walk our tanks down the ladders on these boats, and take out tanks off in the water. Everywhere we've gone, crew are always very accomadating. These guys complained about it as if they had never had to do this before for anyone. The captain was one of those with the poor attitude and we felt the dive sits were limited --we could have move to more of them and seen more of a variety and their is not a lot of coral or variety in the areas we went to. The blackwater dive was disappointing and again we had the feeling he didn't bother to take us out to where we should be. Also thought it was tacky when a divemaster grabbed a puffer to make him expand. We enjoyed the manta dive, but said next time we'll stay in one of the hotels right offshore from it and do it. The crew was good at finding frogfish and we enjoyed the usual array of Pacific tropicals. A few nudibranchs, even 1 tiger shark that I spotted overhead hightailing it away from us. Dive briefings were skimpy and although my buddies and I were happy to be diving on own own, we were often concerned about a woman from Japan who had come alone and seemed to be a much less experienced diver than us. She was often off my herself, and deeper than everyone else, or surfacing in the middle of a dive, diving rather erratically. The divemasters generally ignored her. We also thought it was tacky when a divemaster grabbed a puffer to have it expand. (Also upsetting) The food was very good and the cook accomadating. One of my friends wrote to the Waynes--Aggressor owners--and in return received basically a form letter in return though saying that they will be "counseling" the involved crew.
Websites	Kona Aggressor II
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Australia, Fiji, Maldives, Galapagos, Palau, Yap, all over Caribbean & FLorida, NC
Closest Airport	Kona Int'l	Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	76-78°F / 24-26°C	Wetsuit Thickness	5
Water Visibility	30-100 Ft/ 9-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	It was pretty free-gloating but officially 1 hour, 100 feet I think[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	Squadrons
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Kona Aggressor II in Hawaii/Kona

Kona Aggressor II: "Worst trip ever on Kona Aggressor", Jun, 2017,

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Dive Review of Kona Aggressor II in
Hawaii/Kona