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Peter Hughes, Apr, 2007, by Lynn Hudak, San Diego, United States ( Reviewer 3 reports with 1 Helpful vote). Report 4009 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
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Comments	I realized after just returning from a great diving experience that I should have written about our terrible experience to save people from going through it. Last spring we spent a week on the Peter Hughes liveaboard in the Maldives. I booked the trip based on the reputation of the company. What a mistake. The boat had by far the largest cockroaches I have ever seen. They intended to serve us poorly desalinated drinking water instead of fresh, which after many complaints was replaced with bottled water. The first water was undrinkable. The diesel smell in our quarters was nauseating. And this was not the worst part of the trip. The dive operation was. There was one young and inexperienced (in terms of managing people) divemaster. The captain of the boat dove with us sometimes but he was along for the dive, not helping to manage it. Our fellow divers were careless and routinely bragged about coming up with no air left even in their pony tanks. The divemaster did nothing to manage this and her approach created unnecessarily dangerous diving conditions. The currents often were ripping and we were put in DOWNCURRENT of where we needed to be, routinely, necessitating dragging yourself along the bottom to try to get near the site and frequently being swept off the reef altogether. I reported all this to our dive travel agent when we returned home and he spoke to someone from the Peter Hughes company but no one ever contacted us to discuss our complaints. I would strongly discourage anyone from taking this trip with this operator.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Palau, Tuamotu area of French Polynesia, Fiji, Honduras
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm, currents
Water Temp	80-80°F / 27-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	0
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	Squadrons
Dolphins	1 or 2	Whale Sharks	1 or 2
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Peter Hughes in Maldives

Peter Hughes, Apr, 2007,

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Dive Review of Peter Hughes in
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