Dive Review of Dive Palau/Palau Dive.com in
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Dive Palau/Palau Dive.com, Mar, 2007, by scott johnson, ca, usa ( Sr. Contributor 20 reports). Report 3243.
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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
Beginners
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Comments	March 1st thru the 14th…I believe this is my 7th trip report on Palau in as many years. Again this year I had a very well known person sitting next to me flying to Palau. Dan Bailey who has discovered many of the wrecks in Truk and Palau. He pulled out his books he has published on Palau and Truk and showed me many of the original wreck pictures as they were discovered before “us” divers got to them. He does remarkable work with the BentStar.org people who are still trying to locate MIA’s from WWII. I was fortunate to be able to attend his talk during wreck week at Sams and have dinner with him one evening. During the week I was there, Pat with BentStar along with other speakers was giving a presentation nightly about WWII. The Diving, again the best and diving with Keith Santillano of Dive Palau..(Palaudive.com) was again the best! This year for the first time I noticed a few thermoclines down to a bone chilling 79 degrees…..usually is and was 82 to 83. Also visibility was not as good as usual but the weather was a vast improvement over last year. With the cooler currents rising from below a few people had been spotting the Great Hammerheads….Not me!....The first dive at the Blue corner was fabulous as usual. I was Down at about 95’ I could see about 30’ below me a very large school of schooling Grey reef sharks with a big Silvertip (about 9’) in the middle of them. Did the Ulong channel a couple of times what a great dive….the Cabbage patch coral, croc fish, sharks, wrasses, giant clams etc etc….Had my first 75 minute dive. One of my favorite dive sites Turtle cove this year had visibility problems….although Turtle cove usually only has 60’ vis this time it was 30’ to 50’ a little disappointing. The further north you went the vis was better. Overall this is still the most diversified place I have dove.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Truk, Christmas Island, Rangiroa, Fakarava, Costa Rica, Red Sea, Australia, Galapagos, Hawaii, Bali, east Timor etc.
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy	Seas	calm, choppy, currents, noCurrents
Water Temp	79-83°F / 26-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	2
Water Visibility	30-70 Ft/ 9-21 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	Schools	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	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 Dive Palau/Palau Dive.com in Micronesia/Palau

Dive Palau/Palau Dive.com, Mar, 2007,

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Dive Review of Dive Palau/Palau Dive.com in
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