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Pohnpei Surf Club/Mangrove Bay Hotel]: "It rains here - a lot", Oct, 2019, by David Ritchie, CA, US ( Sr. Reviewer 7 reports with 5 Helpful votes). Report 11184 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Pohnpei, "The Garden Island", is a wet high volcanic island with surrounding dryer atolls. Kolonia gets 190 inches of rain yearly with about 1/2 inch nearly every day. The mountains get over 400 inches. Runoff limits the visibility to about 30 feet inside the surrounding reef. Visibility at Ant Atoll is much better. Mangrove Bay Hotel has eight nice rooms on the water at the edge of town. Pohnpei Surf Club and its boats are located at the hotel. Several good restaurants are nearby. Kolonia is a busy port town. Pohnpei Surf Club is a well run operation offering surfing, diving, sightseeing and fishing trips. Alois, the owner, pays close attention to the weather and incoming and outgoing tides when planning dive trips to the reef passes, walls or Ant Atoll. We enjoyed the diving. We should have planned for more days. We dove three days out of a possible four and sat out the stormy fourth dive day. Island hopping cuts into possible dive days because of limited flight availability and timing. We visited Kosrae and Pohnpei on this trip. Pohnpei has an interesting history. Be sure to visit Nan Madol if the opportunity presents itself, like on the day before you fly or if it is not raining too hard.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Caribbean (many), Cozumel, S. Pacific (Fiji x 7) Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, Baja California, Monterey Bay, Hawaii, Philippines, Micronesia, Indonesia
Closest Airport	PNI	Getting There	United Island Hopper, UA 154 westbound, UA 155 eastbound, twice a week. There is also a flight from Guam, UA 132?
Dive Conditions
Weather	rainy	Seas	currents
Water Temp	83-85°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	2
Water Visibility	30-90 Ft/ 9-27 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	drift diving with a guide
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	no
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 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	No camera facilities.

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Dive Review of Pohnpei Surf Club/Mangrove Bay Hotel] in Micronesia/Pohnpei

Pohnpei Surf Club/Mangrove Bay Hotel]: "It rains here - a lot", Oct, 2019,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

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Reporter and Travel

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What I Saw

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Dive Review of Pohnpei Surf Club/Mangrove Bay Hotel] in
Micronesia/Pohnpei