Dive Review of Peter Hughes Star Dancer in
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Peter Hughes Star Dancer, Apr, 2006, by Terry Gee, TX, USA ( Sr. Reviewer 9 reports with 1 Helpful vote). Report 2475.
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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
Advanced
Comments	The Star Dancer is the best of the three Peter Hughes boats that I have taken my groups aboard. It is spacious with relatively large rooms and lavatories in each, a spacious dive deck and dive platform, a warm and comfortable lounge/dining room, a nice library/theatre/botique on the lower deck and a large sun deck with ample shade, sun and hammocks and lounge furniture on the upper deck. Everyone in my group of 14 loved the boat and the crew. The crew is warm, accommodating, friendly and interacts with the guests in a most pleasant manner. Captain Raabe is a pure delight to be with and extremely entertaining. The diving is nothing short of spectacular with five dives a day, no profiles or time limits set for the guests, dive masters in the water to point out critters (which is a great help as so many of them are so small I would have never seen them without that help)and new dive sites with almost every dive. Divers were accounted for by each having a name tag attached to them prior to each dive and retrieved by the crew upon exiting the water.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Palau, Guam, Philipines, Viet Nam, Truk, most locations in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Sea of Cortez, off of Southern California, extensively for more than 40 years
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm
Water Temp	86-90°F / 30-32°C	Wetsuit Thickness	0
Water Visibility	55-120 Ft/ 17-37 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	No diving restrictions except no drinking and diving but no one was watching to see if someone had a beer and then dived two hours later.
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
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		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Camera facilities included a clean and spacious dedicated rinse tank, a dedicated camera table and work space and a charging station for batteries. It seems like I am the only dinasour using convential photography these days as the digital wave sweeps over the rest of the dive community, so the onboard development of slides is no longer up and running. Cameras were carried to the dive deck by the crew and passed to the divers in the water. Care in handeling the equipment was always exercised.

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Dive Review of Peter Hughes Star Dancer in Papua New Guinea/New Britan

Peter Hughes Star Dancer, Apr, 2006,

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What I Saw

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Dive Review of Peter Hughes Star Dancer in
Papua New Guinea/New Britan