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See my review I just added. End of their season was perfect given that the live aboards all leave the region, and sites were all to ourselves. Actual dive conditions were great - great vis, smooth seas, plenty of sun, all of the creatures underwater from mantas, to wobbegong sharks, to nudis, to...

Trip Report for The Cove So we were at The Cove from approx May 25 to June 2nd (?), 2025. It was their last week before the dive staff got a well deserved month long vacation and the resort closed to guests for some maintenance. We were thinking we were taking a chance on weather and dive...

Follow up question: we head out May 22nd for Cove Eco resort and wonder if the WiFi signal is as weak as they say? Did you know anyone who had a Telkomsel SIM/eSIM? Did that work at the Cove? They say iPhones don’t work there. Did you find this to be true today? (And yes I know we’re supposed to...

Thanks for your review. We are headed there in May!

Commenting to follow this. We just booked that exact scenario and are trusting it'll be fine. We have plenty of buffer in SIN before continuing home, so can recover there as needed.

This is helpful! Love your Aldora comment. We dive with them too - and I had a new 3/2 wetsuit these last visits (December 21 and March 22), had 81F water the entire time and I wished I had a vest to add to it. So this comment helps answer the question I was just googling about. Should I get a...

I was just scouring the internet for answers on this question. None of my doctors really even know what I'm asking since they have no clue about the physiology of diving. I'm primarily trying to understand lymphedema since I had a meeting with a PT today (pre-double mastectomy; no radiation; no...

Hello reefsong, This is quite an old thread but I am researching the same questions as you here in 2019. How did you get along? Did you end up with the Tamoxifen and did you keep diving? I'm thinking of avoiding all need for radiation and tamoxifen by a double mastectomy and hoping that extends...

So sad. I dived with him at his dive center in Rodrigues (an out island of Mauritius) and met his family at his home. Absolutely a character and a passionate diver. I hope his dear wife and daughter are doing ok after this tragic loss.

Heading to Fakarava and Manihi, FP next November. Taking Rescue Diver right now, as I type. Not interested in restrictions like we experienced the first time there five years ago (2013). My husband has almost 500 dives and me, 275, and it is just frustrating being put on the beginner boat since...

About five years ago we did an 8 day trip to Bora Bora and Rangiroa. Diving in Rangiroa was epic. The Kia Ora resort is by far the most luxurious and was really quite wonderful. I'm remembering it broke the bank, but then it was a perfect experience in a dreamy setting! Splurge if it is your...

Well, I JUST asked some French friends who own a dive center in FP this exact question! Me and my husband will get Rescue Diver before we go in Nov. 2018 and I was asking our friend if SSI would be just as good as PADI in the minds of the French diving authorities who define equivalents with the...

Hello! I have the same question. Who did you dive with in the end?! Thanks!

Thank you JMBL - yes the cross over will be the key if we want to have zero problems in France or French Polynesia. I'll do my PADI Rescue Diver, probably here in Paris because I have time right now, and then will also look into a cross-over option so there would be no question in the future. :)...

Thanks Freewillow. "Francophone" is the wrong word. Should say "France and related to France." I am French speaking but not French, living my 12th year in France, and basically avoid diving in France, and just totally gave up on a trip to French Polynesia (they follow the FFESSM system) because...

I live in France, and dived around Collioure and Montpellier this summer with my AOW Padi and Nitrox certifications. No medical certificate was asked for. The shops were super super nice, but then we only dived to 20m max so nothing to argue really. We have our dive gear with us in Paris, but...