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Hi A bit late on this but thanks for posting it, a good balanced review. Can you please tell me what sites you did? We are interested in Olango Island.

We were in Hamata about 18 months ago. We stayed at Zabargad and dived with Orca. The resort is mid-range, rooms clean, lots of hot water, air-con worked. The furnishings were looking a bit shabby but it was all OK. Pools and exterior space well laid out, nice bit of beach. The food in the...

I saw the report on your web site but it would be really fantastic if you could load some more detail here... for example, did you see any sharks or larger species? All your images (very nice BTW) are small animals and lovely fish. And did you got to Malpelo? THanks in advance.

We just returned from Jordan - a week ago. We dived with Seastar but they are no longer in the Alcazar. Instead they are working with the Captain's hotel, just about opposite. We stayed at the Alcazar a few years back and I think the Captain's is better. Anyway, the diving is well worth the...

Hi, sorry about the slow reply. On Pemba we stayed at a place called Manta, right at the top of the island. It's quite a few years ago and was a little run down but I understand it's been done up since. The dive operation was fine, friendly DM and I don't recall any issues that would make me...

If you only have a week and only have the Xmas period, you are really pretty stuck with a much closer destination than Indonesia. Egypt is always cool and windy at that time, except for a few hours in the middle of the day so I would suggest Tanzania - the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba have warm...

Hi Teeden6 - have you tried doing a web search on a chamber?

Hi Tom, Thanks for this and at the moment, I think it's enough info. We are waiting on a few other things to get sorted and may look at booking for later this year. Would be highly amused to hear the smuggling story - if you don't want to post, understood, but you could send privately. BFN.

Hi Tom, Great to get a reply at last. You have certainly backed up what we have read, summed up as "great place, shame about the visibility." However, that's never stopped us, so please would you let me know - as we only have one week or maybe 10 days, which of the two destinations did you like...

We stayed at Hamata (Zabargad resort) and dived with Orca a year ago. We liked it a lot. The hotel is fine, the rooms could be smartened up a bit but the food was decent, lots of variety and so on. Our one complaint was to do with dishonest charging on drinks prices. They quote everything is £...

It's worth noting - now that we live on such a small planet - that magazines are produced in a region so have that region at heart. So if you want info on diving in Asia, try and get Asian Diver, in Australia the Aussie Sport Diving and so on. None of them are objective, and all of them have to...

Hi, I was looking for reports too, but for March of 2010. Hope someone will reply as someone on Scubaboard must have been. Fingers crossed.

Now what is most interesting is the not the average age bit what people are doing by decade - are we diving or paying our mortgages? diving or educating the rug-rats? Here's the numbers (yes, we added up about 30 of these pages, then we did get a bit bored): divers under 20: 30 divers 20 -29...

Thanks for the info - esp. on the batteries and charging. Much as I admire the ethics behind being eco, it's not all that practical sometimes. Shame about that but I have since heard that Mai Dive is also a good resort and they have power.

Hi Larry - hope your trip was great. We are thinking of heading to this area next year so a report on the diving would be would be fantastic. Also how did you find the resort and facilities for working on your cameras and charging?

HI, What scared him was the descriptions - and the fact that he read it quickly and only "absorbed" the negatives. I have to support him on this. We were away diving when he emailed me your link in a panic. I read it quickly as we were on a high-cost dial up connection and thought "oh, noooo"...

Hi all, Good to see such healthy discussion going on but - Debbie - I have to agree with Jack. Your reports are very hard to read which is probably why some people got the wrong end of it. I have to tell you that a very good friend read your report and tried to cancel his trip. He was...

Just wanted to add that this review - although it is so well written, it does at first glance make it seem like both Sten and Roca Partida are a bit dodgy! Nothing could be further from the truth! We dived twice with Nautilus and Sten was on board both times. His tales of the rare times things...

Hi, We have been on loads of liveaboards. We usually have a great time and we usually make good friends, but one thing we learnt is that there is always "one"... one person who hates everything and is only content once they let everyone else know it. Once you find out who that person is, you...

Hiya, sorry for the slow reply, was chasing mantas in Mexico - yes, great!! I think you would like Maratua, nice place for the kids, lots of space and a decent beach. The water bungalows are a bit nicer than the beach ones but those are good if you want to keep costs down. I don't recall the...