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Context Liveaboard: Turtle Spectacular by Mike Ball, northbound trip (booked directly) Dive Location: Great Barrier Reef Timeframe: November, 2023 My Credentials: PADI Advanced; 203 dives across 10 countries Trip Pictures: Mike Ball's Facebook post Review of Diving The excursion was an 8 day /...

I dove the GBR in 2014 with Mike Ball and loved it, but only did a short trip since I was a newbie diver. I'd really like to go back for a longer trip, but I'm worried about the reef health. Fwiw, the reports we get in the US and via word of mouth says that half the reef has died. Asia is a long...

Heading to Hamilton Island and the Great Barrier Reef next month. Although, I’m noticing a lot of dive companies only offering snorkel at the moment and that their diving is unavailable until further notice. Is it a COVID thing? Managed to find one way to scuba (from the Reefworld pontoon), but...

Hi All, I recently completed the RAID Open Water 20, just in time for our trip to Hamilton Island and the Great Barrier Reef next month. Although, I’m noticing a lot of dive companies only offering snorkel at the moment and that their diving is unavailable until further notice. Is it a COVID...

Hi everyone, my girlfriend (PADI OW, 15 dives) and me (PADI AOW, 30 dives) are going on a trip to Australia from Europe and want to combine it with a liveaboard diving trip. We have never done a liveaboard trip before so our expectations are not super-high - but at the same time we might not be...

Hi All - I joined the forum back in 2013 when I originally certified in the muddy pea soup of the Connecticut coastline, and after about 5 dives decided to move south for work. Did 1-2 shore dives in Destin, FL, and then life got in the way. Moved to CA in 2016 and found that somewhere along...

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My wife and I will be visiting friends in Brisbane in October. We are both experienced AOW divers. We live in Thailand dive regularly here. My wife would like to see the GBR. I'm assuming this means a side trip to Cairns with a couple days (or more) on a liveaboard. This would add four or more...

Hi mates, i'm planning a dive in the ribbon reef's in the GBR and i am a bit shock about the costs of the days trips, accommodations, etc..,any aussie or anyone who could give me some advice? i'd appreciate it so much cuz we are spending so much time in this plan and we are a bit lost, thank you.

Hi everyone, I and my boyfriend and are newly certified PADI open water. We will be in Port Douglas in January 2018 and look for recommendations. We are interested in a small group dives and/or a private tour (just for 2 of us), not deep, but enjoyable dive (up to 65 feet/20 meters). We would...

We are looking at making our first trip to Australia this September and have been looking at staying at either Heron or Lady Elliott Islands but I haven't seen a lot about either site in recent months. Does anyone have recent information on either or both sites. We are thinking about going...

Hello all, I am currently planning on doing a trip to Australia in July and have decided that liveaboard diving is the way to go. I am debating between going out on either the Spoilsport or the SOF as they both have boats leaving on the 20th going to the Coral Sea (from research what seems to...

I am still undecided on my 2017 diving trip, my travel dates shifted to May. I looked up multiple destinations, here is my shortlist. Investing a lot of time (flying from Europe) and a fair amount of money, I want to avoid dead reefs (Only 7% of the Great Barrier Reef has avoided coral bleaching...

I am Naui Certified from when I was in my 20's. I had open water 2 and one advanced course in ice diving completed. Some recreational diving in the Caribbean but most of it was cold water diving as a young enthusiast. Looking back. I was a relaxed , fit, normal weight diver who never used much...

Hi all, I'll be in Queensland in August and was planning to do a 3D/2N trip to the outer reef near Cairns, but after some more reading I'm considering some of the (much more expensive!) trips further north, specifically to the Ribbon Reefs. Are they "that much" better than anything further...

I was lucky to get on a trip in April diving from Torres Strait to Lizard Island. As part of the trip we had some volunteers undertake coral surveys and a blog was written. The survey information followed a simple CoralWatch method and has been uploaded to CoralWatch. Home - CoralWatch The...

Hello everyone, I started a blog to share my thoughts and experiences of certain dive sites I've travelled to all over the world. This is a on going blog so if you like what you read there will be updates every few days (unless travelling). I currently have 30 more dive sites to talk. 4 in...