French Polynesia

[oceanfreedom]

Hi everyone!
This coming August I will be going to French Polynesia for a few days and I wonder what are the best places to photograph sharks.
I will be in Bora Bora first for a few days and then I want to go somewhere else but I haven't decided yet. I have been reading that Fakarava Island has some really good diving.
Does any one has any recommendations?
Thanks for your help.

 

[paulw]

I have dove there, mostly Moorea in May of 2009. The diving is pretty much the same and there were MANY sharks on every dive. There had been a Crown of Thorn invasion just before I came and a lot of the reefs were in sad condition but the diving was still great. I dove with Bathys Diving www.bathys-diving.com and was very happy with them. I am at work and don't have my best pictures but maybe this will give you an idea of the sharks, they were everywhere. The first picture is of a lemon, he was a big boy, about 17ft

 

[laurenceh]

head to rangiroa, wall to wall sharks in taputa pass. we saw reef, blacktip, great hammerhead, silkys, oceanic silvertips and more plus mantas, huge schools of barracuda and lots of dolphins. i highly recommend six passenger dive company.

 

[TSandM]

Most of the islands we dove in French Polynesia did shark feeding dives, and we saw a lot of sharks, but that's not really how I prefer to see them. It does make for some dramatic photographs, though.

We may have been the most unlucky folks in the history of Tiputa Pass, but we saw no sharks there. We DID see reef sharks in the blue water off the Rangiroa reef, and a manta, and dolphins; if sharks are not the ONLY reason you dive, I cannot say enough good things about Rangiroa. It's one of the best places in the world that I have dived -- gorgeous, healthy, vibrant reef systems with a density of fish life you just have to experience to believe. I would assume Fakarava would be quite similar.

 

[Carnell04]

head to rangiroa, wall to wall sharks in taputa pass. we saw reef, blacktip, great hammerhead, silkys, oceanic silvertips and more plus mantas, huge schools of barracuda and lots of dolphins. i highly recommend six passenger dive company.

Did anybody have sea sickness with their smaller type boats? How rough was it on the surface? Do upu get into the water quick once the stops? How far are the rides? I've gotten sea sick twice on boats that were small. Do they do one dive and come back for a surface interval? Thanks.