Renting gear and places to dive through South Pacific Islands

[Zeke XA3]

Ok, so i am about to take a 7 month break from working as an OWSI and jumping on a friends boat to sail from San Diego to Sydney. But since it is a small boat there will be no compressor so i will not be diving from the boat...

However it will be my mission to steer the boat near as many dive shops as i can and i am wondering if you look at this list

french polynesia, cook islands, samoa, fiji, new caledonia

or at this map

Wanderlust V - Wanderlust V - The Pacific Adventure

if you can recommend a few good places to dive and where, nearby, i could rent tanks etc from. I will have all my own gear but would need extra for other crew diving with me. I would be looking to probably rent the gear and take on our boat rather than pay to go with a guide but if the price isnt much different they of course id consider it.

Any help would be great!!

 

[laurenceh]

RANGIROA, repeat rangiroa, in the tuamoto atolls. dive taputa pass, it's one of the best dives in the world. we dove with six passengers diving, this is not a dive to attempt without a local divemaster/guide, good rental gear and fantastic dive guides. lots of dolphins, huge schools of eagle rays and barracuda, giant manta rays and sharks, great hammerhead, silky, ocean silvertip, reef, blacktip, lots of sharks.

 

[Frosty]

If you are diving in and around Mololo islands Fiji Then I'd suggest Musket Cove resort. The boats are good and the Gear is well serviced.

 

[Zeke XA3]

RANGIROA, repeat rangiroa, in the tuamoto atolls. dive taputa pass, it's one of the best dives in the world. we dove with six passengers diving, this is not a dive to attempt without a local divemaster/guide, good rental gear and fantastic dive guides. lots of dolphins, huge schools of eagle rays and barracuda, giant manta rays and sharks, great hammerhead, silky, ocean silvertip, reef, blacktip, lots of sharks.

Any Dive Op names??

Ill stick this on my list and see if i can draw it on our path Why do you not suggest without a local DI/DM?

If you are diving in and around Mololo islands Fiji Then I'd suggest Musket Cove resort. The boats are good and the Gear is well serviced.

Cool, ill add them to the list to check out if we pass by.

 

[laurenceh]

in rangiroa dive with six passengers dive shop, they're on the beach in the lagoon near taputa pass. why use d.m./guide? taputa pass is a super fast drift dive (the worlds second largest atoll is for the most part filling and emptying thru this one pass-if you enter the water in the wrong spot or at the wrong time re. the tide, you could be in for a lot of problems.