Diving in Moorea was outstanding. I am glad we picked Bathy’s to dive with. I found a coupon on the internet, good for a 10% discount, making our dives $50 each. Located at the Beachcomber Hotel near Hapiti, they have a well qualified staff who make your diving very enjoyable. We met some great people and made 12 excellent dives. We dove at such places as Taotoi Pass, Taotoi outer Reef, Tiki, Opunohu’s Canyons, and the Rose Garden.
Sharks are the name of the game on Moorea–-4’-5’ black tips, 8’ grays, and 10’-12’ lemons. None are aggressive. However, you do not want to get in between the dive master feeding them tuna heads-–by hand. The sharks made for great pictures, as did the eels, octopus, scorpion fish, trigger fish, tuna, turtles, and many varieties of small reef fish.
The average depth of the dives were 60’-80’; all with 150’ visibility. The variety of hard coral is extensive. I took a couple hundred underwater pictures, and Mike shot more than three hours of video.
The best dive on Moorea is the Rose Garden. It is an advanced dive, due to the depth, minimum of 130" to the rose coral beds. It is like flying, as you slowly drop from the surface to the pristine rose coral beds below. It is a memorable experienced. Our no decompression dive lasted 40 minutes.