A roundup on dive travel and marine related stories
Posted in # Fly&Dive Packages, - Dive Resorts, Dive Travel on Jul 31st, 2009
And you thought that hopping on a couple of planes for 48 hours to end up at a nice tropical island hideaway resort in Papua New Guinea for a weeks diving is the ultimate in going remote? Think again. Lissenung Island Resort just completed a 9 day expedition starting from their Resort in Kavieng, Papua [...]
Posted in # Fly&Dive Packages, - Airlines, - Dive Resorts, Dive Travel on Jul 21st, 2009
UPDATED TAXES FOR PNG PACKAGES 22JUL09 With lower fuel cost and increasing competition on international flights to Port Moresby, Air Niugini has substantially reduced it’s tour based airfares to PNG, home of the world’s best tropical dive locations. This has allowed DIVERSION DIVE TRAVEL to substantially drop the cost of dive tour packages from Australia [...]
Posted in # Hot Deals, - Dive Resorts, Dive Travel on Apr 22nd, 2009
Qamea is a magical place to the East of Taveuni in Fiji. They just anounced great low season stay/pay specials during the coming high season. For as little as $US247.00 per person/per night, with all gourmet meals, you can enjoy the award winning all beachfront, all air conditioned, Qamea Resort & Spa, the most intimate beach [...]
Posted in # Hot Deals, - Dive Resorts, Dive Travel on Apr 17th, 2009
15 April 2009: In reaction to the global economic crisis, the FIJI Reserve Bank has devalued the Fijian Dollar by by 20%. As a result most Fiji Dive Resorts are 20% cheaper until further notice. Until the prices are updated in the system here an overview on popular 7 nights packages, twin share, 10 dives, [...]
Posted in - Dive Resorts, Trip Report on Mar 13th, 2009
by Nina Joost, March 09 Ange and Dietmar, the owners of Lissenung Island, have come a long way since they first set up their little Robinson island in the mid 1990s. The rough edges have been ‘filed away’, and without changing the lovely and unpretentious setting of this quiet and remote island, they have made [...]
Posted in # Hot Deals, - Dive Resorts on Feb 16th, 2009
MATAVA Resort has just finished renovating and is inviting divers and non divers alike to experience Paradise without a big ecological footprint. Their Mix & Match packages cater for every interset and need. For more info: http://diversionOZ.com/en/fiji/matavaresort.htm MIX AND MATCH PACKAGES If you partner wants to learn to dive or just snorkel or explore [...]
Posted in - Dive Resorts, U/W Photography on Aug 27th, 2007
When most people think of Lembeh Strait, they think of small animals, black sand, and muck diving. But if you’re an underwater photographer, you may want to reconsider what lenses to bring. When you dive Lembeh and other traditional macro destinations, approach these areas with a different perspective , to see just what the other [...]
Posted in - Dive Resorts, Trip Report on May 8th, 2007
For the last two years I had spent my holidays in Sulawesi, diving at Bunaken and Lembeh Strait. To break the growing addiction to muck diving, I decided to check out the dive scene in Bali, and to join Mermaid I on a seven night live-aboard to Komodo. Bali To get away from the Kuta/Legian [...]
Posted in - Dive Resorts on May 8th, 2007
Lissenung Island Dive Resort in Papua New Guinea 08:00 minutes [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q1S5wrx5xQ] Lissenung Island Resort- A perfect hideaway for divers and people who like to get away from it all. Nature, culture and first class diving – Tufi has it all 10:25 minutes [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtySwAPWFYE] Tufi Dive Resort in PNG offers all highlights of Papua New Guinea [...]
Posted in # Hot Deals, - Dive Resorts, U/W Photography on May 6th, 2007
Manta Fest Special:For travel in the months of September and October 2007, we offer a US$150 discount on all packages for guests staying seven or more nights. Photographers Marty Snyderman and Dave Fleetham Headline Yap’s Manta Fest Learn from the most respected underwater photographers in the world during Manta Ray Bay Hotel’s Manta Fest in [...]
