This is the most commonly asked question. The answer is, there are as many different types of dive holidays as there are divers looking for that "something special!"

Whether your ideal dive holiday is:

• A romantic getaway with a little bit of diving
• Full on action packed adrenalin pumping diving
• Full on wreck or wreck and reef combo
• Technical diving or training
• A family resort with some casual diving
• An off the beaten track adventure to far flung reefs, atolls and islands.

We can customise that "something special" just for you.

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• Fiji, Vanuatu, Niue, Great Barrier Reef, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Truk Lagoon, Marshall Islands, Liveaboards

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Take a look at these useful information pages on our website.

• Can't decide where to go ? - A very helpful guide showing different diving activities in different locations.
• Compare our prices - A page describing the various marketing tactics other travel agents play.
• Helpful Price Guide - This page is a guide that will help you with your holiday planning, and to buy at the best prices.

Sorry to burst your Easter bubble, but if you want a dive holiday this winter, you need to think about it NOW! The good resorts at the good dive destinations are already starting to fill up over their prime diving time, and some are already full. We are not just saying this to get you to book: we're saying it now so you don't miss out!

Places we know will be very full: And you need to book early

Tonga and Niue : during the humpback whale season July – Sept

Fiji : Taveuni in Aug/Sept

Solomon Islands: Premier Wreck location. Often dive operation are small and don't cater for large numbers. Often groups book early go to the Solomon's. This often means locations are booked out early, and putting detailed itineraries to 2 or 3 dive locations within the Solomons can be difficult, so you don't back track.

Vanuatu : Cheap Virgin Blue flights are flying from Australia to Vanuatu. This will mean Santo is likely to be a sell out during the peak of winter.

Liveaboard : Most of the popular Liveaboards in the premier location fill well in advance, particularly the 7 day trips.

Why is it that once our clients have dived from a liveaboard dive boat they seldom go back to land based options ?

The avid diver knows the advantages of live-aboard diving - you cruise to remote unpoiled reefs to find superior marine life, big pelagic fish and undamaged reefs. Since the big live-aboards anchor at the dive sites you can do up to four dives per day, including a night dive.

With air-conditioned cabins, sumptuous chef-prepared meals, hostess in attendance and unparalleled crew generally service (up to one crew member for every three passengers), the live-aboards offer some of the best diving in South Pacific.

Experience exciting drift and wall dives, superb fish life with BIG schools of pelagic fish, night dives, soft corals, a shark feeding station. On a liveaboard trip you will see more spectacular marine life in the course of one day than you would see on a whole trip elsewhere.

Liveaboard vessels will spoil you for future diving. Huge undercover dive decks, unique entry/exit platforms and large inflatable dive enders make diving a breeze.

Set departures

All liveaboards have set schedules, mostly 7 or 14 days, although some offer 3 or 4 days in Queensland.

Don't be fooled:

Into thinking you can phone up and say "I want to go on the trip next month", as most of the best liveaboard sailings are sold out well in advance.

As you are reading this Directors Ron & Christine Blake are leading a liveaboard adventure to Cocos Island, Costa Rica, for 19 days, a trip which has been 18 months in the planning.

Special Charters by Dive Fish Snow Travel

	Palau: 29 June - 10 July 2006 : MV Big Blue Explorer... Details >
	Truk Lagoon: 10 September 2006: SS Thorfinn Details >
	Raja Empat Island - West Papua: 15 Nov - 30 Nov 2006 : Seven Seas' Details >
	Mike Ball Dive Expedition to PNG : November 2007 : MV Paradise Sports : For Details contact mike@divefishsnow.co.nz Tour Leader Dave Moran, Editor of Dive New Zealand Magazine.

Free Unbiased and Objective Advice on where to dive

Any one can look at the Dive resort website or a brochure. There are thousands of them and they all have one thing in common - they all claim to be the best! So how do you know if they really are as good as they claim and will suit you ? Here at Dive Fish Snow Travel, we offer a lot of quality locations that we have personally checked out. If they don't meet our high standards, we won't sell them. We will only offer what best suits your requirements and budget combined with outstanding diving and service.

We have the expertise and first hand knowledge to give you truly unbiased and objective advice on where to go for your next dive holiday. And its free to you, as its the resorts, operators and Airline that pay us our commission, not you our client.

Espiritu Santo, just a short flight from Port Vila, is home to the "SS President Coolidge" - one of the World's largest diveable shipwrecks. The luxury liner was converted to a troopship during WWII and sank just off the coast, making easy access available from the shore or a boat. To explore the "Coolidge" in its entirety would take more than 20 different dives to the ballrooms, cargo holds, decks and superstructure, with an amazing collection of jeeps, trucks, cases of rifles and other articles of war to be seen.

But Espiritu Santo has a lot more to offer than just the "Coolidge": colourful reef diving, sportfishing, kayaking, snorkelling, tours to local Kustom villages, the picturesque Blue Holes, magnificent beaches, conservation areas and caves to explore.

AQUAMARINE

The most qualified dive shop in Vanuatu, Aquamarine is a registered PADI Resort, SSI Instructor Training Facility, SDI Instructor Development Facility and TDI Instructor Trainer Facility. Diving the Coolidge promises to be the most adventurous wreck diving you may ever do and to ensure your safety and fun, Aquamarine has the most highly trained guides on the Coolidge. They have logged over 30,000 combined dives on the wreck and are fully qualified to cater to novice, advanced and technical divers. Aquamarine services include boat and shore dives to all of Santo's wreck and reef sites including Million Dollar Point and the SS Tucker, as well as gear hire, Nitrox, and Trimix. Guides may also be hired for personal tours - ideal for photographers and qualified tech divers.

CORAL QUAYS RESORT

Experience the traditional charm of a lovely estate villa, combined with the soothing effect of sparkling blue waters that lap the beachfront.

Coral Quays is an oceanfront resort featuring superior individual private ensuite bungalows blending into 6 acres of lush tropical gardens. The resort is located in San Michel Bay, just a breath away from the town, with easy access to all the activities, tours and dive locations of Espiritu Santo. Snorkel off the jetty, try your hand at sportfishing, relax by the swimming pool or enjoy a traditional Melanesian massage before a romantic waterside dinner in one of Vanuatu's finest restaurants.

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