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Planning a winter dive holiday ? Sorry to burst your summer bubble, but if you want a dive holiday this winter and you want the best deal, you need to think about it NOW! The good resorts at the good dive destinations are already starting to fill up over their prime winter 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 on the good deals! Contact us sooner rather than later Places we know will be very full: And you need to book early
Act sooner, not later, to get what you want, and Save $$ It is widely expected that the NZ dollar will drop this year. By booking now you can also take advantage of the strong NZD as Dive Fish Snow Travel Buys forward exchange on your behalf. You still pay a deposit as normal, balance 6 weeks prior to departure. Again booking early can give you even greater savings. Early bird smart saver plan. Pay for your holiday on Drip Feed. Pay as little as $58 a week from now until winter and enjoy a diving trip to the South Pacific. Contact us for details.
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VANUATU : Aore Resort Special
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Port Vila VANUATU : Includes
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| Liveaboard Diving - The ultimate way to Dive | ||
 "Bilikiki"
Liveaboard Group Trip Russell Islands Solomon Islands 26 July – 3 Aug 2005 7 nights on board the Bilikiki – one of the best live-aboard dive boats in the world. Unlimited diving included with the dive day built around five daily dives. If your computer and past dive activities permit it we can schedule additional dives. Price includes return airfares ex Auckland to Honiara, transfers, 1 night's accommodation in Brisbane, 7 nights accommodation & all meals on board Bilikiki and 5 dives per day – tanks, weights and dive guide provided, if required. Only $4,365 per person
South America Here we come April 2006 - YES
2006
Poor Knights Weekend! - Only
4 places left $350 per person Come along and dive with our Dive Staff, Live aboard style at the Poor Knights onboard the "Pacific Hideaway", a 50FT catamaran based in Tutukaka. Join Dive Fish Snow Dive Team, Ron, Christine, Elaine and Steve, on Friday night to ensure an early departure from Tutukaka, and a great day of diving on Saturday! We plan to have three dives during the day and a night dive for those keen to experience the Poor Knights after dark. On Sunday, have a dive before breakfast, and then another two magical dives before heading back into the marina by mid afternoon. We have complete flexibility to DIVE THE BEST SITES. Package includes accommodation and meals while onboard the "Pacific Hideaway". Air fills are $7.50 per 80cu.ft tank and are to be paid direct to the skipper. Transportation to and from Tutukaka is by your own arrangement and, yes, Dive Fish Snow Travel will shout you a few drinks. If you are interested Call Mike at (09) 918 5528 or email mike@divefishsnow.co.nz
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| Group Travels - The Low Down on Dive Groups |
Heard us talking about planning on taking a group diving to here, there and everywhere, and wondering what this “group” stuff is all about, and how would you fit in to this “group” business? It's not that scary and can be great!! Especially for the single diver – for starters, you wont be short of a dive buddy! Just some of the benefits associated with group travel:
Click here to see the latest Groups travelling in 2005/06.
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| Impressions of Palau and Yap by Elaine (Dive Team DFS) |
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If you are happy to do drift dives with free descents off a ‘live' chase boat, ride the currents along ‘bottomless', colourful walls, ‘hook on' at Blue Corner with a reef hook - dozens of sharks and thousands of fish around you, do your safety stops ‘out in the blue' with nothing to see but your dive buddies, then Palau may be the perfect dive experience for you. Palau has beautiful scenery above and below the water, well organized dive operators with experienced guides, comfortable boats and a vast choice of dive sites. Walls, caverns, WWII wrecks, channels and caves are all part of the incredible Palau diving experience. You fly to Palau from Cairns via Guam. The tiny capital of Koror has Internet Cafes, supermarkets and enough tourist shopping to keep you busy for a couple of hours. You have a choice of accommodations from a top class resort, hill top cabins, budget hotels or large live-aboard boats to get you out to the best diving areas. If you want to do 4 or 5 dives per day with minimum travel time – take a trip on one of the great liveaboard vessels operating in Palau. These boats pick up in Koror, the capital of Palau, and take you for a 7 night cruise with diving, accommodation, meals and soft drinks all included in the price. If you prefer two world class dives a day, a picnic lunch on a beach or moored in the lagoons of the famous Rock Islands, a luxury hotel with white sand beach, swimming pool, tennis and cocktails – that is available too. Fast dive boats (10 metres long with 400HP outboards) leave from Koror for a scenic cruise of 45 – 60 minutes through the Rock Islands out to the walls and channels. Some of the dive sites you will visit :- Blue Corner, Big Drop Off, Blue Holes, German Channel, Ngemelis Wall, New Drop Off and Ulong Channel. Peleliu island at the southern end of the chain offers Peleleiu Express, The Cut and Orange Beach. A trip to Peleleiu is not complete without an island tour to see the tanks, guns, foxholes and Japanese caves left behind on this tiny island, only 6 miles long, by the battle during WWII where over 10,000 soldiers died during the campaign. A few added attractions are
Yap
The local dive operator's ‘look don't touch' policy means that the mantas are used to divers and will approach closely without fear. Video camera in hand, I have had mantas settle down onto me on the reef as they enjoyed their cleaning experience and seemed to relax onto the coral. A photographers and videographers dream destination. Culturally, Yap is a fascinating place – the giant stone money, villages, beaches and mens houses are all available to see on island tours where a local guide will tell you the ancient stories and perhaps prepare a betel nut for you to try. The local people all chew betel nut – hence the red-toothed smiles that greet you everywhere in Yap. Put Micronesia on your wish list ………..Once you have dived Palau and Yap, the incredible wrecks of Truk Lagoon, live-aboard safaris in Majuro and the deep technical dives of Bikini await.Elaine
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spent 15 wonderful years working as an Instructor and dive master
all over the tropical diving world - two of those years in Palau
and one in Yap. These tiny islands in Micronesia provided some
of the most exciting and enjoyable dives I have ever done. Not
for the beginner diver - I would often see fellow dive guides who
had worked in Palau - diving the same sites every day for over
8 years - surface from a dive yelling with excitement having seen
30 - 50 grey reef and whitetip sharks, eagle rays, hundreds of
schooling barracuda, thousands of blue trigger fish, moray eels,
lion fish, schooling humphead parrotfish, nudibranchs, several
turtles and a leaf fish all on one dive – Blue Corner of course.
You will dive this site several times during your holiday. The
dive starts in different places along the wall and travels different
directions, depending on the tide and currents that day. 
Many
visitors to Palau also include a few days stopover on the neighbouring
island of Yap – renowned for the manta rays that
visit the current swept channels around the island. Visibility
can be variable, but nothing compares to the sight of a 4 meter
manta hovering a meter away from you. They are visiting a
cleaning station – an area of coral heads where mantas and sharks
visit daily to be cleaned, similar to a car wash. The cleaner fish
hurry about the giants bodies, gills and mouth removing parasites. |
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| To help Increase Customer Service |
| Meet Mike Budden, our newest addition to the
dive travel team. Mike joined Dive Fish Snow in December 2004 as
our Sales Support Role and he's not too shy to tell you a little
bit about himself!!! (did I say a little?).
“I have dived over 100 dives in New Zealand and am now a qualified Open Water Instructor! Overseas, I have dived in Fiji's Beqa Lagoon, Pacific Harbor, Coral Coast, and Tokoriki Island. I have also dived at Rottnest Island (WA Australia)”. “My most memorable dive was the Shark Encounter dive I took part in at Fiji's Beqa Lagoon. The experience was fantastic! We saw an impressive amount of schooling fish and a variety of pelagic species. The ferocity and speed of the Giant trevally's was amazing as was the elegance of the powerful and graceful Bull Shark. That dive gave me new found respect for all fish life, and one of the oceans large predators”. “As for my travel experience, my Diploma in Travel and Tourism has been fantastic! I have worked 3 years in Retail Travel. Now I am really lucky to have a job that combines my passion for diving and my diploma in travel and tourism. I look forward to working with you on your next diving adventure. Mike Budden
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