Anybody dived barrier reef?

I did it through Prodive Cairns and got my open water cert.
It was 2 day's class room work and pool diving then 3 days out staying on one of the boats doing about 11 dives, couple being night Dives.

Great company to dive with and you will have lot's of fun. Never stop for the 5 days you're with them!

When i finally get back over I'm going to do my next cert!
 
johns-andy said:
I did it through Prodive Cairns and got my open water cert.
It was 2 day's class room work and pool diving then 3 days out staying on one of the boats doing about 11 dives, couple being night Dives.

Great company to dive with and you will have lot's of fun. Never stop for the 5 days you're with them!

When i finally get back over I'm going to do my next cert!
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Blimey it's a small world! That's exactly where I did my open water back in 2003 :) Really enjoyed the liveaboard too and have some great memories of the time I spent with them.

OP should be a little clearer on whereabouts he's going to be based as the Barrier Reef is quite large!!
 
I did my open water there with Prodive too, back in 2008, and they were brilliant. I recommended them to my cousin who has since gone out with them and she loved it too.
 
cheets64 said:
How about leave it alone instead of destroying it, its not like it is some sort of Florida theme park.
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How about you get a clue! Any good dive school (of which prodive cairns is one btw) tell you not to touch anything when diving. Some cheesey line like "take only pictures and leave only bubbles"

Diving is a fantastic activity and it tends to be the people who have done a course that have more respect for the seas & oceans than those who haven't.
 
Subscribed to thread, I'll be looking to do this in roughly 4.5 months time, purely as a punter though.

Worth booking this far in advance?
 
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I've also done it with ProDive out of Cairns. Great classroom setup and really nice boat for the liveaboard part.
 
cheets64 said:
How about leave it alone instead of destroying it, its not like it is some sort of Florida theme park.
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At what point was destroying it mentioned? There's a very slight minority of divers who damage the wildlife when they dive, this does not mean that everyone who seeks to dive an area is going to destroy it!
 
cheets64 said:
How about leave it alone instead of destroying it, its not like it is some sort of Florida theme park.
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He says as he types on his plastic keyboard......made in a chinese sweatshop.....that was built on fertile land.....that once had a thousand different types of organism on it.

Please,
if you are going to go all tree-huggy on us - the least you could do is turn the PC off to reduce your CO2 output...... think of all the bees you are killing ;)

On a serious note - nearly all the Dive centres are extremely professional.... they will tell you the dangers - tell you not to take anything (apart from pictures) and give you the usual drill about having seawater friendly suntan lotions etc. Luckily most people that dive there understand the ecology and aren't your usual muppets that are going to go around destroying the beauty that is on show.
 
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I have. Went on Sprite of freedom.

I'd highly recommend them. Very professional, friendly, good food and nice boat.

All their hire equipment gets repaced once a year.

If you do the 3 day cod hole trip you get a flight over the reef in a light aircraft, as well as a short trip to Lizard Island as well.
 
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I snorkled it last summer, we took a trip out of Port Douglas with a company called Wave Length who I would hesitate to recomend. The experience snorkelling was amazing so I can only imagine how good diving would be, we were incredibly lucky and saw two turtles and a family of clown fish and a whale from the boat on the way out among all the other fish and marine life.

As an aside for anyone thinking of going snorkling rather than diving make sure you get on a dedicated snorkling boat or you will simply spend all day waiting for divers to get in and out!

Oh and for the moaning eco warriors the biggest threats to the barrier reef are the warming of the oceans and pollution from farming running out to sea in the big rivers, the impact of modern divers is minimal provided they treat the environment with respect taking nothing and not using the wrong sort of sun cream.
 
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I dived the red sea when i went to naama bay in egypt. I got my open water license did two days in the shallow sea and then third day was on a boat and we went to see two reefs. Amazing experience, being 18 meter under water surrounded by fish is intense.
 
Another Prodive Cairns customer here, decent set up, did my open water 5 years ago - shame I haven't dived since though :(
 
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