Join me on the Palau Aggressor

March 13 - 23,  2009

Palau offers you the world's most beautiful tropical paradise. Famous for its diving, Palau is rated as one of the world's best diving destinations by scuba aficionados. And why not...Palau has unspoiled reefs, caves, and walls with the most amazing array of marine life you can ever imagine.

Palau beckons to you with some of the world's most awesome natural wonders. Imagine the whitest beaches you will ever see, gardens of coral just beneath the clearest waters, lakes filled to the brim with "sting less" jellyfish. Forests, waterfalls and caves that have never been ravaged by man, and hundreds of islands of the purest beauty abound all along our pristine archipelago.

Discounted Cash Diver Price $5595.00*

• Round Trip air MSP to Palau
• Airport/hotel transfers in Honolulu
• 1 night at the Honolulu Airport Hotel in A Standard Room (double occupancy)
  
• 8 days 7 nights on the Palau Aggressor (double Occupancy)
  
• 5.5 days of diving with up to 5 dives per day (does NOT include $90.00 dive permit/cruising fee or Crew Gratuity)
  
• Meals while on board the Palau Aggressor except for  the last night
• 1 night at the Palau Pacific Resort in a Garden View Room
• Air Port Hotel Transfers in Palau
• Taxes/service charges on all the above except for dive/cruising fee and departure tax which we can not pay for you
  

Yap add-on to our Palau Aggressor Trip March 22 - 29, 2009

• Round Trip air from Palau to Yap to Guam
• Airport Hotel transfers in Yap
• 7 Nights at the Manta Ray Bay Hotel in a Ocean View Room (Double Occupancy)
• 5 Days of 2 tank boat dives with Yap Divers
• Taxes and service charges except for departure tax which we can't pay for you

Yap is world famous for it's large population of resident manta rays. On Yap a manta dive does not mean diving hoping for a manta encounter, it means diving to see the mantas.

There's much more to diving in Yap than just Manta Rays, however. Yap's outer reefs abound with species of tropical reef fishes, invertebrates and corals. When coupled with the abundance of larger species like mantas, sharks, and turtles, Yap is a paradise for the underwater photographer or videographer. More than 200 species of hard and soft corals form the reefs of Yap.

Yap Caverns, at the southern tip of the island offers a truly spectacular dive with an array of caverns, swim throughs and pinnacles populated by Lionfish and sleeping whitetip reef sharks. Large schools of Huge Bumphead Parrotfish are often seen here. A unique feature of Yap Caverns is that the dive not restricted to advanced divers, beginners have no trouble negotiating the swim throughs, and are able to share an experience of magical beauty otherwise reserved for more experienced divers.

The reefs on the East side of the island (windward side) feature gently sloping terraces with one of the most diverse selections of hard corals in Micronesia. The west side of the island (lee side) is composed of a series of vertical walls starting in 15 feet of water and plunging straight down hundreds of feet. The visibility on the reefs usually exceeds 100 feet and frequently is over 150 ft.

Many species of marine creatures that are rare in some parts of the world are plentiful in Yap. Dive sites such as Lionfish Wall offer a chance to experience the beauty of a pristine coral reef. One perpetual favorite of divers is the colorful clownfish. Five species can be seen in Yap. Some of the anemones they live in are over four feet across and host dozens of clowns.