Seychelles....

mixedgas

Hello!
Just wondering if anyone has been diving in the Seychelles with a rebreather?
If so, could you tell me who to contact. Also, interested in a liveaborad in the Maldives....Any information would be great!!!!
Cheers!

phbillard

Hi

I don't know about Seychelles, but for Maldives, you have OK Maldives (OK Maldives) with Christian Allanic who is a famous Inspiration diver.
They provide Sofnolime, and have an O2 booster on board.
Hope it helps

Philippe

Hanssing

I've just been to the Seychelles,

And The islelands Mahé, Praslin and 'La Digue' are all very shallow.
Typical singletank S80 stuff air for an hour.
I think my deepest logged dive was 25'ish msw.

We had nice service, though nothing special from the following operators:

Praslin: Whitetip Dives we good (No nitrox, Alu 80, have din-adaptors, and they pay for your transport)

La Digue: Didn't bother, no operators on the isleland so it was from Praslin anyway just more expensive (Same sites)

Mahé (We stayed on Cerf-isleland).
We dived talked to a freench guy on Cerf (The Marine Park just outside Victoria) but he runs a very small operation, doesn't even have DIN-adaptors and only dives close sites, with a slow boat. The sites sometimes have bad-viz from Victoria.

Instead we dived with 'Anglefish Dives' they have steel-tanks and a better boat.
They are based in Victoria (I think - never saw their quaters).

Later on Mahé we dived from the other side of the isle using 'Seychelles Underwater Center' - They work form Coral Strand Hotel.
They've apparently been there since the mid eighties and run a very good operations (Glynis the owner is very friendly and picked us up in Victoria). Though they bring more people they have a good boat that reaches the far sites better. They actually have nitrox but nearly nowhere to use it.....
Typical divetime is no-stop diving for app. 60mins.

For Rebreather i wouldn't bother, except for photo's, and then you would have to charter a boat for you (and possible buddies) to get away from OC-guys.

Nowhere did I really see any tec-gear....
If you wanna go below 30msw at the inner island you have to bring a showel.
Just bring WarmWater OC-gear.



Nicolai

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mixedgas

Thank you for the information.....very helpful!!!!
Cheers! Jeff

Dive!Dive!

I agree with Nicolai
We stayed at the Coral Strand in 2003. Lovely beach, although inshore viz not great when we were there.
Glynis at 'Seychelles Underwater Center' also gets my vote - very friendly and well organised.
Leave your reabreather at home, you can do everything you need to do here on a single 80.
Steve