Diving Polynesia: dive Tahiti, dive Moorea, dive Bora Bora, dive Rangiroa, dive Fakarava

In Polynesia and in all the islands around ,you can dive all year long. The visibility often reaches 150 feet with, sometimes, 250 feet. The water temperature is 26 °C (79 °F) in July-August and reaches 31°C (90 °F) during summer.

We have 3 departures a day:
8:30am Outside of the lagon (ocean dive),
10:30am Outside of Reef,
2:30pm Outside or inside of Reef.

Beginners can sign up at 10:30 am and 02:30 pm ( booking is needed)
Usually, divers do 2 dives a day: two tanks in morning or one tank in morning and one in afternoon. This third dive is possible in the afternoon in the lagoon in shallow water.

The lagoon dives are usually shallow. They are very easy and safe, even for young divers or beginners. Usually, we manage to stay with the boat in 3 feet water so it's easy to put the gear on, standing up on the sandy bottom, and then going down slowly over corral. Those sites are still very interesting.
The ocean dives are very different. We have different spots including one for the famous sharks feedings done by the TOPDIVE-Bathys Moorea. These spots are world famous (TIKI point, Rose Garden). We have here a lot of tropical fishes, moray eels, napoleons fishes, 5 kinds of sharks (up to 10 feet long during feedings), 2 kinds of rays, sea turtles, and many other things...
We also do drift dives, deep dives...
Dive time depend, as you know, of the level of the group but we’re generally based on 40 minutes bottom time.
French Polynesia is famous for its beautiful very fishy and easy dives and for its clear & warm water: many of underwater photographers come here for their job.

Who says easy says shallow.
The average is 10-15 meters (30 to 45 feet) for lagoon dives, 20-25 meters (60 to 75 feet maximum) for ocean dives.
The deeper dives we do is 40 meters (120 feet) in ocean.
These depths are not maximum depth but effectively depth we reach, except special case. The wealth of shallow water does not incite us to go deeper, safety choose longer than deeper.

French Polynesia is famous for its easy & safe dives.

It is possible to begin your courses in Tahiti, to continue in Moorea and finish in Bora Bora.
Thanks to three TOPDIVE-Bathys centers(PADI 5*), it is possible for you to have a check followed by your formation & a continuity in the given service!
Then do not hesitate one moment, begin the adventure, and enter in the divers' big family!

It depends on you and on the reason of your trip. If you come mostly for diving, you can do the complete certification with an intensive course in 3 days.

No, we don't provide equipment for diver who are not diving with us.
Even if diving sites are close by boat, it seems useless to dive from the beach.
During every dive, divers are accompanied by an instructor for 5 persons maximum. Instructors are guides that will help you to discover the most interesting things you will probably not see by your own. They are also here for your safety, as they are very experienced divers and know the different local conditions (weather, currents, locations, fauna, sharks, ...).
For lessons and beginners, the limit is 2 students for 1 instructor so they can have very personalized courses.

YES and NO.
YES: the flight to Tahiti by Air Moora stays under 1.000 feet (300 meters) so no surface interval is needed but nevertheless advised.
NO: FOR ALL OTHER FLIGHTS, even to other islands of Tahiti, you must respect the surface interval .You will have to wait from 6 to 24 hours, according to the dives made the previous days. Ask for it before to one of the instructors.

YES and NO: it depends on you and where do you come from.
YES: there is no physical problem to dive just after a flight. It's even the contrary as you have less nitrogen dissolved in the body than usually.
NO: if you are tired or stressed by the trip. If you come from far away, it's safe to wait one day before diving. Just come and see the dive shop and you will be able to book for the next day. Take a rest, enjoy your hotel, the beach and the island and you will feel perfect for a dive on the next day.

Five instructors BESS1, PADI, CMAS are working in each dive centre.

Sharks can be dangerous but not in Moorea where. They are used to meet divers. In French Polynesia, the sharks are not aggressive, even for species that are supposed to be aggressive in other parts of the world.
TOPDIVE-Bathys dive with sharks every day, all year long, sometimes very closely during the sharks feeding, we never had any accident with sharks during these feedings or during other dives.

At TOPDIVE-Bathys, we give a very special attention to security, especially having surface security by the boat’s captain. Nevertheless, we are ready with the best evacuation procedure: the boats have all medical gear on board.
Our boat are equiped with marine radio (VHF), mobile phone and oxygen kit for first aid. We never are more than 20 minutes from the dive center that we can call by radio. Tahiti hospital is less than 40 minutes by helicopter from the hotel. The ultra modern recompression chamber is there with a team specialized in hyperbaric medicine.