Society Islands Gallery

The Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean with Tahiti as the most famous island has some great dive sites to offer. The water outside the lagoons is crystal clear. Shark-, Stingray- and smaller fish feeding has become a well known scuba activity for all the Society Islands.

In Tahiti we explored a couple of wrecks inside the lagoon, sunken planes and ships where a lot of fish have maid their residents.

The most special dive in Raiatea is the over 100 m three masted windjammer Norby, that sunk in 1900 and lies on 30 m inside the lagoon.

"Stingray City" in Moorea, the neighbour island of Tahiti is definitely a highlight. On a sandbank we snorkelled with a bunch of tame stingrays. Hopefully they never forget, that they are tame and don't make use of their sting.

Bora Bora is the place, where the reefs are still full of beautiful hard corals. Lemon sharks and black tip sharks are very common, where they get fed. Those hundreds of manta rays disappeared, because of the disturbance, while building a new hotel. We were lucky and saw on the outside reefs still a graceful manta. I will never forget the haunting singing of humpback whales during a whole dive. Humpback Whales stay from July through September to court, mate and calve in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean.