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Located
on Christmas Island, Christmas Island Diver's Association
is Kiribati's premier eco-tour operator. Staffed by certified
PADI scuba professionals, marine biologists, and seasoned
fishing guides, visitors can enjoy full or half day fishing,
scuba diving, and bird watching activities with the most knowledgeable,
safe, and friendly tour operator Kiribati has to offer. In
addition to quality service, affordable daily rates and weekly
package prices make Christmas Island Diver's Association the
perfect choice for both the high-end traveler or back-packer
to choose. As the largest and most well known of Kiribati's
Line Islands, Christmas Island is a place where you can  find
everything desired in a real life adventure.
Diving
Christmas Island's diving is best described as an underwater
diamond where the sea life is a reminder of the reefs our
great grandfathers once told stories about...
The reef formations around the island vary from cut and groove
patterns, to large pinnacles that rise up from deep water
to just feet from the surface, and dramatic wall drop-offs.
The reefs on the South side of the Island around the Korean
Wreck area promise divers the same experience they would get
on Palau's famous Blue Corner, with large pelagics such as
whale sharks, black-tipped reef sharks, rainbow runner, and
barracuda venturing up over the drop-off to hunt smaller reef
fish. Poland Village's Christmas Corner is our premier dive
site with hundreds of schooling big  eye
trevally, barracuda, and several napoleon wrasses swimming
within feet of divers. Even from the moment you do your back-roll
off the boat you are surrounded by playful bottlenose dolphins
who stay with you until you descend to the bottom of the ledge.
Often, our guests will come back year after year just to dive
Christmas Corner.
Near London Village, the diving is a little more relaxed due
to its protection from the normal easterly trade-winds that
often chop-up the water around Christmas Corner and Korean
Wreck, but the action is no less exciting. Grapple Rocks,
a pinnacle located in front of Cook Island, is a mound of
broken-up coral boulders that shoots up from 70 feet of sand
and tops off at 35 feet from the surface. Here divers can
see large schools of fusiliers, an assortment of large groupers,
humphead parrotfish, and an assortment of small colorful fish.
Several large manta rays (commonly seen from the surface around
Cook Island), make this pinnacle their home and treat divers
to a show of loops and turns as they glide along the reef
feeding on plankton. Just a little north, up the coastline
from London Village, is another dive site known as Eel Gardens.
Although it is a mere 45ft deep, this site is home to an array
of moray eels and is also known as the best location on the
planet to find the rare dragon moray eel. This small 2-3ft.
animal is actually quite passive and will allow divers to
 come
within inches of it with their camera lenses. While a diver
in a place like Hawaii may see a dragon moray once in a lifetime,
these extremely colorful and highly sought after animals can
be found with ease several times during a dive on this site.
Number of Dive Boats: 2
Maximum Number of Divers: 16
Number of Tanks per Day: 3
Gear Provided: tanks and weights
Rental Gear Available: yes
Type of Diving: Drift, shallow reef, walls, night, deep, wreck,
manta ray
Total Dive Sites: 18
Minimum time to divesites/mins: 10
Maximum time to dive site/mins: 120
Training Agency: PADI
Courses Offered: discover scuba diving, open water license,
advanced open water, rescue diver, divemaster
 Activities
scuba diving, sportfishing, snorkelling, bird watching, land
touring
Restaurants
Private chef provided for all guests
Accommodations
We have
several options for accomodations. The best overall option
that we offer to our guests is the Ikari House located in
the heart of London Village and just minutes from our boat
launch area.  The
Ikari House is situated on a private beach front and has 3
fully air-conditioned rooms capable of accomodating up to
6 guests. Each room is also fully furnished, has telephone
service, and a mini-refrigerator is included in each room
too. Your very own private chef will prepare sumptuous meals
from the kitchen and outside BBQ grill to include steak, lobster,
fresh island fish, chicken, vegetables, desserts, and daily
appetizers that are served to you fresh by the staff as you
relax on the beach enjoying your favorite beverage! Other
accomodation options are offered with occupancy up to 70 guests
(for information on larger accomodations please send an email
to: inquiry@cidiving.com)
Amenities
» Number of Rooms: 3
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Check-in Time: 3pm
» Check-out Time: 5am
» On the Beach: yes
» Scuba Diving Available: Yes
» Watersports Available: Yes
» Air-Conditioned: yes
» Kitchen: Yes
» Phone in Room: Yes
» Restaurant: Yes
» Baby Sitting: Yes
» Conference Facilities: Yes
» Maid Services: Yes
Type Payments Accepted: credit card (via Paypal) and cash,
credit cards (via Paypal) and cash
Christmas
Island Diver's Association
Dive and Sport Resort
London, Christmas Island
Republic of Kiribati
U.S. Booking office:
3153 Harding Avenue
Honolulu, Hawaii 96816
Main number: (808) 351-4374
Secondary: (808) 735-5001
Email: Robert@cidiving.com
Web: www.christmasislanddiversassociation.com
Christmas
Island Divers Association Information Request
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