Yap Divers
Yap, Micronesia

 
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Dive Centre - Characteristics

Established:
1986
Awards:
Multiple Scuba Diving Magazine Readers Choice Awards for Top Dive Destination, Top Wall Diving, Top Marine Life, Top Snorkelling and Top Big Animal Encounters.
Season:
All year round.
Travel:
Flights to Yap originate from 3 gateway airports: Guam, Palau and Manila.
Local airport:
Yap International (YAP) (15 minute drive)
Languages:
English, German, French, Dutch, Japanese, Swedish, Yapese.
Dive guides:
10 local Yapese dive guides, all with at least 2000 local dives. 5 Instructors with at least 5,000 dives.
Boats:
8 fast, modern, twin engine dive boats ranging in size from 21 to 38 feet.
Education:
PADI, TDI, NRC, BSAC
Classrooms:
Fully equipped conference room with air conditioning, internet access, projector.
Equipment:
Complete dive equipment rental, free NITROX, full service photo/video centre.
Dive resorts:
Manta Ray Bay Hotel and Yap Divers PADI Gold Palm Resort.
E-Mail:
yapdivers@mantaray.com
Website:
www.mantaray.com
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Who we are

Manta Ray Bay Hotel & Yap Divers, Yap’s first PADI Gold Palm Resort - has more than 20 years experience of providing full service diving and luxury vacations in Yap, Micronesia. The resort was founded by Bill Acker and his wife, Patricia, and was the first dive resort facility on Yap, Micronesia back in 1986. Bill designed and built the resort specifically for divers.

From the start, a tradition of “treating guests like family” was born, and that tradition and style (and the participation of Bill, Patricia, their sons and daughters, and the more than 70 permanent staff members) persists to this day. Yap Divers has repeatedly been recognized as one of the top dive operators in the world.
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Where we are

We are located in the diving and tropical island paradise of Yap, Micronesia, one of the diving capitals of the world. Our dive centre and resort are located on the water in the small town and capital of Yap, Colonia, and is completely self-contained.

Our full service guest facility consists of 35 luxury rooms and, attached and fully integrated into the resort, a complete dive centre and fleet of eight dive boats (Yap Divers). Divers store their gear right in the dive centre, and leave directly from the dock just a few paces away from the hotel and dive centre.

 

What you can expect

While many come to Yap primarily for the world class diving, they leave having experienced much more. Yap is a delicate and interesting blend of traditional and modern pacific island culture, and has managed to preserve more of its unique cultural heritage than most islands in the world. Attractions such as seaside men’s houses, cultural village tours, stone money banks, native dance performances and kayaking through the mangroves, highlight any visit to this pristine paradise.

 

The Dive Sites

While Yap first became known around the world for it’s pioneering manta diving (and Yap Divers is still considered not only the first operator to provide these dives, but the best), diving visitors to Yap may enjoy more than 50 different dive sites in addition to our Manta Hot Spots.

Our outer reefs and drop-offs have some of the clearest water in the diving world, and visibility is often in excess of 150 ft/50 m. On the east coast you will find sloping reefs with pristine coral gardens and fish life and in the south Yap Caverns offer a unique swim-through.

For smaller creatures, Rainbow Reef is one the top dive sites in the world for watching mating Mandarin Fish and several macro dive sites offer everything from nudibranchs to ghost pipe fish. We also offer special shark dives, where you can get close to a number of different shark species. The dive sites average 15 – 30 meters in depth and are in general accessible to divers of any level.

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The Diving
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Generally, each day begins with a full briefing of the morning 2 tank dives by our staff of multinational dive guides (we speak more than 15 different languages). Then, divers will find their BC’s already on our fast diving tenders, and the morning dives begin. Our fleet of diving tenders are fast, have plenty of sun protection, carry water, tea and snacks, and because of Yap’s unique geography, usually only have to run for about 25 minutes to get to any of our dive sites. After the morning two tank dive, guests may opt for an additional 1 or 2 tank dive in the afternoon, and/or a dusk (Mandarin Fish) dive and/or night dive. If you want to dive like you’re on a live-aboard, you can do it in Yap! And enjoy land based amenities you’ll find on no liveaboard around the world. Our briefings are interactive, we encourage visitors to tell us what they’d like to do on any dive, and we’ll do our best to make your diving dreams come true.

 

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The Education  

Yap Divers offer a complete range of PADI courses. We strongly recommend divers who are not already NITROX certified to get certified with us. NITROX is offered free for certified divers and typical diving in Yap is very well suited for NITROX.

We also offer our own unique course, Manta Ray Awareness - a PADI speciality course to answer all your questions about mantas. Topics cover manta anatomy, feeding and mating behaviours, cleaning stations and seasonal movement. A speciality unique to Yap, the ultimate souvenir certification card signed by the manta man Bill Acker himself. Course is a one day single lecture followed by two dives with the mantas of Mi’l and Goofnuw Channels.


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