Max arrived at Saint Marie in 1993! There was still no telephone, nor route! A track through the vegetation, few houses, a bank and a post office constituted the main part of the life to Saint Marie!
Saint Marie was a green pearl in the blue of the Indian Ocean.
The Club of dive is born during these years: it is the first boat, the wooden boat, paints in the hand and with which he begins to investigate the coral capital until then unknown.
He discovers remains, sandbanks in the wide, and especially coral, alive and colored reef !
But above all, they are the meetings with whales so close mégaptéres who attracts him.
They are to organize less Safari Whales in this time and Max is the very first. Curious and fascinated, he acquires fast some experience and his deep knowledge of these cetaceans allows him to understand better their custom and to share its knowledge.
Which intense pleasure to be able to observe them under the water with their young. One of his its best wishes on the plan beauty and feelings.
Saint Marie is known more and more, this small paradise gets organized. Hôteliéres structures amount, aggrandit Max his club and its fleet. It is him who creates all the spotlights of dive around the island.
Appearance of guides, information officers, scientists and especially... Internet!
Max organizes cruises, releasesof sports fishing.
Saint Marie became in the course of time an inescapable place so much on it
Saint Marie became in the course of time an inescapable place both on the tourist plan and on the cultural plan. The authenticity and the reception of his inhabitants, the beauty of its sites, whales and the coral capital are its main assets.
Max and his center of dive is always there, ready to welcome you and to show you all the secrets of this island.
With more than ten years of experience, Max is ready to make you discover more than twenty sites of dive, to make you meet during 3 months summer, the diverse groups of whales and to take you in cruise the rest of the year towards even more original destinations.
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