Whale Watching Samoa

Provider for whale swimming: The Whale Swim Safari offers only a few visitors on the boat for an unforgettable experience. We offer 6 day whale watching tours including whale watching, snorkeling, diving, Tongan festivals etc. From Nuku'alofa we sail with our ship "Spirit of Adventure" around the archipelago Tongatapu.

Buckle whale swimming tour & underwater photography

It was the best and most extraordinary life event. When you are dreaming of meeting cetaceans, the Kingdom of Tonga should be your main goal. There we stayed almost four week with astonishing humans and moguls. Your skill and expertise have given us astonishing shots and photos. In 2009 I travelled to Tonga for the first time to research my Master's degree.

When the small airplane left the continent of Tongatapu, we watched from the airplane's window, admired sea corals and wonderful water and were looking forward to a well-deserved rest, relax on tropic isles, snorkel in sea corals and swim with moguls! WOW.... my first whaling adventure and it was amazing.

To be in the sea with these lovely beings is a unique journey, except that I want to go back - and I will!

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An American Samoan government gamelife expert says there is room for the area to start a whale watching company, but more science is needed first. The Whale Watching is expanding as a touristic destination in places like Fiji, Tonga and Niue and the Department of Marine and Wild-life Resources' Alden Tagarino, says that it is also promising in American Samoa.

A whale ministry signed by Samoa

It is Samoa that signs the Pacific Island Year of the Forest Declare. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Natural Resources and Environment (M.N.R.E.), Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, was one of the 11 country guides who subscribed to the statement during the whales conference in Tonga. It called for increased whale protection throughout the Pacific area.

The Samoa region was supported by Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Tokelau, Tonga and Tuvalu. and the full text of the statement is as follows: The signatory ministers and civil servants of the Pacific Islands and Territories met at a Whale in Transition meeting in Nuku'alofa, Kingdom of Tonga, from 4 to 6 April 2017 to commemorate the Year of the Whale in the Pacific Islands and Territories:

RECOGNISING the profound intercultural relations, as well as historical whale traditions, between cetaceans and the people of the Pacifica; NOTING that many large whale colonies that hibernate in the nesting areas of the Pacifica are the result of 19th and 20th century fishing fleet industrialization; RECOGNISING that some communities of these endangered fish have recovered thanks to the worldwide ban on the practice of the International Commission on the Conservation of Endangered Wild Fauna; FREE that many Caribbean archipelagos and regions have introduced laws, whale reserves and other obligations that enhance the conservation of the region's whale population;

RECOGNISING that for many islands and islands in the Pacific, whale watching is an important natural asset and that well-run whale watching activity can bring lasting commercial advantages; RECOGNISING that the recovery of whale communities in the islands and regions of the Pacific is now threatened by a number of new hazards such as climatic changes, sea bedding, by-catch in fisheries, environmental disturbance and soundness;;

RECOGNISES the topic of the Year of Cetaceans, that cetaceans are live watchmen who mirror and help the sanity of our seas; RECOGNISES the generosity of the Government of Tonga and the outstanding precautions taken to receive the cetaceans in a meeting in the transformation of the world;; RECOGNISING the contribution of RFMOs, IGOs, NGOs, the non-governmental community, the public and others to promoting the regeneration of whale communities; RECOGNISING that missing and relinquished gears are one of the most damaging types of remnants for cetaceans and that fast-track measures are needed to help prevention and significant reduction of maritime contamination;

the COMMEND SPREP undertaking to establish an action plan for whales and dolphins to establish a protective action plan for the Pacific Island 2018-2023; INVITE the Whales in Transiting the Oceans to work with SPREP to prepare a blueprint for an action plan for whales and dolphins to be reviewed and endorsed at the annual meeting of SPREP in September 2017;

INVITE to work with the Islands and regions of the Pacifica and others to assess the main whale Conservation Capacities needs to be taken into account in the 2018-2023 Whale and Dolphin Action Plan; COMMITS our Government to work with other Pacifica Island and Territory to ensure a safe and sustainable whale population in the Pacifica Island area;;

WELCOMES the commitment and input of all parties involved, as well as NGOs, NGOs, universities, the business community, civic organizations and municipalities; WELCOME new twinning arrangements, involving multi-lateral organizations, to put into effect the volunteer engagements of the Islands and regions to achieve the objectives of this Declaration.