This landscape study aims to assess the current state of the recreational diving industry in French Polynesia, particularly from a local community perspective. The main focus of study will be to investigate local perceptions of industry. Particularly:
To achieve the aims outlined, this study will also need to investigate the wider context of the French Polynesian recreational dive industry – information about which seems to be lacking in current literature. Hence, in the following protocol I highlight the procedure I followed to gather some preliminary information about the demographics of recreational scuba dive clubs in French Polynesia