To experience the best of diving in the Maldives, you need to move with the seasons and the currents. Diving from Ocean Dancer allows this and gives you the optimum  chance of seeing thrilling animals such as sharks, whale sharks and manta rays. To experience the best of your diving holiday aboard Ocean Dancer, you need to ‘go with the flow’ and not expect a typical live-aboard experience, Dancer or otherwise! Go into this trip with this attitude and you’ll come away with the experience of a lifetime.
Your cruise will take you through the atolls to the very best of the dive sites and you can enjoy three dives a day as well as excursions to fishing islands and a range of resort islands on the way. Don’t be concerned about the number of daily dives…what you might lose in quantity you will gain in quality and you will take home memories of the very special ‘Magic of the Maldives’. With so many dive sites to choose from, it is important to have a crew who knows where to find the best available ones on any given day at any given time. The Ocean Dancer crew delivers an itinerary designed to do just that.
Ocean Dancer offers accommodations for 16 guests in air-conditioned cabins with en-suite bathrooms and is more spacious than most live-aboard vessels. Diving takes place from Ocean Dancer’s Dhoni, a spacious, 52’, self contained tender to maximize comfort and safety. Ocean Dancer combines the high standard of Dancer Fleet service with its unique presentation of the ‘Magic of the Maldives’.
Boat Specifications:
Port of Registry/Flag: Maldives
Built: Kaffu Atoll , Maldives 2004/2005
Type: Motor yacht
Length: 110 feet
Beam: 30 feet
Draft: 7.7 feet
Number of Passengers: 14/16
Accommodation: 8 Double Occupancy Staterooms
Number of Crew: 10
Length of Charters: 7 nights
Dives Per Day: 3 and 2 night dives weekly.
Number of Tenders: 3 ( Dive boat 52 feet, 2 dhingy 18 feet , 85 HP engine and 11ft 15 HP
Total Displacement: 200 tons
Propulsion: CUMINS N 14 480 HP
Fuel capacity: 7000
Fresh Water Capacity: 8 000 l
Desalinator Production: 10 000 liters per day
Cruising Speed: 10 .12 knots
Range: 1000 miles
Navigation Aids: VHF, SSB, Furuno 36 mile radar, GPS x 2 , Eco sondeur, Cmap.
Oxygen On Board: Yes
Laundry: No
Compressor: 3 x Mariner BAUER
Voltage: 2 x ONAN 35 KVA gensets, 220v, 50 cycle
Air-conditioning: To all interior areas
Photographic Video Services: Yes (No E6 processing )
Diving Instruction: Yes
Nitrox: Yes
Dive Gear Rental: Yes
CD /DVD Player: Yes
Boutique: Yes
Equipment Rinse: Yes
Special Dietary Requests: Yes
Recompression Chamber: Bandos resort Male
Communications: Satellite Phone, VHF Radio , Internet , Mobile phone . Phones in rooms.
Photographs courtesy of Peter Hughes
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