OCEAN HUNTER III, PALAU: General Info
Ocean Hunter III arrived in Palau, safe & sound from the Philippines' shipyards a couple years ago. She offers this equipment on board: Water maker x 2, Dive Compressor x 2, Dryer, TV, DVD, Satellite Phone, Espresso Machine & exquisitely personal service. Here are the specs for Ocean Hunter III:
* Length: 75 feet (25m)
* Beam: 19 feet (6.5m)
* Draft: 6.5 feet (2m)
* Displacement: 120 tons
* 6 dbl cabins with toilet, shower & a sink.
* NITROX & rebreather support onboard
* Gourmet meals & superb service
* Spacious dive deck & gear room
Your Ocean Hunter I or Ocean Hunter IIII dive packages always include: all meals + unlimited diving + deluxe berths + a crew that literally becomes your oceanic valets for a week of unparalleled pampering, delicious cuisine & glorious Palau diving adventures in one of the world's Seven Scuba Wonders. Prices subject to possible change. Call our Palau vacation experts at 952-953-4124 to confirm prices & specials. The following text blocks & all photos are provided courtesy of our vacation partners, the warmly hospitable Bornovsky Family, owners of Ocean Hunter.
OCEAN HUNTER I or OCEAN HUNTER III are your best bets for catered
Palau scuba diving service because they offer:
1. 7 full days of diving.
2. 95% of diving is done from the main boat.
3. Unlimited diving or your money back!
4. Only 5 more divers in the water, so no cattle boats.
5. Dive reefs & walls beyond the reach of day-boats & big live-aboards.
6. Family run operation with the same crew for four years.
7. Tova & Navot, who run this delightful vessel, are warm & gracious hosts!
GOURMET MEALS on BOARD OCEAN HUNTER I and OCEAN HUNTER III --
The master chef Solomon has been on board for many years. And the exquisite gourmet menu was developed by Tova, who went out on the boat for the first six months in Palau, learning what our guests liked. As a dedicated diver who knows the importance of low-fat, fiber-rich meals, Tova has designed our menu with foods from around the world: Palauan, Italian, Mediterranean, French, Japanese (with fresh sashimi, sushi, & deliciously cooked fresh seafood) & much more.
6:00 AM on: Gourmet coffee & tea are served with fresh sweet rolls & cakes.
8:00 AM: After the first dive of the day, we serve a full breakfast.
12:30 PM: After the third dive of the day, it's time for a buffet lunch.
In the afternoon: Solomon serves one of his daily fresh fruit smoothies (papaya, pineapple, soursop, & many other local exotic fruits).
7:30 PM: White tablecloth & chinaware dinner will be served after the night dive, with a different gourmet soup every night to warm you up.
Abundant snacks: Will be served in between meals.
Fresh vegetables & fruits are in abundance & will be served with every meal. The chef will happily cater to vegetarian needs or any other special dietary request.
7 REASONS WHY OCEAN HUNTERS RULE the SCUBA DIVING WORLD of PALAU !
1. Unlimited Diving -- Many boats advertise this, but only a few will truly let you dive as much as you want. OCEAN HUNTER will guarantee that as long as you stay within safe PADI tables, you can dive as much as your heart desires.
2. True Freedom Underwater -- Our divemasters & captain will assist you, & one of us will accompany every dive, but if you want to explore on your own, we will not hassle you. (And that's a promise!)
3. No Grinding Chaseboat Rides -- Because of its size & shallow draft, the OCEAN HUNTER will take you above the dive site & you will jump off the main boat from our comfortable dive platform. When the dive is over, you'll climb aboard & take a warm, freshwater shower right on the dive deck. No 30 minute rides on fancy chaseboats like the bigger liveaboards in Palau!
4. Night Dives Every Night that Currents are Safe -- We offer great night diving on nearly every night. Our size allows us to spend the night right on Palau's most spectacular dive sites.
5. Photography-Friendly Diving Yacht -- Most of our divers are keen photographers. Knowing the importance & value of your camera gear, we have put an extra effort into designing a big working area & more than 60 electrical outlets (110 volt & 220 volt) throughout the boat. The OCEAN HUNTER is connected with Palau's leading photoshop, where you can rent or buy anything you need. Computers are available for digital photo editing.
6. Continuous service -- The OCEAN HUNTER staff is a close-knit family. Unlike the bigger liveaboards who change crews & captains every season, our family-run business gives you the same famous service & knowledge. We gather information year after year & are here waiting to share it with you!
7. Flexibility of Service -- When weather permits, we sail down to the most southern islands of the Palau chain, Peleliu & Anguar, & spend the night. Both islands have deserted, shallow harbors which were the sites of major WW2 battles. On these expeditions, we offer a land tour with a local history guide.
ADDITIONAL TIPS for SMOOTH TRAVEL PLANNING for your PALAU SCUBA DIVING ADVENTURE on the OCEAN HUNTER I or OCEAN HUNTER III !
Hotel Reservations: U.S. DIVE TRAVEL's stateside office gladly will help with booking your hotel nights on Koror Island, if you want to stay extra nights. Please ask us about the availability & prices of accommodations in Palau. There's a LOT more to a Palau diving or Palau snorkeling adventure than the underwater immersion part. The cultural delights of Micronesia are not to be missed.
Departure Tax: $35 per person, to be paid at the airport.
Palau Scuba Diving Permits: The state of Koror requires a dive permit for each diver. Cost: $15 per trip.
Palau Land Tours: When weather permits we spend the night in Peleliu or Anguar. A local guided land tour to see the islands & the WW2 remains can be arranged. Cost: $15 per person.
Tips to Vessel Staff on OCEAN HUNTER: Tipping is a personal matter, but for guests who have requested guidance on the subject: the OCEAN HUNTER is a USA standard liveaboard, with crew's salaries based on tipping (upon your satisfaction). The average tips generally run 10-12% of the trip cost.
Palau is the Crown Jewel of Micronesia & the equatorial Pacific: its waters clear up to 200' on a good day, brimming with wildly colorful fish & corals, it's turquoise-greenish-celeste lagoons glowing with a rich color found nowhere else on Earth, exactly the same as this. Because so many wealthy Japanese tourists have flocked to the main island city of Koror in recent years, the best dive sites are well removed from this island, out along the remote reefs & in the famous Rock Islands. You need a good live-aboard to get there, pure & simple. The rockin' & rollin' six-packs, cramped with more than half a dozen divers & their cameras, open under the blazing equatorial sun, just won't do. Real Palau diving, the kind of Palau diving you pay good air ticket money to see, will always be far better from a good live-aboard, dive professionals agree.
To avoid bumpy 2-hour speedboat rides each way to the choicest scuba diving sites -- that's what many of Palau's resorts offer -- there's no better way than aboard this premier diving yacht. You have only 6 divers per trip on board, plus fantastic food & service, & diving that will leave you saturated with beauty. Imagine these primo sites: Blue Point, Ngemelis Pass, the Quadruple Blue Hole. But Palau diving has even more to offer. Much more. At Blue Point you'll find schools of skinny gleaming barracuda, so vast that when you swim through the school it forms a seething quicksilver tunnel around you & wraps you up in living glitter. Now THAT's Palau diving. As you can see, Palau live-aboards really are the way to go in Palau of Micronesia.
Palau diving also will offer you amazing wall dives, some teeming with clouds of fat pelagics that brush by you as unconcerned as of you were a speck of plankton. There are WWIII wrecks hunkering in clear water, huge gliding manta rays, schools of sharks (no worries; they're more afraid of you than you of them!) & some outstanding soft corals that will light up your eye, & your scuba diving memories for years.
You'll also get a chance to visit a remote lake teeming with thousands of harmless jellyfish that swarm around you like clouds of living marshmallows, basketball-sized aliens bent on relentless gentle domination -- like the Tribbles on Captain Kirk's Enterprise! This is Jellyfish Lake; yes folks it's for real. There are shallow lagoons girdling the world-famous Rock Islands, just laden with fish & corals of every hue imaginable.
* Length: 75 feet (25m)
* Beam: 19 feet (6.5m)
* Draft: 6.5 feet (2m)
* Displacement: 120 tons
* 6 dbl cabins with toilet, shower & a sink.
* NITROX & rebreather support onboard
* Gourmet meals & superb service
* Spacious dive deck & gear room
Your Ocean Hunter I or Ocean Hunter IIII dive packages always include: all meals + unlimited diving + deluxe berths + a crew that literally becomes your oceanic valets for a week of unparalleled pampering, delicious cuisine & glorious Palau diving adventures in one of the world's Seven Scuba Wonders. Prices subject to possible change. Call our Palau vacation experts at 952-953-4124 to confirm prices & specials. The following text blocks & all photos are provided courtesy of our vacation partners, the warmly hospitable Bornovsky Family, owners of Ocean Hunter.
OCEAN HUNTER I or OCEAN HUNTER III are your best bets for catered
Palau scuba diving service because they offer:
1. 7 full days of diving.
2. 95% of diving is done from the main boat.
3. Unlimited diving or your money back!
4. Only 5 more divers in the water, so no cattle boats.
5. Dive reefs & walls beyond the reach of day-boats & big live-aboards.
6. Family run operation with the same crew for four years.
7. Tova & Navot, who run this delightful vessel, are warm & gracious hosts!
GOURMET MEALS on BOARD OCEAN HUNTER I and OCEAN HUNTER III --
The master chef Solomon has been on board for many years. And the exquisite gourmet menu was developed by Tova, who went out on the boat for the first six months in Palau, learning what our guests liked. As a dedicated diver who knows the importance of low-fat, fiber-rich meals, Tova has designed our menu with foods from around the world: Palauan, Italian, Mediterranean, French, Japanese (with fresh sashimi, sushi, & deliciously cooked fresh seafood) & much more.
6:00 AM on: Gourmet coffee & tea are served with fresh sweet rolls & cakes.
8:00 AM: After the first dive of the day, we serve a full breakfast.
12:30 PM: After the third dive of the day, it's time for a buffet lunch.
In the afternoon: Solomon serves one of his daily fresh fruit smoothies (papaya, pineapple, soursop, & many other local exotic fruits).
7:30 PM: White tablecloth & chinaware dinner will be served after the night dive, with a different gourmet soup every night to warm you up.
Abundant snacks: Will be served in between meals.
Fresh vegetables & fruits are in abundance & will be served with every meal. The chef will happily cater to vegetarian needs or any other special dietary request.
7 REASONS WHY OCEAN HUNTERS RULE the SCUBA DIVING WORLD of PALAU !
1. Unlimited Diving -- Many boats advertise this, but only a few will truly let you dive as much as you want. OCEAN HUNTER will guarantee that as long as you stay within safe PADI tables, you can dive as much as your heart desires.
2. True Freedom Underwater -- Our divemasters & captain will assist you, & one of us will accompany every dive, but if you want to explore on your own, we will not hassle you. (And that's a promise!)
3. No Grinding Chaseboat Rides -- Because of its size & shallow draft, the OCEAN HUNTER will take you above the dive site & you will jump off the main boat from our comfortable dive platform. When the dive is over, you'll climb aboard & take a warm, freshwater shower right on the dive deck. No 30 minute rides on fancy chaseboats like the bigger liveaboards in Palau!
4. Night Dives Every Night that Currents are Safe -- We offer great night diving on nearly every night. Our size allows us to spend the night right on Palau's most spectacular dive sites.
5. Photography-Friendly Diving Yacht -- Most of our divers are keen photographers. Knowing the importance & value of your camera gear, we have put an extra effort into designing a big working area & more than 60 electrical outlets (110 volt & 220 volt) throughout the boat. The OCEAN HUNTER is connected with Palau's leading photoshop, where you can rent or buy anything you need. Computers are available for digital photo editing.
6. Continuous service -- The OCEAN HUNTER staff is a close-knit family. Unlike the bigger liveaboards who change crews & captains every season, our family-run business gives you the same famous service & knowledge. We gather information year after year & are here waiting to share it with you!
7. Flexibility of Service -- When weather permits, we sail down to the most southern islands of the Palau chain, Peleliu & Anguar, & spend the night. Both islands have deserted, shallow harbors which were the sites of major WW2 battles. On these expeditions, we offer a land tour with a local history guide.
ADDITIONAL TIPS for SMOOTH TRAVEL PLANNING for your PALAU SCUBA DIVING ADVENTURE on the OCEAN HUNTER I or OCEAN HUNTER III !
Hotel Reservations: U.S. DIVE TRAVEL's stateside office gladly will help with booking your hotel nights on Koror Island, if you want to stay extra nights. Please ask us about the availability & prices of accommodations in Palau. There's a LOT more to a Palau diving or Palau snorkeling adventure than the underwater immersion part. The cultural delights of Micronesia are not to be missed.
Departure Tax: $35 per person, to be paid at the airport.
Palau Scuba Diving Permits: The state of Koror requires a dive permit for each diver. Cost: $15 per trip.
Palau Land Tours: When weather permits we spend the night in Peleliu or Anguar. A local guided land tour to see the islands & the WW2 remains can be arranged. Cost: $15 per person.
Tips to Vessel Staff on OCEAN HUNTER: Tipping is a personal matter, but for guests who have requested guidance on the subject: the OCEAN HUNTER is a USA standard liveaboard, with crew's salaries based on tipping (upon your satisfaction). The average tips generally run 10-12% of the trip cost.
Palau is the Crown Jewel of Micronesia & the equatorial Pacific: its waters clear up to 200' on a good day, brimming with wildly colorful fish & corals, it's turquoise-greenish-celeste lagoons glowing with a rich color found nowhere else on Earth, exactly the same as this. Because so many wealthy Japanese tourists have flocked to the main island city of Koror in recent years, the best dive sites are well removed from this island, out along the remote reefs & in the famous Rock Islands. You need a good live-aboard to get there, pure & simple. The rockin' & rollin' six-packs, cramped with more than half a dozen divers & their cameras, open under the blazing equatorial sun, just won't do. Real Palau diving, the kind of Palau diving you pay good air ticket money to see, will always be far better from a good live-aboard, dive professionals agree.
To avoid bumpy 2-hour speedboat rides each way to the choicest scuba diving sites -- that's what many of Palau's resorts offer -- there's no better way than aboard this premier diving yacht. You have only 6 divers per trip on board, plus fantastic food & service, & diving that will leave you saturated with beauty. Imagine these primo sites: Blue Point, Ngemelis Pass, the Quadruple Blue Hole. But Palau diving has even more to offer. Much more. At Blue Point you'll find schools of skinny gleaming barracuda, so vast that when you swim through the school it forms a seething quicksilver tunnel around you & wraps you up in living glitter. Now THAT's Palau diving. As you can see, Palau live-aboards really are the way to go in Palau of Micronesia.
Palau diving also will offer you amazing wall dives, some teeming with clouds of fat pelagics that brush by you as unconcerned as of you were a speck of plankton. There are WWIII wrecks hunkering in clear water, huge gliding manta rays, schools of sharks (no worries; they're more afraid of you than you of them!) & some outstanding soft corals that will light up your eye, & your scuba diving memories for years.
You'll also get a chance to visit a remote lake teeming with thousands of harmless jellyfish that swarm around you like clouds of living marshmallows, basketball-sized aliens bent on relentless gentle domination -- like the Tribbles on Captain Kirk's Enterprise! This is Jellyfish Lake; yes folks it's for real. There are shallow lagoons girdling the world-famous Rock Islands, just laden with fish & corals of every hue imaginable.
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