Caribbean Explorer II

Caribbean Explorer II offers exciting liveaboard diving in the Caribbean, featuring comfortable cabins, expert guides, and access to vibrant reefs, wrecks, and marine-rich dive sites.

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Cabins

Deck plan

Features & facilities

Boat features & facilities

  • Air-conditioned salon

  • TV, CD/DVD, video library

  • Lounge area

  • Recharging station

  • Boutique

  • Satellite telephone for incoming and outgoing calls worldwide

Dive features & facilities

  • Large dive deck

  • Storage bins

  • Camera table with low-pressure air hose

  • Recharging station

  • Air and nitrox filling stations

  • Tank racks

  • Separate fresh water rinse for both scuba and underwater camera equipment

  • Photo/video lab

Dive Overview

The variety of the topography and types of dive sites that are visited will amaze you! Saba is known for its submerged offshore pinnacles, St Kitts offers a great mix of wrecks, reefs, and dropoffs

[See: Saba & St. Kitts Dive Travel Guide]

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Accommodation Overview

The Caribbean Explorer II comfortably accommodates 18 passengers in 9 double staterooms, all of which have private bathroom facilities and most of which have queen-sized beds.

Food & Drinks

Evening meals usually consist of lots of fresh vegetables, rice, pasta, chicken, beef, turkey, pork, and fish. Breakfast is the usual fare of eggs, bacon, pancakes, French toast, muffins, danish and fresh fruits. Lunches vary from soup and sandwiches, burgers, pasta, assorted salads, and quiche. Homemade baked bread, cookies, and brownies are offered between dives. If you have any dietary restrictions or requests, please indicate so on your application form. Please note that specific brands of drinks, dressings, and foods are often unavailable in the islands and that it can be very difficult to find low-fat, gluten-free, or soy products, fresh fruit, fish, and other items common elsewhere.

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Practical information

Time Zone

UTC-4

Local Currency

USD (US Dollar) is widely accepted

Language

English

Electricity

220 V and 110 V

Payment methods

Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover or cash

Boat specifications

Registry: Vanuatu

Boatmaker: Camcraft, 1978

Recommissioned: 1999

Construction: All aluminum

L.O.A.: 115 ft

L.W.L.: 101 ft

Beam: 20 ft

Draft: 7.5 ft

Maximum Displacement: 99 tons

Maximum Speed: 12 knots

Maximum Range: 1,000 nautical miles

Engines: 2 GM 12 V 71 diesel main engines, 450 hp. each

Generators: 2 John Deere Diesels producing 110 V AC/220 V AC, 75 KW capacity.

Fuel Capacity: 2,500 gallons

Freshwater Supply: 2 reverse osmosis watermakers, 1,200 gallons per day, 1,500-gallon storage

Air Systems: 2 Bauer K-14 9.7 cfm compressors, electric, with cascade-type storage banks, located in engine room. Nitrox membrane, producing 32% nitrox, bank storage

Maximum guests: 18

Number of cabins: 9

Number of bathrooms: 10 (one on dive deck; private facilities in each cabins)

Number of crews: 8

Safety Equipment: Life rafts (4), life rings/strobes (4), life vests/strobes (25), emergency position locator, flares, oxygen, and first aid equipment

Tender: 16-foot rigid hull inflatable (25 hp. engine) used for passenger transport