MV Island Explorer is a full service dive cruiser with comfortable cabins, spacious and fully airconditioned. Onboard are the caring and highly experienced crew members. They strive to make your stay an extraordinary experience. This vessel will move you to a great diving and let you discover the islands and reefs of the Philippines the EXPLORER WAY.

SCUBA DIVING EQUIPMENT
2 Bauer K14 Compressors - 12 cfm each
50 - Aluminum 80 tanks, Regulators
Weight belts, Weights, Dive lights
BCDs, Nitrox, Tanks and Airfills,
Atlantis 1 Rebreather
First Aid station with oxygen resuscitators
(special arrangement)

ACCOMMODATIONS/SERVICES
Fully air-conditioned interiors, 8 twin cabins with en-suite toilet and shower facilities. 6 twin cabins sharing 5 toilet and shower facilities, 4 open-rinse showers on deck, entertainment center w/ TV, VHS, Stereo, a well-stocked bar, library of books, magazines, and VCR tapes, saloon / lounge, 220/110v service and 16 experienced service crew.

COMMUNICATION AND NAVIGATION
Furuno Marine VHF, 4 X Handheld VHF, Radar -2X
Furuno / JRC, Radio-FurunoSSB, Weather Fax - Furuno,
GPS - Furuno, TENDER - 3 x 8 meters fiberglass with 40 HP engines.

SPECIFICATIONS
Length - 35.56M / 116 feet
Beam - 6.5M / 21 feet
Draft - 3.2M / 10.4 feet
Cruising Speed - 12 knots
Range - 4,000 nautical miles
Hull - Steel with Stabilizers
Main Engine - Nigata 1300PS Diesel
Generators - 2 X Caterpillar 94 KVA
1 X Yanmar 5 kW
Water Maker - HRO 9/400 1.5 tons / day
Water Capacity - 20 tons

The Island Explorer travels to the exciting Tubbataha Reefs and its surrounding areas in the Sulu Sea between the months of March to early June, 2001. Here divers have the opportunity to dive and photograph fascinating coral specimens that thrive in this underwater wilderness that abruptly rises from depths over a thousand feet. Many have been awestruck by vertigo-inducing walls, reef crests and edges, extensive reef flats, deep lagoons with coral beds and giant clams. Large schools of pelagics congregate in this vast reef area to swoop in on divers as they anticipate the blue. Manta, eagle rays, sharks, tuna and wahoo glide pass in their timeless search for sustenance. Many divers have witnessed awesome encounters with magnificent creatures that make these bountiful reefs their homes. Tubbataha was declared a World Heritage site in 1993 by UNESCO because of its rare biodiversity.

During the rest of the year, the Island Explorer is stationed in the Cebu area venturing to the magnificent sites of Malapascua, where thresher sharks and mantas are very often seen. She also travels to the islands off Bohol and Dumaguete where the diving has always been excellent. The Island Explorer has often been commissioned for probing trips into unknown areas amongst the 7,107 islands of the archipelago. It has been used to survey remote regions in search of marine species that have proven to be new to science. It has served in some major archeological projects in which priceless artifacts have been recovered from the ocean floor in contribution to world culture.