MV Nimrod Explorer

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Nimrod Explorer offers a more personable experience to divers exploring the Great Barrier Reef with a maximum guest count of 18 divers. An experienced crew ensures you get the most out of your Great Barrier Reef liveaboard.

The twin engine catamaran is spacious and stable with features usually only found on much larger vessels. The twin hull has allowed the boat designers to be less frugal than usual with space in both the public areas and in the cabins, doing away with the idea that liveaboards are cramped.

Nimrod Explorer has a well equipped saloon offering relaxation in a roomy lounge after dives, which also doubles as the dining area. A bar contributes to the relaxing atmosphere, and an entertainment area featuring a TV and DVD player caters to movie lovers.

If you prefer the fresh ocean air of the Great Barrier Reef, the Nimrod Explorer offers you 2 open air decks to choose from. The top deck is a large shaded area from where you can enjoy the outdoors without being singed by the sun. The expansive bow area is where you want to go if sun worshiping is your thing.

You can make up to 5 dives per day from Nimrod Explorer depending, of course, on what the weather is doing. All dives are made directly from the well equipped dive deck at the rear of the vessel where twin dive platforms ensure easy entry, with 2 tenders providing additional safety.

Nimrod Explorer offers a trip range of 4 to 8 days, from Cod Hole to the Ribbon Reefs or even further north to the incredible visibility found in the North Coral Sea, or onwards to the lesser visited parts of the Great Barrier Reef towards Papua New Guinea.

Standard trips depart every Tuesday and Saturday, offering divers a chance to interact with some tremendous pelagics including manta rays and, in season, dwarf minke whales.

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The Nimrod Explorer features 3 large Double/Twin cabins and 3 spacious Quad cabins, all with en-suite facilities and air-conditioning. The design of the Nimrod Explorer allows for ample cabin space and an abundance of storage for your luggage.

2 of the Double cabins are located on the upper deck, 1 featuring a double bed and the other has twin beds. The third Double cabin, located on the lower deck, features a single bed over a double bed.

The Quad cabins, all of which are located on the lower deck, consist of 4 bunk beds each.

All cabins have:

• Porthole windows
• Air-conditioning
• Private en-suite bathroom facilities
• Reading lights
• Towels
• Bedding
• 24-hour electricity (3 pin 240 volt)
• Fire warning system
• Fire extinguishers
• Life jackets

No. of bathrooms / showers - 6 / 6 - hot water

The crew comprises:

• 2 Instructors
• Captain
• Chef
• Engineer
• Hostess / Cabin Attendant

Enriched air nitrox - 2 Dive tenders - Separate rinse tank for cameras - Lounge & bar with TV, DVD, music centre - Computer & CD burner - Books, magazines, games, fish ID books - 32m² Sun deck with shaded area and sun matresses

Aboard the Nimrod Explorer your stomach will be well looked after, with 3 meals a day and snacks to quiet the grumbles in between.

Breakfast consists of the usual suspects, including eggs, bacon, cereal and toast. For lunch it ranges from soup and sandwiches to burgers, pasta and a choice of salad or quiche. Dinner is a feast and consists of lots of fresh vegetables, pasta, rice, chicken, pork, fish and beef.

• Meals are served buffet service in the air-conditioned indoor saloon.
• Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks.
• Tea, coffee, water and cordials are included on Nimrod Explorer.
• Alcoholic and canned drinks available for purchase at the bar.
• Dinner is the first meal of the cruise.
• Vegetarian and Halal requirements can be catered for with advance notice.

• Built in 1984, restored in 2004
• Size - 22m x 8m
• Top speed - 11 knots
• Cruising speed - 9 knots
• 2 x 170 HP Gardner diesel engines
• 2 x 80 KW Gardner generators
• 2 Bauer K14 dive tank compressors
• Aluminium scuba tanks with INT fittings (DIN adapters are for rent)
• Enriched air nitrox
• Electricity - 220V 24 hours per day
• Water capacity - 3,785 litres
• Fresh water maker - 6,000 litres per day
• Fuel capacity - 11,200 litres

• 1 aluminium, 25 HP dive tender
• Life raft
• Global positioning system
• Radar
• Satellite telephone
• VHF & SSB radios
• LCD depth sounder/ recorder
• Autopilot
• First aid box
• Oxygen - continuous flow & demand valve - 16,400 litres
• Life jackets throughout
• Fire / bilge pump alarm
• Fire detectors and extinguishers throughout
• Fire suppression systems
• Emergency lighting
• EPIRB