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Fly Dive Coral Sea |
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| Duration: 4 Nights |
| Departing: Every Thursday 7pm,
Cairns Trinity Wharf |
| Returning: Every Monday 11am,
Complimentary transfers to local accommodation |
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| 4 nights / 3 dive days / 14 dives - Includes
2 night dives |
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| Thursday: Check-in and Departure
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| Prior to 4:00pm. Check-in luggage
at Mike Ball office - 143 Lake Street, Cairns. |
| If unable to check-in prior
to 4:00pm phone us on 07 4031 5484 for departure details. |
| 6:00pm our crew meet you at
the Cairns Corporate Towers entrance and escort you to Spoilsport
– Trinity Wharf. |
| Cruise overnight to the magnificent
Ribbon Reefs, the first stop on your 700km dive odyssey. |
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| Friday: Ribbon Reef #9 -
Pixie Gardens, Cod Hole |
| Buddy up with diver size fish
that dive with you at the Cod Hole! |
| Swim with giant potato cod,
napoleon wrasse, moray eels, tuna and barracuda. |
| Enjoy close encounters with
huge Maori wrasse. |
| Anticipate spectacular coral
gardens, spotted rays, reef sharks and green turtle sightings.
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| Night dive where decorator
crabs, egg cowry shells, moray eels and crayfish are just a few
of the creatures you can find. |
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| Saturday & Sunday: Coral
Sea - Osprey Reef |
| Cruise 100 miles overnight
to Osprey Reef in the Coral Sea. |
| Enjoy 40 meter (132ft) visibility
with spectacular walls disappearing to 1000 metres. |
| Witness the resident shark
population including grey whalers, whitetip reef sharks, silvertips
and hammerheads. |
| Search for the commonly seen
green and loggerhead turtles. |
| Find the caves, overhangs and
spectacular walls adorned with huge soft coral trees and gorgonian
fans. |
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| Monday - “Like the astronauts
witness the Great Barrier Reef as the eighth wonder of the world!”
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| Breakfast on board and transfer
to Lizard Island. |
| Spectacular low level Great
Barrier Reef flight to Cairns. |
| 150 miles, altitude 700-1000ft
- saves 12 hours travel time. |
| Return at approximately 11:00am
for courtesy transfer to city hotels. |
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| Prime dives sites - GUARANTEED!
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| This itinerary has been designed
to include the ‘prime’ Ribbon Reef and Coral Sea dive sites. |
| If weather forces an itinerary
change our surety of access to the prime Ribbon Reef sites is
your guarantee of the best possible diving. |
| Spoilsport’s outstanding stability
minimises disruption to your itinerary and your diving experience. |
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| Note: |
| Itinerary subject to change. |
| Flying After Diving - the surface
interval between the last dive completed at 5pm and flying at
9.30am is 16.5 hours, which exceeds the DAN minimum requirement
of 12 hours. An additional safety feature is that Hinterland Air
fly below 1000ft (weather permitting). |
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