FLY DIVE CORAL SEA, NORTHBOUND, AUSTRALIA
4 nights / 3 dive days / 14 dives - Includes 2 night dives
Thursday : Check-in and Departure Prior to 4:00pm . Check-in luggage at 143 Lake Street , Cairns .
7:00pm board Spoilsport at the Marlin Jetty - Berth 16, Cairns.
Cruise overnight to the magnificent Ribbon Reefs, the first stop on your 700km dive odyssey.
Friday : Ribbon Reef - 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.
Night dive where decorator crabs, egg cowry shells, moray eels and crayfish are just a few of the creatures you can find.
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 1000metres. 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.
Monday - “Like the astronauts witness the Great Barrier Reef as the eighth wonder of the world!”
Breakfast on board and transfer to Lizard Island . .Spectacular low level Great Barrier Reef flight to Cairns .
150 miles, altitude 600-1000ft - saves 12 hours travel time.
Return at approximately 11:00am for courtesy transfer to city hotels.
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 diving.
• 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 Skytrans flys below 1000ft, weather permitting.
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