Papua New Guinea
Paradise Sport

Port: Alotau/Kavieng
Length: 100 foot catamaran, M/V
Beam: 33 feet
Maximum number of passengers: 22
Crew: 10

Accommodations: 10 air-conditoned staterooms. Premium and standard accommodations have private bathrooms, picture windows. The premium stateroom has a king size bed and settee. Economy and budget staterooms have share bathrooms. Large air-conditioned salon with VCR and TV. Choice of dining: dining room or alfresco deck, complimentary wine. E-6 Processing, large camera area, nitrox. Itinerary: 7 to 10 day trips, Kavieng and Milne Bay.

M.V. Chertan

Port: Alotau
Length: 60 foot fiber glass, M/V
Beam: 21 feet
Maximum number of passengers: 12
Crew: 7

Accommodations: 6 air-conditioned twin cabins with vanity and basin. Two share bathrooms. Itinerary: 10 night trips to Milne Bay. Your host, Rob van der Loos, has been taking divers to Milne Bay for over 10 years and is an expert in finding critters.
 

Star Dancer

Port: Alatau
Length: 120 foot aluminum mono hull, M/V
Beam: 23 feet
Maximum number of passengers: 16
Crew: 7

Accommodations: 8 deluxe air-conditioned staterooms with private bathroom, picture windows. Large air-conditioned lounge with VCR and TV, a la carte dining for dinner, all alcoholic beverages included. Large camera area, E-6 Processing, nitrox. Itinerary: 7 and 10 day trips, Kimbe Bay, Witu Islands and Father's Reef area.

Telita

Port: Tufi Dive Resort
Length: 66 feet
Crew: 5
Maximum number of passengers: 10

Accommodations: 6 air-conditioned cabins, plus 2 bathrooms to share. The Telita has recently been refitted and is now more comfortable than ever. The boat is now permanently at Tufi and will visit the regional sites as well as the Trobian and Ferguson Islands, and Milne Bay.
 

Febrina

Port: Kimbe Bay
Length: 72 foot steel mono hull/M/V
Beam: 20 feet
Maximum number of passengers: 14

Accommodations: 7 cabins, one stateroom with a double bed and a private bathroom, 2 deluxe cabins with upper and lower berths and private bathrooms, 2 quad cabins that share a bathroom, and 2 twin cabins that share a bathroom. There is a double camera table on the dive deck. The captain, Alan Raabe has a reputation with serious and "old time repeat customers". He has been diving these renown reefs for many years, and there is always an element of surprise, some exploratory diving. Itinerary: 7 to 10 day trips, mostly in the Kimbe Bay area, Witu Islands, Father's Reef.
 

Golden Dawn

Port: Port Moresby/Madang
Length: 80 foot twin screw,M/V
Beam: 22 feet
Maximum number of passengers: 12
Crew: 8

Accommodations: 5 twin cabins and one master cabin, all fully air-conditioned and sharing 4 bathrooms.
Itinerary: Eastern Fields, North of the Coral Sea, Milne Bay, Kavieng, Wewak, Madang.
 

Tiata

Port: Milne Bay/Kavieng
Length: 65 foolt long luxury live-aboard
Maximum number of passengers: 10
Crew: 5

Accommodations: 5 cabins with vanity areas and skylights. There are 2 share bathrooms. The boat is beautifully built of beautiful woods and was designed especially for divers. The dive deck was designed to allow easy access to and from the water. Itineraries are designed for the diver who has done it all. Much of the diving is on an independent basis with new exploratory sites in mind.