Dive Review of Baani Explorer in
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Baani Explorer, Jan, 2006, by Jonathan Bank, Md, USA ( Reviewer 4 reports with 1 Helpful vote). Report 2574.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	The good: nice berths, spacious with clean, excellent bathrooms. Very comfortable, airy and surprisingly nice for a liveaboard. Best food of the three liveaboard trips I have done this calendar year, hands down. Excellent balance of Maldivian foods and standard fare, but also such exotic dishes as sashimi. Great divemasters and not overly paternalistic attention. Great encounter with three large mantas on the last diving day made the whole trip and the somewhat less than perfect viz worthwhile. The bad: unfortunately, despite the stated minimal standards of dive skill, the boat took on board some divers who had very little experience , this caused the crew to immediately rethink the dive profiles for the group; after having heard of the hammerhead and early morning/high current shark encounters the previous group enjoyed, a number of us were a little disappointed by the limitations the newbies imposed on us. In addition, there was no Nitrox available, which seemed to really limit dive times as well as frequency. Only three dives a day most days with the occasional night dives.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Belize, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Red Sea, Malta
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	choppy
Water Temp	25-27°C / 77-81°F	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	20-75 Ft/ 6-23 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Recreation/no deco limits were enforced. While the boat claimed divers should be experienced, it was clear there were divers with less experience than they claimed which restricted the group as a whole.
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	1 or 2	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Decent dunk stations and charging area. Deck was a little crowded.

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Dive Review of Baani Explorer in Maldives

Baani Explorer, Jan, 2006,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

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What I Saw

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Dive Review of Baani Explorer in
Maldives