Dive Review of
Baani Explorer in
Maldives

 Belize, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Red Sea, Malta 

Dive Conditions

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.  

Decent dunk stations and charging area. Deck was a little crowded.  

Overall Rating

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. 

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