Bikini Atoll (11 Days / 10 Nights - 13 Dives)
Trip highlights: shark action, great macro life/ marine diversity, schooling fish & big pelagics
Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving
Dive sites and activities: Bikini Atoll: USS Saratoga (aircraft carrier), Nagato (Japanese super-dreadnought battleship), USS Arkansas (dreadnought), USS Lamson (destroyer), USS Anderson (destroyer), USS Apogon (submarine), USS Carlisle (attack support boat); Kwajalein Atoll: Prinz Eugen (German heavy cruiser)
Day 1
A Truk Master representative will meet you at the dock at Ebeye Island and transport you to the boat by tender for boarding. The cruise director will welcome you onboard, assign you to your cabin, give a crew introduction, a boat and safety briefing, and explain the plans for the coming days. You will have time to complete the necessary paperwork, familiarise yourself with the vessel, make yourself comfortable and chat with fellow guests. The distance from Ebeye to Bikini is 400 km. Dinner will be served. After a good night's sleep in your cabin, the diving will commence the next day.
Days 2-13
Bikini Atoll is a “one of a kind” diving paradise. Not only does it feature vivid coral reefs and staggering marine life, but it is also possibly the number one wreck dive destination in the world. After the end of World War II, the USA assembled a fleet of decommissioned naval vessels at Bikini Atoll in order to carry out atomic bomb tests. ‘Castle Bravo’ was the biggest man made explosion in history - a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb that was 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima; it left a 2 km crater in the lagoon. These days Bikini Atoll is a UNESCO World Heritage site and has re-opened, allowing divers to experience a unique collection of historic battleships, cruisers, aircraft carriers and submarines.
There are some excellent sites elsewhere in the Marshall Islands too, including steep walls for drift diving, pelagics and big sharks – tigers and silvertips, a freighter, a seaplane, and a large military dumpsite with trucks, jeeps, tug boats, that is perfect for macro dives and underwater photography.
Most of the wrecks at Bikini Atoll are beyond recreational depth limits, so this cruise is suitable for technical divers only with previous wreck experience. The Cruise Director will schedule 2 dives per day.
The galley staff offer a choice of international and local cuisine over 3 meals per day, served buffet style in the air-conditioned dining area. Breakfast is bacon, baked beans, sausage, hash browns, eggs, oatmeal, vegetable fritters, muffins. Lunch could be pizza, sweet chilli chicken, vegetable lasagne. Dinner might be chicken wings, grilled steak, prawns in black pepper sauce, potato and leek soup. Fresh fruit and selection of tasty treats are served for those that feel peckish between meal times. A range of fruit juices, soft drinks, black, green and aromatic tea, as well as instant and freshly brewed coffee are available. Guests can also order spirits, beer and wine from the cocktail bar. There is a ‘ships only’ bar policy, i.e. no guest alcohol to be consumed onboard.
Part way through the expedition, there will be an afternoon beach BBQ. There will be no diving at that time. And after a morning dive on the penultimate day, the vessel begins its journey back to the dock.
Day 14
After a breakfast, you will disembark at Ebeye Island at be transported back to the ferry dock to return to the airport at Kwajalein.
Bikini Atoll (12 Days / 11 Nights - 15 Dives)
Trip highlights: shark action, great macro life/ marine diversity, schooling fish & big pelagics
Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving
Dive sites and activities: Bikini Atoll: USS Saratoga (aircraft carrier), Nagato (Japanese super-dreadnought battleship), USS Arkansas (dreadnought), USS Lamson (destroyer), USS Anderson (destroyer), USS Apogon (submarine), USS Carlisle (attack support boat); Kwajalein Atoll: Prinz Eugen (German heavy cruiser)
Day 1
A Truk Master representative will meet you at the dock at Ebeye Island and transport you to the boat by tender for boarding. The cruise director will welcome you onboard, assign you to your cabin, give a crew introduction, a boat and safety briefing, and explain the plans for the coming days. You will have time to complete the necessary paperwork, familiarise yourself with the vessel, make yourself comfortable and chat with fellow guests. The distance from Ebeye to Bikini is 400 km. Dinner will be served. After a good night's sleep in your cabin, the diving will commence the next day.
Days 2-11
Bikini Atoll is a “one of a kind” diving paradise. Not only does it feature vivid coral reefs and staggering marine life, but it is also possibly the number one wreck dive destination in the world. After the end of World War II, the USA assembled a fleet of decommissioned naval vessels at Bikini Atoll in order to carry out atomic bomb tests. ‘Castle Bravo’ was the biggest man made explosion in history - a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb that was 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima; it left a 2 km crater in the lagoon. These days Bikini Atoll is a UNESCO World Heritage site and has re-opened, allowing divers to experience a unique collection of historic battleships, cruisers, aircraft carriers and submarines.
Most of the wrecks at Bikini Atoll are beyond recreational depth limits, so this cruise is suitable for for technical divers only with previous wreck experience. The Cruise Director will schedule 2 dives per day..
The galley staff offer a choice of international and local cuisine over 3 meals per day, served buffet style in the air-conditioned dining area. Breakfast is bacon, baked beans, sausage, hash browns, eggs, oatmeal, vegetable fritters, muffins. Lunch could be pizza, sweet chilli chicken, vegetable lasagne. Dinner might be chicken wings, grilled steak, prawns in black pepper sauce, potato and leek soup. Fresh fruit and selection of tasty treats are served for those that feel peckish between meal times. A range of fruit juices, soft drinks, black, green and aromatic tea, as well as instant and freshly brewed coffee are available. Guests can also order spirits, beer and wine from the cocktail bar. There is a ‘ships only’ bar policy, i.e. no guest alcohol to be consumed onboard.
Part way through the expedition, there will be an afternoon beach BBQ. There will be no diving at that time. And after a morning dive on the penultimate day, the vessel begins its journey back to the dock.
Day 12
After a breakfast, you will disembark at Ebeye Island at be transported back to the ferry dock to return to the airport at Kwajalein.
Bikini Atoll (14 Days / 13 Nights - 19 Dives)
Trip highlights: shark action, great macro life/ marine diversity, schooling fish & big pelagics
Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving
Dive sites and activities: Bikini Atoll: USS Saratoga (aircraft carrier), Nagato (Japanese super-dreadnought battleship), USS Arkansas (dreadnought), USS Lamson (destroyer), USS Anderson (destroyer), USS Apogon (submarine), USS Carlisle (attack support boat); Kwajalein Atoll: Prinz Eugen (German heavy cruiser)
Day 1
A Truk Master representative will meet you at the dock at Ebeye Island and transport you to the boat by tender for boarding. The cruise director will welcome you onboard, assign you to your cabin, give a crew introduction, a boat and safety briefing, and explain the plans for the coming days. You will have time to complete the necessary paperwork, familiarise yourself with the vessel, make yourself comfortable and chat with fellow guests. The distance from Ebeye to Bikini is 400 km. Dinner will be served. After a good night's sleep in your cabin, the diving will commence the next day.
Days 2-13
Bikini Atoll is a “one of a kind” diving paradise. Not only does it feature vivid coral reefs and staggering marine life, but it is also possibly the number one wreck dive destination in the world. After the end of World War II, the USA assembled a fleet of decommissioned naval vessels at Bikini Atoll in order to carry out atomic bomb tests. ‘Castle Bravo’ was the biggest man made explosion in history - a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb that was 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima; it left a 2 km crater in the lagoon. These days Bikini Atoll is a UNESCO World Heritage site and has re-opened, allowing divers to experience a unique collection of historic battleships, cruisers, aircraft carriers and submarines.
Most of the wrecks at Bikini Atoll are beyond recreational depth limits, so this cruise is suitable for for technical divers only with previous wreck experience. The Cruise Director will schedule 2 dives per day..
The galley staff offer a choice of international and local cuisine over 3 meals per day, served buffet style in the air-conditioned dining area. Breakfast is bacon, baked beans, sausage, hash browns, eggs, oatmeal, vegetable fritters, muffins. Lunch could be pizza, sweet chilli chicken, vegetable lasagne. Dinner might be chicken wings, grilled steak, prawns in black pepper sauce, potato and leek soup. Fresh fruit and selection of tasty treats are served for those that feel peckish between meal times. A range of fruit juices, soft drinks, black, green and aromatic tea, as well as instant and freshly brewed coffee are available. Guests can also order spirits, beer and wine from the cocktail bar. There is a ‘ships only’ bar policy, i.e. no guest alcohol to be consumed onboard.
Part way through the expedition, there will be an afternoon beach BBQ. There will be no diving at that time. And after a morning dive on the penultimate day, the vessel begins its journey back to the dock.
Day 14
After a breakfast, you will disembark at Ebeye Island at be transported back to the ferry dock to return to the airport at Kwajalein.
[Information is best estimate in ideal circumstances and subject to changes beyond our control. The itinerary is a guide only and may be adapted to best suit the weather, tides, currents, availability and other prevailing events. Price is for the cruise, not for an exact number of dives].