DogDiver
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Unless you have $$$$$$ and balls of steel. Best find another hobby.
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Unless you have $$$$$$ and balls of steel. Best find another hobby.
But if there is a liveaboard charter *going* to a site then its not really exploration to me.
I'm sure there are liveaboards which are hired for actual exploration projects.Spot on!
Cavers know it best
I'm sure there are liveaboards which are hired for actual exploration projects.
If the website says
"Join one of our six exploration weeks in the Galapagos in 2023!"
that's not exploring diddly to me even if some of the sites are new or comparatively unknown.
you can steer the direction of a charter if you fill up the seats with enough of your buddies to have a say - my group of diver friends have paid for a LOB in the solomons to dive the Atlanta and they agreed to set aside 3 days to do it, we regularly dive in the solomon's and charter boats to go where we want - last trip we discovered new stuff in part because the operators also keen explorersWell sometimes it does exist. Give you an example...
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It's says in the title it's exploration... ;-)
And yes it is... it's sort of a liveaboard (well if you count sleeping in your sleepingbag on deck)Yes it's sort of a liveaboard (it's organised by a divebase, you pay a fee for gas and the boat), meaning you sleep in your sleepingbag on deck or they go back to land. It's only CCR because it's not possible to refill for OC dives at that depth, the wrecks are potential wrecks, so there is uncertainty for everybody involved. They've been doing it since 2009 I believe and have discovered really interesting new wrecks.
Big kudos to them!