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S.M.Y. ONDINA
Contact details
info@thebestdivingintheworld.com
THE BOAT
Launched in 2001, this traditional wooden schooner – known as Phinisi in the local language – was built in South Sulawesi by the Bugis tribes of seafarers, using tropical timbers and following traditional methods from their ancestry. Custom-built under the direct supervision of our director of operations, she was built by a diver for the divers.
ACCOMMODATION
Her spacious interiors can comfortably sleep 16 passengers in 8 double AC/ensuite cabins, from which the two on the foredeck have twin single bunks each (cabins 1 and 2), while the remaining six cabins are fitted with double bed and a single bunk on top. Three gensets provide all-around-the-clock 220 v electricity supply, with two-pin European standard sockets. Ondina is currently based in Sorong, from where she operates different routes in Raja Ampat, Cenderawasih Bay, North Banda Sea, Triton Bay and Halmahera.
THE CREW
- Cruise director
- Captain
- First Officer
- 2 Deckhands
- Chief Engineer
- Second Engineer
- Mechanic
- Cook
- Assistant Cook
- 2 Waiters-Roomboys
- 2 Divemasters
Cruise Director S.M.Y Ondina - Fede Moreno
TECHNICAL DATA
- Deck Length: 32 meters
- Beam: 8 meters
- Draft: 2.6 meters
- Hull: Iron Wood
- Engine: 400 HP Man 8 cylinders
- Sails: 300 square meters in 7 sails
- Cruising Speed: 7 Knots
- Water: 10,000 liters plus watermaker deposits
- Fuel tanks: 10,000 liters
- Gensets: 2 x 30 Kw plus 1 x 20 Kw
- Compressors: 2 x Bauer Mariner plus spare block
- Nitrox: Membrane system with Atlas Copco compressor
- Dive tanks: 2 sets aluminum and steel, 12 and 15 liters, DIN / INT
- Dive gear: 6 complete sets for rent plus spare parts
- Tenders: 2 x 4,85 meter RIB plus spare fiberglass, with 40 Hp Yamaha offboard engines
- GPS / Plotter, Radar 16 miles, Depth finder
- SSB Multiband radio, VHF radio and handheld VHF radios
- AIS and SART
- Satellite phone Thuraya
SAFETY EQUIPMENT
- Liferafts with capacity for 25 and 15 people
- Fire extinguishers and CO2 bombs on engines
- Hydrant with diesel pump
- Hand flares, smoke signals and signaling rockets
- EPIRB
- Nautilus Marine Rescue GPS
- 3 x 40 liter oxygen tanks plus portable DAN kit
- Life jackets and ring buoys
- First aids kit