Palau Aggressor IIKoror

Experience the best reefs in Palau onboard the luxurious Palau Aggressor II.
Palau Aggressor II offers regular 7-night excursions from Koror every Sunday year round and explores the legendary outer reefs south-east of Koror and around Peleliu Island.

Palau Aggressor II, built in the US in 1994, is a 32m (106ft) 18-passenger catamaran providing comfort, safety and stability. She is 9m (30ft) wide, with an average cruising speed of 21 knots and a shallow draft. Power outlets are 110v. The comfortable salon is attractively furnished, featuring a well-stocked library and entertainment centre with large screen TV and DVD/CD player with all video camera capabilities.

A self-service indoor/outdoor bar is open 24 hours a day. Three large dining tables are also part of this huge room. Breakfast and dinner are eaten indoors; however, lunch is often enjoyed alfresco at the bar. A soothing hot tub is located on the open deck near the bar. The third level features a "moon deck," a 30-foot wide shaded deck. Here guests may relax on a chaise lounge or nap in a hammock.

There are 8 Deluxe staterooms with queen size bed plus upper single bunk, and 1 smaller twin share cabin, all located on the main deck. All staterooms feature ensuite bathrooms with hair dryers and large picture windows. They are individually climate-controlled, fully carpeted, with generous storage space and insulated for sound.

Each diver has his/her own personal dive station complete with seat and locker. Most dives are made from the high-speed tender boat. This 9m (30ft) tender accommodates all divers. Each diver has a tank rack and seat on the tender. All tanks are filled in place with either air or nitrox (extra charge).

Divers board the tender at deck level then the boat is lowered into the water by a hydraulic lift. After completion of the dive, the tender cruises into the lift and returns to deck level where passengers safely disembark. Divers can rinse off with two freshwater showers on the dive deck. A dive briefing area, camera table with low-pressure air hoses, camera rinse tank, freshwater showers and photo lab are all part of the roomy dive deck. A full range of photo and video equipment is available for hire on board, as well as a variety of dive courses including Nitrox certification.

Legendary dive sites like Blue Hole, Shark City, Blue Corner, German Channel, Siaes Tunnel or Ulong Channel offer dramatic coral walls, drop offs and caverns with close shark and manta ray encounters in warm tropical waters with excellent underwater visibility year-round. Most dives in Palau are drift dives, and reef hooks are used frequently in the strongest currents near the reef tops; therefore, Palau is a dive destination most suitable for experienced divers.

Passengers arriving in Palau on Sunday morning are met by an Aggressor representative at the Palau Airport and taken to the Palau Pacific Resort for a few hours, or picked up from any hotel in Koror after 4:00pm. After embarkation procedures are completed a delicious dinner is served by the onboard chef. Diving begins Monday morning and ends Saturday before noon; Palau Aggressor II returns to port shortly afterwards. Most guests sign up for four to five dives a day.

Passengers may spend the afternoon shopping, sightseeing or just relaxing onboard until an evening cocktail party is hosted by the crew. Later on Saturday night, everyone will dine at a local restaurant (at own expense). Check-out is 8:00 a.m. Sunday morning, when complimentary airport or hotel transfers conclude the journey. It is possible to check our earlier for the flight to Yap which departs in the early Sunday morning hours.

The Palau Aggressor II is one of the longest established liveaboards in the fleet. She is operating in Palau since many years and has a very knowledgeable crew.