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SY COLONA II
SCHEDULE 2008 - 2009
will be updated soon
Prices include :
- Accommodation on board
- Full meals (International cuisine) , refreshment/snack, unlimited soft drink (No alcohol drinks)
- Tanks, Weights & Weight belts
- Dive Master
- Land transfer between the yacht and airport
Prices exclude :
- Air fare and tax
- Entry fee for Similan National Marine Park $55.00 per person per trip
- Entry fee for *Myanmar; USD 200 per person per trip
- Rental diving equipments are BCD, regulator, fin, mask, torch etc. |
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Itinerary
Myanmar (Burma)
Mergui Archipelago
4 days / 4 nights
Our 4 days / 4 nights program is designed for those which feel a week on the boat is too much. It still gives an excellent introduction to the Mergui Archipelago's diverse underwater life, as well as visiting exciting islands with dense rainforest and white beaches. The last day of diving at Faraway Bank and Western Rocky Island is as good as it gets. Dramatic underwater scenery, good visibility and plenty of fish life.
Day 1 Embark 09.00 am and sail to High Rock
Dive HR and overnight at Cavern Isl., Night dive
Day 2 Dive Cavern Isl. and Boulder Rk.
Overnight at Nga Khin Nyo Gyee is
Day 3 Dive North Rk & UW Garden
Overnight bay Andaman Resort
Day 4 Dive Faraway Bank and Western Rocky Isl.
Day 5 Leave for Kawtoung early morning.
Arrive noontime and depart Colona II
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Myanmar (Burma)
Mergui Archipelago
7 nights / 6 days
Colona II was one of the first boats which were legally able to do dive trips in Burma back in 1997.
the Islands, covered in rain forest and with white beaches literally everywhere, are still absolutely pristine with prolific bird and wild life.
The diving is diverse and exciting. Burma Banks are famous for its sharks and clear water. The Islands between Western Rocky Island in the south and Black Rock in the north offers world class diving adventures.
Trip Description:
With a maximum of 6 divers we can very much make up a trip itinerary and the number of dives a day according to what the group wants. However, if the weather conditions are right we would, on a 7 nights trip dive the sites between Western Rocky Island, Burma Banks and as far north as Black Rock . Still leave time for shore excursions and beach combing. |
Similan Islands 4 days/ 4nights
Departure date: Evening 20:00-21:00 transfer from your hotel to the jetty in Patong & departure for Similan Islands.
Day 1: 3dives + 1 nightdive on Similan Isl. No.9
Day 2: 3dives + 1 nightdive on Similan Isl. No.8
Day 3: 3dives + 1 nightdive on Similan Isl. No.6+7
Day 4: 2dives on Shark Fin Reef / Boulder City Depart. Similan 12:00-13:00. Arriv. Patong 20:00-21:00pm Transfer back to your hotel.
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Similan-Surin Islands 6days / 6 nights
Departure date: Evening 20:00-21:00 transfer from your hotel to the jetty in Patong & departure for Similan Islands.
Day 1: 3 dives + 1nightdive on Similan Islands
Day 2: 3 dives + 1 nightdive on Similan Islands
Day 3: 4 dives at Koh Bon & Koh Tachai
Day 4: 4 dives at Richilieu Rock / Surin
Day 5: 4 dives at Koh Bon & Koh Tachai
Day 6: 2dives on Shark Fin Reef / Boulder City Depart. Similan 12:00-13:00. Arriv.Patong 20:00-21:00pm Transfer back to your hotel.
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Diving
Route
Boat
Information
COLONA II
takes a maximum of 6 guests, which are accommodated in 3 comfortable 2 bed cabins.
There are 2 toilet/showers. The yacht is air-conditioned throughout. The cozy
cockpit offers shade for the sun and shelter for the odd tropical shower.
When you taste the results of Kim’s cooking, both
Thai and European, you understand why Freddy married her in the first place.
Should you be desperate to lose weight, we cannot recommend this boat!
Coffee, tea, cold drinking water and snacks are there
for you at all times. Soft drinks, beer and imported wines are available on
board.
Spacious aft deck with well-organized dive benches
provides ample place for kitting up and off and ensures that between dives no
gear clutters the boat.
Colona’s compressor is electrically driven and, as
it is mounted down below in the bow, causes no disturbing noise to the guests
at all. Custom made swimladder facilitates entry to the yacht and a 3,50m RIB
tender does the same for drift dives. There is ample A/C 110 & 220 volt
power for charging strobes and torches, a rinsing bin is on the aft deck to
flush your UW camera. Diving is for certified divers only, normally no courses
are taught on board. |
1: Bathroom
2: Guest Cabin
3: Guest Cabin |
4: Saloon
5: Guest Cabin
6: Galley |
7: Forward Locker
8: Crew
9: Bathroom |
TECHNICAL
DATA
- 60 ft ( 18 m)
steel cutter ketch
- builder Perry
Yachts, Great Britain
- beam 4,20 m (14
ft) draught 2.50m ( 8ft)
- working sails
,main, mizzen, staysail genoa sqm, chute sqm
- engine Ford 120hp,generator
Perkins 15 KVA, shaft generator 11 KVA
- water capacity
2 tons, fuel 2 tons
- electronics :
GPS, fishfinder, radar, VHF, SSB, autopilot
- air-conditioned
throughout
- 3 x 2 person guestcabins
- 2x toilet /shower
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DIVING
- 8 x 12 liter
(83 qft) aluminum tanks INT connections
- silent 210 ltr/min
Bauer compressors
- dedicated dive
benches
- 3,50 RIB tender
with 10 HP outboard
- custom made
diveladder
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S/Y Colona II and his captain
Norwegian
Freddy Storheil and his faithful yacht COLONA II have been around for over 20
years. "Around" can be taken literally as they have circumnavigated the world
together twice.
Chartering started
in 1977 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, then literally consisting of one hut on the
beach, now a bustling dive resort, famous worldwide. COLONA II was probably
the first yacht ever to enable divers to take out trips to Southern Egypt, Sudan,
Yemen, and Djibouti as well as being the first to dive many of the sites that
are now world-famous.
Chilst undertaking his circumnavigations Freddy has dived and sailed
in places that would fill us all with envy: many of the Pacific islands, Maldives,
Caribbean, Chagos, Red Sea etc.
We are dealing with one experienced captain here.
Freddy, in the mean time has set up Colona Dive Club, a top
quality dive center in Sharm El Sheikh which can offer all PADI courses as well
as daytrips and live-aboards in the Northern Red Sea.
In 1993 he met his
wife Kim and whilst visiting Thailand, her home country, he immediately fell
in love with the place.
He sailed COLONA
II here in 1995 and he and Kim have been making sailing-and divingtrips since
then.
Many of their old guests as well as new ones have been taken to the finest places
on the Andaman sea.
Keen underwaterphotographer himself, a considerable number among
Freddy & Kim’s guests are well known from the various diving publications. |
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