New Horizon Sail & Dive

Come and experience the Great Barrier Reef without the crowds! With a maximum of just 10 passengers and an attentive crew of 3, you can enjoy a more personal reef experience, exclusive to a small group.

Choose from either 3 days/2 nights aboard Santa Maria, the classic and romantic gaff rigged schooner or 2 days/1night on Coral Sea Dreaming, a modern steel ketch.

The pristine outer reef sites we go to are not visited by the masses and have been chosen for their unique coral formations and abundant marine life. Without a real rigid schedule, we allow you to go at your own pace and to be as active or as relaxed as you like. Whether you are an avid diver or looking to experience diving for the very first time, both certified and introductory dives are available, and you'll get to enjoy it with just a small group.

Night dives, drift dives, and advanced courses are also available.

Diving not your thing? Snorkelling is also an excellent way to experience the reef.

Join in and help sail the boat or just ‘supervise’ from the sundeck. Our friendly and experienced crew will pay every attention to your comfort and well-being, to help ensure that you return from your holiday with great memories to last a lifetime… and quite often some new friends.

Affiliation:

PADI, SSI, SDI, TDI

Boat Description:

Santa Maria - Traditional Gaff-Rigged Schooner- 10 passengers + 3 crew

Coral Sea Dreaming - Modern Steel Ketch- 10 passengers + 3 crew

Sites Visited:

Thetford Reef offers 4 differents dive sites with depths from 8m to 25m, with a lots of marine life including turtles, giant maori wrasses, and reef sharks.

Flynn Reef offers great coral gardens and canyons and the visibility is normally superb. Many blue spotted stingrays and species of smaller sharks can be found along the reef edge. The many isolated bommies and scattered reef behind the main body of reef provide great opportunities to explore and provide a unique experience.

The Pinnacles at Milln Reef have everything that you are looking for on a great coral reef dive. A reef face that runs from the surface down to about 15 metres hosts a great variety of corals as well as fish species. Large schools of humphead parrot fish, several different species of sharks and the resident turtles are common sights.

Moore Reef offers 5 different dive sites with depths from 10m to 25m with amazing canyons and swimthroughs and a great variety of coral formations, anemone fish and schools of reef fish.

Facilities:

• Camera Hire
• Resort/Intro Dives
• Scuba hire

• Showers
• Own Boat(s)
• Own Liveaboard(s)