What are your safety standards?

To ensure your safety, the vessel requires the following of all divers:

1. All divers must be certified as open water scuba divers by an internationally recognized certification organization.
2. We recommend that divers log at least one dive within the 12 months prior to boarding the vessel, or are encouraged to participate in a refresher course before traveling (no refresher course is available onboard).
3. All divers must adhere to the buddy system.
4. All divers must log in and out of the water with a member of the diving staff.
5. A dive computer, SMB and reef hooks are required (SMB and reef hooks can be borrowed on board)
6. Dive lights are required for night dives.
7. By local regulations, decompression and solo diving are not allowed under any conditions. The maximum allowed depth is 100 feet (30 meters).
8. Diving activities must cease when the consumption of alcohol begins.
9. Please note that due to a combination of staff and equipment logistics, insurance requirements and local diving regulations, rebreathers, diver propulsion vehicles (DPVs) and multi-cylinder configurations (except for a small pony bottle) may not be used aboard Explorer Ventures Fleet vessels.
10. Dive accident insurance (DAN, DiveAssure or equivalent) is required. If you arrive without proof of a policy that covers recompression chamber treatment and medical evacuation, you’ll be required to purchase a short-term policy (which has very limited coverage) valid for the duration of your stay in the Maldives. A per day policy and weekly policies are available. The cost is US$9/day or US$38.5/week (prices subject to change, due to currency fluctuations and whether it is pre-paid or paid onboard).  Please note that local short-term policies may not be available for divers 75 years of age or older, so a policy must be obtained in advance of the trip.