Welcome to the MV Pindito
Pindito offers the most experienced and knowledgeable liveaboard operation in Raja Ampat and in Komodo. She also has unparallel experience in these UNESCO World Heritage coral reef areas. In addition the Pindito have expanded their venues with new offerings to Halmahera (“the New Frontier”) and down the west coast of Sulawesi including the Lembeh Straits and Bunaken National Marine Park. Now you can join the 37 metre long and 8 metre wide Pindito as she sails to and dives upon the most biodiverse coral reefs in the world. With a crew of 17 standing-by to look after you during your expedition you will be sure to discover the best diving in the world in style.Pindito offers six double cabins and two twin cabins, creating very comfortable accommodations for up to 16 guests.
The food is influenced by international and above all Indonesian (or Asian) dishes. Breakfast is served in two slots. Continental breakfast before the first dive, sumptuous breakfast buffet after the first dive. Lunch and dinner with an Asian flair, featuring meat, fish, and a variety of side dishes. Save room for special sweets and delightful desserts! Between meals, the crew will serve you snacks, including cake and cookies. After the last dive of the day, unwind with a beer or a cocktail or a nice glass of wine. If you have a particular favourite wine let us know and we'll see if they cannot have it onboard waiting for you. Beer is complimentary but cocktails and wine are charged extra. Soft drinks and hot drinks are available all day long.
Massage is available on the boat.
Relax in the luxury of our teakwood-paneled cabins. Each 10' x 10' cabin is named after a mystical Indonesian island and, depending on your reservation, is appointed either with a twin bed plus an upper bunk, or with a spacious double bed…your choice. All cabins feature ensuite heads with hot and cold running water (vanity and shower as well as toilet), individually controlled air conditioning and five 220V AC electrical outlets (German 2 pole plugs), available 24hrs a day. The crew is devoted to your comfort and will attend to your cabin daily, keeping it clean and tidy, providing fresh towels as necessary. Additional towels are available for you on deck as needed.
After you've enjoyed a continental breakfast meet our crew on the dive deck, where you will be given a detailed dive briefing and shown a sketch of the dive site. Then the dive staff will transfer your gear to the Zodiacs. No need to haul your own heavy gear, just jump into the Zodiac and after a comfortable, short ride, you'll be ready to dive incredibly biodiverse reefs. For your safety and peace of mind, our well-trained Zodiac drivers will accompany you from a safe and prudent distance during your entire dive.
While underwater you can join the guide for a special tour or just do your own thing. After the dive, refreshments will be waiting for you aboard Pindito. Cool out and then enjoy a Balinese massage from our onboard masseuse. Kick back and chat about your diving experiences and sip a cool beverage while screening video and sharing photos of your dive. Typically four dives are scheduled per day. The primary focus of the Pindito diving instructors and dive guides is to look after your safety and comfort. Dive guides lead all dives. Though you are certainly not required to accompany your guides during the dives, they'll keep an eye out for your safety. And if you want a specially guided tour just ask—they'll be very happy to accommodate.
Our guides' trained eyes keep you safe, and they can spot unusual marine life of interest to the keenest photo and video enthusiasts. Pindito has three Zodiac. The crew will set up and break down all your diving equipment and stow it on the Zodiacs for you. Show the guides how you like your gear set up, and they'll take over and meticulously prepare, move and stow your gear for the entire trip, as well as carefully rinse and dry it at the end of your trip. Need help on and off with your tank? No problem, your crew will be there to assist you. If you have back issues, the crew is happy to help you on and off with your tank while you are in the water…don’t carry that load if it's challenging for you! Pindito’s crew is all about safety and service, and with nineteen crew members aboard to serve you, you can look forward to diving with the greatest of ease. Explain the particulars of your camera system to your guides—they'll deliver it to your Zodiac with care and, after the dive, they'll carefully carry from the zodiac for you and ensure it gets taken directly to the dedicated rinse tank. Photographers and videographers will love the convenience and functionality of the Pindito's camera room, located aft of the Lounge on the Main Deck.
Pindito has a variety of different itineraries around Indonesia.
The North Sulawesi tour goes through a variety of atolls which are surrounded from the nicest reefs, plateaus and scarps. Schools of surgeons, fusiliers, black snappers, grunts, barracudas and batfishes and vast quantity of coral fishes as well as silky sharks and a lot of macro. The diverse atolls which are visited, afford a lot of variety. From Macro to bigger fish schools you can see everything.
The Highlight of this tour is definitely the Bunaken National Marine park. This park is one of the best dive spots in Asia and the whole world and belongs as a macro paradise.
On the south coast of Halmahera you will dive walls and drop-offs with big fish action. The small islands off the west coast of Halmahera are home to great coral reefs. The end of the trip in North Sulawesi offers you pristine coral reefs, great fish life and spectacular critter diving in the famous black sand of the Lembeh Strait. A diverse trip with something for everybody!
A huge variety of riffs, stone-coral-riffs, scarps littered with soft-coral and macro species offered on the Komodo National Park cruise. The special addition is some cooler water around south Komodo where sites such as Manta Alley. This guarantees on every dive another underwater world. The east islands from Bali are named Nusa Tenggara. These Islands are less developed and this is the reason why there are only a few tourists.
This is a region with thousands of isle, which have been pushed up throughout the thousands of years and build a wonderful scene. You come across caves, or caverns everywhere. You´ll find rocks as big as cathedrals, over hangs that improve the dramatic sight of this breathtaking region. Of course these sights will continue in no less impressing views under water.
Misool is one of the places on earth where you´ll find the most various species of fish, hard and soft corals, sponges, worms, nudibranches, shrimps and crabs and all kind of non-vertebrates, like cuttle fish and octopus. You will as well come across wobbegong shark and epaulet sharks, which you will only find in the region of „Raja Ampat“. Giant clams as well as fantastic tiny shells. Photographers as well as Videographers will have the dives of their lifetime for shoot macro all over.
This cruise gives you the impressions of the Indopacific and the Pacific Sea. Untouched landscapes and impressing huge coral banks dominate these very thinly populated isles. The Pindito crew has explored the dive sites around and near the Equator. This cruise offers you new unexplored areas, where very few people have dived before. The number of isles is immense. Right in the equator and very close to the island of Kawe there is a little island called Batu Jamur. This rocky peak that stands out of the sea is an "eldorado" for every macro freak. Tunicas, feather stars, nudi branches, just as bigger animals like napoleons, wrasse, moray eels and epaulet sharks can be seen. North of the equator lies the archipelago of Waijag. Many different outlying islands offer wonderful coral gardens and many different fishes.
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