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The Nautilus 2 is a very spacious ship, the cabins are really large, equipped with a double bed and a single bed. The air conditioning is located above the latter. The cabin is cleaned and the beds made several times a day. This is sometimes necessary as there are woodworms in the boat that cause dirt to trickle out of the ceiling in certain places, and there were also dead animals in the cabin every day. Also, one of the windows was not tight and our shelf in the bathroom was always wet, with water coming out of the wall. Generally we had rainy weather, on a liveaboard with sunshine the wetness may not occur. But generally a nice big cabin. The lounge on the main deck is also large. Our dive guide was good. He often searched us around for too long at some sites without telling us what for. This was rather annoying, especially as we were not diving Nitrox and our deco time was compressed by this. Some deco stops were unavoidable, even though we referred to our bottom time early on. The dhoni (dinghy from which you dive) is equipped with a safety system (Enos), for which you get a device for diving, which you can activate if necessary, then an alarm is triggered in the dhoni and you can be located. We had to trigger two buddy groups on our trip and were then searched for and found. Great system, unfortunately they forgot to hand out the devices on the first day, our group was only given them after asking. The food is ok. We had registered two vegetarians, but the cooking crew were not aware of this, we only found out at the end of the trip. There were also two other vegetarians on board, the cooking crew only knew about one person. There was always something vegetarian, but it could be that the other guests had this on their plates, and there was also a lot of fresh coriander, not everyone's cup of tea. The dive sites were the usual ones. Due to our bad weather (storm, rain, high waves), we were unable to follow our planned route. Some alternative sites were used, the crew is very experienced and tried to give the guests a good time. Be careful with the rental equipment. It is very expensive. This was not clear in advance. We could almost have bought four regulators of our own for the rental price of our four regulators. Nitrox also costs money, either as a lump sum for the trip or per dive. The latter is very expensive, as there is always a 10% service charge on top of the basic amount and 16% tax on this combined amount. This is also the case for all drinks. You should know better...
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