Great Barrier Reef Special
Last minute special for February travel - receive $A200pp off 4 and 3 night Expeditions or $A500pp off our 7 night Expeditions From Cairns - Australia...
Mike Ball Dive Expeditions offers you Australia's best diving holiday experience. Our Dive Expeditions are suited to the adventurous diver seeking pelagics, deep walls, incredible macro diversity and shark action. Mike Ball Dive Expeditions' 30 years of operation ensures that you will dive only the best dive sites.
Our vessel, Spoilsport, is Australia’s most awarded liveaboard dive vessel. Her combination of space, stability, and diver conveniences is unmatched and our Fly Dive itineraries include a 250km scenic reef flight that provides stunning views of the Great Barrier Reef.
Enjoy features such as: superb cuisine; Nitrox (EANx32) fills & instruction; Camera stations on dive deck; excellent macro and wide angle photography opportunities; huge Potato Cod and Maori Wrasse at the world famous Cod Hole; Dwarf Minke Whale encounters (June and July); Shark attraction at Osprey Reef.
Mike Ball Dive Expeditions is the winner of 10 prestigious Rodale's Reader's Awards.
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