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Explorer Ventures Goes BIG: Up to 50% off Select Trips

5 months ago By Matthew Meier

Explorer Ventures is offering 30-50%off select liveaboard dive trips in Turks & Caicos and Palau. This limited-time offer is only available for 48 hours—July 15–16, 2025—with spots expected to go fast. 

When to book: 

On Tuesday, July 15 at 8:00 AM EDT, Explorer Ventures will begin accepting bookings. Specials are first come, first served, and all trips must be paid in full by the end of the same calendar day to confirm the reservation. 

How to book: 

Release of egg/sperm bundles from the table coral Acropora hyacintus at Palau

Corals' Survival Hinges on Proximity to One Another

11 months ago By Catherine GS Lim

In a new study, researchers have discovered that corals need to be within a few metres apart to successfully reproduce. 

“In what came as a surprise, we saw that corals needed to be within 10 metres of one another, and preferably closer than that for fertilisation to take place,” Professor Peter Mumby, from The University of Queensland, said.

This proximity requirement is much closer than previously thought.

Dive Palau with Explorer Ventures, a new addition to the Fleet!

3 years ago By Matthew Meier

Set sail in the oasis of Palau, now with Explorer Ventures Fleet! This May, the state-of-the-art Black Pearl Explorer joined the world-renowned liveaboard company, in partnership with Pearl Fleet.

Black Pearl Explorer offers three incredible itineraries, including Palau Classic visiting all the famous dive sites. Plus, two Spawning Special itineraries for divers to see the rare spawning aggregations of bumphead parrot fish and red snappers.

(Unrelated filephoto). A Grumman TBF Avenger is one of the planes that BentProp has located.

University of Delaware help find WW2 plane wrecks

10 years ago By Chief minion

During bloody battles in 1944 between American and Japanese almost two dozen aircraft had fallen into waters around Palau, leaving around 70 airmen missing in action.

The Japanese wanted to use the islands for battle preparation and refuelling grounds — and so did the Allies. Numerous aircraft were lost in the waters of Palau, submerged for decades with little closure for the families of fallen airmen.

Palau: A Diver’s Addiction

Words
Todd Essick
Images
Todd Essick
Download the full article as pdf ⬇︎

Palau—prior to a few years ago—was just a name that meant a distant dive destination on my list of places to go. I had seen the periodical article written with its crystal blue water emerald green rock islands and sea life and coral combinations like no other place diving. A dive site called Blue Corner, sounded like fantasy land, almost as if it were thought up by Walt Disney himself, if he were a diver.

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