2008 DIVE TRAVEL SPECIALS :: CUAN LAWDive in to Cuan Law Specials for 2007 and save $$$ on unique adventure expeditions, summer family specials, instructor courses and Serendipity House, a private villa on Tortula. 2008 AUTUMN CRUISE :: 20% OFF + 10% OFF FOR FULL BOAT CHARTERS!!!Every Cuan Law cruise this autumn except the Adventure Special, Thanksgiving and Christmas will sail at 20% off for individual bookings and another 10% off if you book the entire boat! This means you can enjoy a week aboard Cuan Law for just $1676 per person! Book the boat for your own exclusive trip and your group members will pay only $1509 each! You haven't seen prices like that since, well, back in the last millenium! TORTULA DIVE 'N STAY SPECIALS!Cuan Law owners Duncan and Annie Muirhead are now offering special rates on a beautiful villa with pool that accommodates as many as 10 guests on the island of Tortula. Book the entire villa or sign on for your own self-contained unit. 11-DAY EXPEDITION SPECTACULAR: WRECKS OF ANEGADA, SOMBRERO ISLAND AND THE PINNACLES OF SABA- Autumn Expedition Date: October 23 to November 1, 2008
- Destination: Wrecks of Anegada, Sombrero Island, Saba Pinnacles
- Price: $3150 per person
For adventuresome and experienced divers who want the ultimate in boat-based diving expeditions, Duncan and Annie Muirhead have designed an extended 11-day dive trip that combines the spectacular Wrecks of Anegada (reopened to divers after seven years), the remote and fascinating Sombrero Island (Cuan Law exclusive), and the awe-inspiring Pinnacles of Saba (off limits to all but Cuan Law and one other blue water dive vessel). Here's the complete intinerary! Day 1: Board at 12 noon at Trellis Bay, Beef Island. Cuan Law sets sail right away for the Wreck of the Chikuzen, one of the great dive sites of the BVI seven miles out. A light lunch is served under sail. After the dive, Cuan Law drops anchor in North Sound, Virgin Gorda for the night. Day 2: Early next morning, Cuan Law sails to Anegada Reef for a dive on the Paramatta. This is a 350 foot paddle wheeler that hit the reef on her maiden voyage in 1869. After lunch, it's on to Rocus - "The Bone Wreck" - which went down in 1927 with a cargo of animal bones. After the dive, Cuan Law sets sail for Sombrero Island, 45 miles to the East, arriving in time for a late dinner. Day 3, 4 and 5: Three full days provide ample opportunity to explore remote Sombrero Island. Just one mile long, 400 yards wide and 40 ft high, it's only inhabitants are four very friendly lighthouse keepers who look after the 180 ft tall light house, one of the last manned lighthouses in the world. The island nurtures a mass of birds and is an important sanctuary and breeding ground as well as being an important rest point on the flyways of many migratory birds. It also has some interesting ruins and artifacts from when it was mined for phosphate in the 19th century. There are some graves, a dungeon and a fine stone built powder store. Underwater the clarity and and abundance of marine life is nothing less than astonishing. The limestone cliffs which surround the island go straight down at the North East point 100 ft and at the South 75 ft. They are heavily eroded, undercut and full of color and life. There are limestone pinnacles with their feet in white sand rising towards the surface which are riddled with holes and tunnels. All this makes for very dramatic underwater scenery. On the southwest side "The Cathedral" is a huge cavern with an entrance some 60 ft high and 200 wide. Gazing out into the blue with huge schools of silver barracuda parading across the entrance and strange sculptured shapes hanging down from the top of the cavern is magical. At the end of the third day at Sombrero Island, dinner is served and then Cuan Law sails overnight sixty miles to Saba, the renowned diving mecca of the Eastern Caribbean. Day 6, 7 and 8: The Dutch island of Saba and Anegada Reef are a complete contrast to what has gone before. Saba is a dormant volcano two miles in diameter and nearly three thousand feet high! On it live about a thousand pleasant people and as you ascend it turns from foreboding bare volcanic cliffs to lush, but very steep rain forest. The Sabans have constructed, in this improbable place, three villages which are the prettiest in the Eastern Caribbean, a scary but safe network of hand built roads and an air strip that looks like the deck of an aircraft carrier and is about the same size. For the hiker there is a network of exquisitely constructed trails. Anegada Reef is a small barrier reef some 20 miles long that has been declared a marine protected area. The diving here is spectacular thanks to the marine reserve and the fact that only Cuan Law and one other dive vessel are allowed to bring divers into the area. Around Saba, rising up from unfathomable depths, are a number of remnants from undersea volcanic vents. These are the famous Pinnacles. They are deep, dramatically vertical and festooned in lush coral. Around them are schools of fish and wandering pelagics. And then there are the lovely afternoon and night dives on the fringing reefs. Three full days at Saba provide ample opportunity to dive the reefs and explore the island. After dinner on the eighth day Cuan Law heads downwind on a lovely overnight sail to BVI for the great finale. Day 9: A day at Salt Island diving the renowned Wreck of the Rhone (other dive sites are available for returning guests who have already explored this wreck). Day 10: Morning dives (Ginger Island or Round Rock) are scheduled but after nine days of intense expedition quality diving, some off gassing is prudent before flying out the next day. So the afternoon is set aside for a great beach barbecue at the Baths and doing everything but diving (or nothing at all). A gentle evening sail down to Peter Island brings Cuan Law to its final anchorage for the farewell dinner. Day 11: After breakfast Cuan Law sails across the channel to Tortola for disembarkation. NOTE: As some of the diving is quite advanced, this expedition is recommended for experienced and skilled divers only. 2007 INSTRUCTOR COURSESCuan Law's 2008 IDC/IE builds on the huge success of previous instructor courses. These are limited participation courses with a maximum of ten Instructor candidates and two Staff Instructor candidates. The price, including instruction, is way below the cost of a regular Cuan Law cruise per night and is actually lower than the overall cost of some land based IDC's. Here are the dates of further courses. This time around, you'll get an extra day for a total of 12 nights aboard Cuan Law plus expert instruction by renowned PADI Course Director Babara DeClerque, all for just $3100. Not only is that less than you'd pay for most liveaboard dive trips of that duration, it's also less than many land-based instructor courses that lack the many advantages (and comforts) of training aboard one of the world's premier liveaboards. To ensure that instructor candidates have plenty of time to master all of the course requirements, only 10 students will be accepted into the program. In addition, two Staff Instructor candidates will be accepted for 8 nights with the option to extend to 12. NEW NITROX & DPV (DIVER PROPULSION VEHICLE) PROGRAMS!!!Want to try nitrox? Cuan Law now offers "Introduction to Nitrox" courses and nitrox certification courses. As always, nitrox is available to certified nitrox divers for $10 per tank. If you're a nitrox diver, be sure to ask about package deals! CONTACT CUAN LAW | 
