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FeBrina

FeBrina Itinerary

New Hanover and Fathers Reefs (HKN - KVG) 11N

12 days / 11 nights

About FeBrina

  • Experienced liveaboard ideal for serious divers and photographers
  • Enjoy up to five dives a day, including night dives
  • Stress-free diving with a well-designed dive deck and duckboard
  • Itineraries carefully-designed around the seasons and weather

FeBrina liveaboard is a seaworthy, stable vessel providing scuba diving itineraries in Papua New Guinea to serious divers and photographers. This modernised, monohull vessel has been exploring these waters for decades and offers a range of itineraries throughout the year – all carefully-devised to compliment their respective season. Trips explore the country’s most iconic dive spots, including Kimbe Bay and Milne Bay among many others, allowing passionate and dedicated divers to get the full PNG experience.

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Itinerary details

Length of trip 12 days / 11 nights
Number of dives 38
Experience Advanced Open Water - Minimum 30 dives
Insurance Required

Highlights

  • One-way itinerary linking New Hanover and the Fathers Reefs
  • Dive remnants of WWII planes and a fishing boat wreck
  • Coral gardens, bommies, and wall dives in the passages
  • Large schools of barracuda, bigeye trevally, and tuna
  • Enjoy drift diving with large schools of fish, rays, and sharks
  • Explore the volcanic Fathers Reefs and Lolobau Island
  • Schooling snapper, jacks, and surgeonfish
Day 1:
Embarkation from 16:00. Vessel departs from Walindi Plantation Resort or Kavieng (depending on Itinerary) at approx 18:00.

Days 2-10:
3 to 5 dives per day, typically scheduled as follows:

- Light Breakfast, briefing, Dive 1
- Full Breakfast, relax/interval, briefing, Dive 2
- Morning Tea, relax/interval, briefing, Dive 3
- Lunch, relax/interval, briefing, Dive 4
- Afternoon snack, briefing, evening Dive 5 (where possible on evenings where boat is not steaming)
- Dinner

Note: For this itinerary there is more steaming than usual, which will result in a couple of days being shortened to 3 dives only.

Day 11:
2 morning dives only, lunch, vessel steams to port.

Day 12:
Disembarkation up until 09:00 (to suit outward flights where applicable).

Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics and local regulations.

Transfer details

Departure

06:00pm

Kimbe Bay

Hoskins Airport: HKN

Return

09:00am

Kavieng

Kavieng Airport: KVG

Current availability and prices: https://www.zubludiving.com/itineraries/febrina/itn-2505160824511-new-hanover-and-fathers-reefs-hkn-kvg-11n