Dive Alaska
September 1 - September 11 2012

COME EXPLORE, SHARE, AND DISCOVER....

Ecotourism is responsible travel to natural areas while preserving the environment and improving the well-being of local people. Alaska is the prime year round destination for visitors seeking a more personal connection with nature, culture and wilderness. Ecotourism means you leave little or no impact during your visit so that future visitors can enjoy the same beauty and quality experience of Alaska's special places.

Aboard Nautilus Swell

Imagine just 12 guests onboard. Beautiful quiet, serene mornings relaxing on the covered back deck in a wicker couch with a cup of coffee in your hand.

Package includes:

All snacks, meals, and all non-alcoholic beverages (soda, juice, milk, water), 2 dives a day (conditions permitting, sometimes more dives per day), diving, aluminum 80 tanks, and weight belts, use of sea kayaks, all shore excursions, in-water divemastering and guiding with local experts, daily housekeeping service and nightly turndown service, bathrobe and towels.

Package does not include:

Airfare to Sitka, return airfare from Juneau, $65US port fees, liquor, gratuities, equipment rental.

Cost:

2 superior double occupancy suites (with double beds) – USD$4439pp
2 single occupancy staterooms – USD$4439pp
2 double occupancy staterooms – USD$3819pp

Deposit requirements: $1000US required upon booking. Balance
due June 15, 2012.

Cancellation policy: No refunds will be issued. Be sure to have cancellation insurance.

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A Little About Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States in land area at 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km2), over twice the size of Texas, the next largest state. Alaska is larger than all but 18 sovereign countries. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait. Approximately half of Alaska's 710,231 residents (as per the 2010 United States Census) live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. It is the least densely populated state of the U.S.

Alaska was purchased from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for $7.2 million ($113 million in today's dollars) at about two cents per acre ($4.74/km²). The land went through several administrative changes before becoming an organized (or incorporated) territory on May 11, 1912, and the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.

The name "Alaska" (Аляска) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning "the mainland" or more literally, "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed". It is also known as Alyeska, the "great land", an Aleut word derived from the same root. Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other U.S. states combined. With the extension of the Aleutian Islands into the eastern hemisphere, it is technically both the westernmost and easternmost state in the United States, as well as also being the northernmost.