As always, there's constant change taking place at Sam's Tours in line with our commitment to offering our guests Palau 's very best service!

New Customer Gear Lockers:
Presently under construction is a completely new building that will house our new and improved Customer Gear Locker, Staff Gear Locker, Rental Center and Compressor room. The new Customer Locker will provide well ventilated and secure “wet gear” storage and dry storage space for extra suitcases and gear bags not needed by guests on the dive boats. The project is scheduled for completion in August 2007 and includes landscaping of our grounds and improving our parking facilities.

Bottom Time Bar & Grill:
Our popular waterfront bar and restaurant is also slated for improvements that include additional bar counter space, new sound system and paving of the floor with sandstone flagstones.

New Bauer Compressor:                     
On March 3, 2007 we installed a brand new Bauer K-20 Compressor as the primary source for filling our scuba tanks. Our older Bauer K-20 which has served us extremely well will now serve as a back-up compressor system. Both compressors may be attached to our NRC Nitrox Membrane system giving us the capacity to fill over 350 Nitrox tanks per day. Sam's Tours has provided free Nitrox to all Nitrox certified guests since 2003 and more than half of all guests now dive with Nitrox. Nitrox certification is available every day at Sam's Tours. For more information contact Sam's Tours.

New Boats:     
On March 12, 2007 the latest addition to our fleets of vessels was launched. Christened “Thresher Shark” she joins the rest of our mono-hull fleet named after a variety of sharks that include Whaleshark, Hammerhead, Tiger Shark, White Tip, Silvertip, Great White and Black Tip.  “Thresher” is equipped with Yamaha F150 4-Stroke outboard motors. “Tiger Shark” and “Silvertip” our hardworking 8 passenger dive boats both underwent “surgery” before this season began which include new scuba tank rack system, interior modifications to make them “walk-thru”, improved fixed-mount ladder system, fresh-water rinse shower and new 4-stroke Yamaha motors.

75% of Fleet Equipped with 4-Stroke Motors:             
Continuing our commitment to protecting Palau 's environment and to improving the comfort for our guest, Sam's Tours continues our upgrade program for our outboard motor equipped vessels to more fuel efficient and quieter 4-stroke motors. As of March 2007, over 75% of our outboard equipped fleet now have either Yamaha or Suzuki 4-stroke motors with the majority of them being Yamaha F-150's.  In 2002 Sam's Tours was the first dive center in Palau to deploy 4-stroke motor technology when we launched two new boats with Honda 4-stroke motors.

Our Catamaran Fleet:              
“Sea Cat” Sam's Tours very first “cat” boat re-joined our small boat fleet this month after several years in retirement. Another addition to our “cat” boat fleet is “Reef Cat” a sistership too “SeaCat”.  Our other “cat” boat “Shark Cat” is the the first of our “cat” fleet to be equipped with 4-stroke motors as she proudly sports a new set of Yamaha F115's.