Building the Beauty
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Lookin' good! All her sea trials were perfect so she set sail on her maiden voyage from Perth, Western Australia to Mooloolaba, Queensland.
Isn’t she gorgeous? We love her!
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My relentless pursuit to conserve apex predators, my desire to rescue marine life, together with my passion for adventure and exploration, led me to design Croc One.
For a whole year I looked at, surveyed, and scrutinized boats from all over the world to fully prepare myself to create my ultimate vessel. As a boy I loved Jacques Cousteau’s famous boat Calypso, and this inspired a lot of the design features. I needed a solid hull with two serious cranes to endure the heavy duty croc and shark work I do. I’m always going up small tributaries, across tidal flats, sandbars and rock gorges, so I knew I would have to have twin keels reinforced with stainless steel. This would allow me to run it up onto anything, at any time, with no chance of rolling or hull damage.
I’m right into power, so I went for the biggest and best diesel engines on the market – not one, but two C18 1000 hp Caterpillar Engines, that provide more grunt than a herd of bull elephants. Mate! These engines just purr… and talk about power! Croc One could out-pull the Queen Mary! I absolutely love sitting down in the engine room and listening to those babies hum! She’s a little ripper!
Perhaps her greatest asset is the upper deck. I designed this deck to carry my croc dinghies, jet skis, and helicopter to ensure we’ve got all the vital gear to get the job done.
She has to live in the most remote parts of the world for months on end, so she is equipped with huge freezers, a cold room, storage and luxury accommodation - with four showers, three toilets and the latest and greatest navigational and communications gear.
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