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Ocean Hunter was conceived by owner and naval architect Navot Bornovski and by the father of Palauan diving, Francis Toribiong, who first brought diving to Palau and discovered most of the now world-famous dive sites visited by the Ocean Hunter. The Ocean Hunter's 60 foot hull, built in Holland in 1979, was shipped to Spencer's Ship Yard in West Palm Beach (the Rolls Royce of ship yards) where the vessel was completed to the highest standards, bought by Navot and Tova Bornovski in 1993, and crafted under the expert supervision of Navot and Avi Klapfer, owner of acclaimed liveaboard fleet the Undersea Hunter. Ever since 1993 the Ocean Hunter has been family-run by the Bornovskis in Palau, and has hosted such activities from Discovery Channel productions to National Geographic assignments by photographer David Doubilet.