South Sea Cruises welcomed its latest addition Panther to its fleet yesterday.

CEO Brad Rutherford says they invested $6m Fijian dollars into the new vessel which will be servicing the Mamanuca’s from today.

He says the demand for transporting not only tourists to the islands was the main reason for getting another vessel.

_“She’s surveyed for 240 but we won’t be taking that many in one particular trip but we have that ability which is nice so on any one day she will head out to the Mamanuca’s perhaps to the Yasawa’s depending on the day and that’s the top end of the capacity that she will carry."

In total the South Seas Cruises have 7 vessels that service the Mamanuca’s.