The Blue Cave Tour from Split

Fisherman first, and still one every winter once the last guests have flown home. If you want to know why the dentex sit off one headland and not the next, or which cove is empty at eleven in the morning in August, Tino is the reason this website can tell you.

He has also been a long way from here: a full circumnavigation on merchant ships, which is the kind of sea time that makes a 90-minute Adriatic crossing feel like nothing at all. On a rough morning that is exactly who you want at the wheel.

Years on mega yachts, where the standard is set by owners and charter guests who notice everything and forgive nothing. That is where the habits come from: the briefing before you leave, the boat that is already clean when you step on, the day that runs without anybody having to ask.

He brought that back to a twelve-guest speedboat on his own coast, which is the whole idea. The service is the one he was trained to give on a hundred-metre yacht. The setting is the sea he grew up on.