Our live-aboard scuba diving holidays
With our many years of experience operating live-aboard scuba
diving vacations amongst the beautiful tropical islands of Thailand, Myanmar (Burma)
and Indonesia, we promise you the best scuba diving available in all of the
destinations that we visit.
We cater for up to eight guests on each trip, whilst offering a professional,
friendly and personalized service. Our Dive-masters are experts in spotting and
identifying all the rare and wonderful creatures that inhabit the waters of Southeast
Asia.
The combination of diving, sailing and relaxing onboard a high quality
sailing yacht, whilst being pampered by a professional crew, is just one of the
reasons that so many people return for a repeat performance.
Please click the yellow destination headings for full information on each dive cruise.
Our Scuba Diving Destinations:
Similan Islands: A
cluster of nine islands about fifty five nautical miles north west of Phuket, is
Thailands premier dive destination. They offer a great diversity of marine life and
undersea terrain. The islands themselves have some of the most stunning above-water
surrounds in Asia, with dazzling turquoise water, white sand beaches and secluded bays
framed by rocky headlands.
The Surin Islands are another
sixty nautical miles further on from the Similan Islands. A group of five islands, with
Richelieu Rock being twelve nautical miles to the east. This whole area offers excellent
diving, with the above and below water characteristics being quite different to the
Similans. Richelieu Rock is famous for whale sharks, being one of the few places in the
world for regular sightings.
Comprising over eight hundred
islands and covering an area of ten thousand square miles, these pristine islands had,
until January 1997, been closed to all foreigners for well over fifty years. This vast
area is incredibly beautiful and totally untouched by modern development, with a rich
history of maritime trade, mysticism and piracy.
The modern-day Mergui Archipelago is as
it was in days gone by, bar the piracy! Due to the archipelagos virtual isolation,
the islands and surrounding seas are alive with an amazing diversity of wildlife
great for sharks, flora and fauna.
The
Andamans’ are a group of picturesque islands, big and small, inhabited
and uninhabited, comprising five hundred and seventy two islands, islets
and rocks, lying in the southeastern part of the Bay of Bengal. They lie
along an arc, in a long and narrow broken chain, running approximately
North-South, stretching nearly eight hundred kilometres. Belonging to
India, but geographically related to Myanmar and Indonesia.
“Coral researchers have revealed the location of what they
think is the most valuable cluster of reefs in the world. It is in a
remote archipelago off Indonesia, close to the coast of Papua
Province, in the Malacca Sea”
BBC NEWS
15th May 2002.
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The
islands of the Raja Ampat are extremely picturesque and diverse
in their geological make up. Ranging from shear-sided granite islands,
similar in appearance to Palau, to small coral sand cays and islets,
resembling those of the Maldives. The waters of the Raja Ampat are
crystal clear, with a deep blue / azure appearance. If you can imagine
a South Pacific dream location, this is it!
Destination Iran Jaya - the Indonesian province that covers the
western half of the large island of New Guinea, one of the world’s last unknown expanses, especially
underwater. Diving is outstanding, offering diverse coral, stunning fish life, turtles, dugongs, sharks,
rays, whales, all a common sight, not to mention an abundance of ships and aircraft wrecks just now
being discovered.
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‘Scuba
divers take note: The waters of the Raja Ampat Islands off
Indonesia’s province of Irian Jaya may replace heralded Palau
as the most species-rich sea in the world.
An
international team of marine biologists who visited the Raja
Ampat recently to examine the reefs said they found what may be
an unparalleled array of species – corals, fishes, and
mollusks – including some species never seen before’
National Geographic News
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