Researching your dive trip ahead of time allows you to plan a trip that fulfills your group’s travel goals. Maduro Dive is a wholesale dive travel company that can create custom packages for your trips. Here are some key tips for planning your next dive trips:
Find Appropriate Accommodations
When planning your dive trips, you have the opportunity to choose between a dive resort and a liveaboard. Dive resorts provide more amenities for divers and vacationers. You can select a resort based on the number of people who are coming on the trip and their preferred style of accommodation. Volivoli Beach Resort in Fiji provides oceanfront villas, and Blackbird Caye Resort in Belize offers wooden cabanas for guests. Some of the resorts we partner with offer all-inclusive packages, so you don’t have to handle planning for food or entertainment.
Liveaboards let you stay on larger boats that travel to different dive sites. They offering more dive time on dive sites not accessible to day boats. Standard, deluxe, and state rooms are available. The Mike Ball Dive Expeditions boat, the MV Spoilsport, provides 14 cabins for 28 travelers. Our liveaboard packages can include a multitude of different itineraries, voyage durations and access to migratory pelagic species.
Research Ocean Conditions
Researching ocean conditions and weather helps you choose your destination and what time of year to travel there. In many destinations like Indonesia and the Philippines many reefs provide little to no currents, making them easier for newer divers to navigate. Belize also provides water visibility of over 100 feet; this offers underwater photography opportunities and makes it easier to see marine life.
Some destinations may have a monsoon season, and stormy conditions impact whether a dive site is accessible and the number of dives you are able to complete. Access to North Horn, a dive site on Osprey Reef, relies on the weather. Liveaboards offer different itineraries and travel periods, and our team can help you plan your trip in the appropriate season to see specific dive sites.
Look for Diving Activities
Knowing and satisfying the preferences of all divers makes for a successful trip . The type of diving in a destination varies according to the type of local dive sites, current flow and underground formations. Diving options include:
- Shore diving
- Wreck diving
- Drift diving
- Reef diving
- Wall diving
Our dive travel specialists include experienced divers who can help plan dive trips that accommodate different levels of experience. Dive resorts also offer specialty dive classes to learn more advanced techniques, photography instruction and provide certification opportunities for beginners.
Check Marine Life Patterns
Factor in seasonality for specific marine life encounters. Some marine species have an annual migration pattern or breeding season. Dwarf minke whales can be seen in Osprey Reef in Australia between June and August. Our website provides information on what type of marine life you are able to encounter at different marine resorts and liveaboards, such as sharks.
Plan One-of-a-Kind Dive Trips
Performing research ahead of time allows you to plan your dive trip according to your group’s preferences and can prevent missing opportunities to see specific marine life or dive sites. Maduro Dive offers details on the different amenities that are available at our partnered resorts and liveaboards as well as competitive airfare to all dive destinations To plan your dive trips, we invite you to contact us today.
