A liveaboard allows you and your group to live on a yacht while traveling to unique dive locations. Maduro Dive is a wholesale dive travel company that helps travelers book their stays and find exclusive deals. Here are a few of the benefits of choosing liveaboard dive trips for extended diving:
Diver-Focused Accommodations
Yachts and boats for liveaboard dive trips offer stateroom and cabin accommodations, providing you with a comfortable place to stay as you travel on the water. Staterooms and cabins are air conditioned but the former are more spacious and elegany. Our liveaboard packages include en-suite accommodations, gourmet meals, availability of alcoholic beverages, Nitrox for your dives, airfare, transfers and pre/post tours.
Liveaboards also offer specific amenities for divers. They provide a dive deck with a camera table and a charging station. There is also an area to store personal dive equipment. Many liveaboards also provide dive computer, photo and equipment workshops and opportunities to assist with research. Divemasters on the ship can check your equipment for you, offer safety tips, or accompany you on your dives for added safety.
Access to Remote Sites
Traveling to dive sites on a liveaboard means more time directly on the water, offering you more diving opportunities. The Rajat Ampat Aggressor and many others offer seven- to 12-day itinerary with multiple dives each day. Divers on longer itineraries are able to perform 22 to 33 dives on their trip. Liveaboards allow you to travel to remote dive sites for unique experiences. The Mike Ball Dive Expeditions liveaboard travels to Osprey Reef, an atoll on a seamount that has 10 dive sites, including North Hole. At this location, you can watch experienced divers feed sharks. The Philippines Aggressor II travels to Tubbataha Reef, which includes the North and South atolls and the Jessie Beazley reef; this offers the opportunity to visit more isolated coral reefs, go wreck diving and encounter multiple fish and coral species.
Varied Marine Life Encounters
A liveaboard offers you opportunities to encounter a larger variety of marine life. Australia hosts 125 shark species, including hammerheads, nurse sharks, and reef sharks. Travelers on the MV Spoilsport can watch cod being fed at Cod Hole, as well as see red bass, yellow-tailed fusiliers, and sweetlips. Divers traveling on Philippines live aboards, such as Aggressor and Atlantis boats between mid-March and mid-June are able to see thresher sharks and whale sharks. Our website and agents offers details on what marine life you can find on different liveaboards.
You are also able to encounter rarer species. The Belize Aggressor IV travels to Turneffe Atoll, where divers are able to find the white-spotted toadfish. Diving from the Rajat Ampat Aggressor provides you with opportunities to see Epaulette sharks walking on the seabed. Divers are also able to encounter whales, frogfish, pygmy seahorses, and sea dragons while diving in Indonesia.
Plan Your Liveaboard Dive Trips
Liveaboards allow opportunities for wall dives, drift dives, and underwater photography. Experienced divers at Maduro Dive are able to help you plan your trips in the appropriate seasons for greater water visibility and migratory fish species at preferred dive sites. To plan your liveaboard dive trips, complete our online form today.
