Performing research for your dive trips allows you to put together an itinerary that meets your dive goals. Maduro Dive is a wholesale dive travel company, and we partner with different diver-focused resorts and liveaboards in 79 international locations on 40 countries. Here are several tips for making the most out of your dive trips:
Receive Advanced Training or Certification
For active divers, receiving advanced diver training before or during your dive trips helps prepare you for a greater range of diving experiences. These include not only normal reef, wreck, and wall diving but being able to handle any type of diving conditions that you encounter. Receiving this training allows you to safely explore more challenging dive sites in your destination, and it provides more diving options.
Almost all dive resorts offer on-site training centers and some even have a pool for dedicated training. Dive instructors can provide a wide range of training from an introduction to scuba diving, full certifications and more advanced specialty instruction. Lembeh Resort in North Sulawesi, Indonesia provides introductory to professional advanced photography courses and seminars. This helps prepare you for capturing underwater images of the colorful corals and small critters that you will encounter while muck diving.
Practicing with your dive equipment ahead of time allows you to be prepared for faster currents that require more weight. You can also take dive equipment classes during your trip; this helps you learn how to use gear more effectively. Our MV Mike Spoilsport liveaboard package includes a dive computer workshop. Dive masters on your liveaboards are able to provide additional safety instructions and check your dive equipment.
Research Marine Life Encounters
Determining what marine life you are interested in encountering or photographing ahead of time allows you to choose an ideal itinerary. Staying at Manta Ray Bay Resort in Micronesia allows you to watch large manta rays at the Mi’l Channel and Goofnuw Channel cleaning stations. Nearby dive sites also include the Vertigo; at this destination, you can see gray reef and white-tip sharks.
Depending on the itinerary, divers on the Mike Ball Dive Expeditions liveaboard in Australia are able to travel to green turtle rookeries or Cod Hole. This allows you to watch experienced divers feed potato cod; you can also view shark feeds at the North Horn site. A stay on the Belize Aggressor IV liveaboard provides opportunities to photograph the rare white-spotted toadfish. Our dive travel specialists at Maduro Dive can help you choose a liveaboard in the appropriate season to see specific marine life.
Find Unique Dive Sites
To create distinctive dive experiences, look for unique dive sites near your destination. Dominica’s volcanic characteristics offer deep underwater canyon explorations, and they cause the phenomenon at Champagne Reef: continuous sulfuric bubbles coming from the sand and rocks. Dive boats at the Blackbird Caye Resort in Belize travel to the Great Blue Hole, a 400-foot sinkhole with 20-foot-long stalactites and stalagmites. We offer customized and premade dive travel packages that can include specialty dives for that destination.
Book Your Dive Trips
Trying new dive styles on your trips allows you to gain more diving experience. We help you find or create special packages with accommodations at a resort or liveaboard that fit your number of guests, amenity requirements and dive experience levels. To learn more and book your dive trips with Maduro Dive, we invite you to contact us today.
