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 and Surin Islands (Thailand)
Similan Islands: A cluster of nine islands about fifty five nautical miles north west of Phuket, is Thailand’s 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.
Mergui Islands (Burma/Myanmar)
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 archipelago’s virtual isolation, the islands and surrounding seas are alive with an amazing diversity of wildlife –great for sharks, flora and fauna.
Andaman Islands, India
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.
Sangihe Archipelago, North Sulawesi (Indonesia)
Off the north east peninsular of Sulawesi Indonesia lies a chain of volcanic islands called the Sangihe-Talaud Archipelago, an area comprising approximately forty volcanic islands covered in coconut plantations, some of which are over fifteen hundred meters high. The waters surrounding these islands are some of deepest in the world – amazingly good visibility. Ranks amongst the best diving in the world.
The Raja Ampat – Irian Jaya (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”
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!
For 2002 we will be using the knowledge and experience that we have gained on our two prior dive expeditions, as a bench mark for an exciting schedule of nine day / ten night cruises in the Raja Ampat. We have already found fantastic dive sites to help us with our 2002 itinerary, but we believe there to be more than one thousand possible good dive sites, the majority of which are still out there waiting to be discovered.
‘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’