Komodo liveaboard diving

Komodo liveaboard diving is not a new idea but but recently it's being recognised as a premier destination due to the consistantly awesome diving. Crystal clear water and dive sites where you never see another diver provide a little something for everyone whether it's macro or massive you love. One day you can be crawling along the bottom looking at pygmy seahorses, frogfish and unusual nudibranch and the next you are in the big blue on an open water pinnacle as the mantas fly by, the sharks circle and the dolphins hunt and the next day diving a live volcano!! For sheer variety there is no better place on earth.
Komodo is one of the few places left in the world where sharks are not rare and down south is one of the places where manta rays have their legendary aggregations, meaning they are here in the area in their hundreds!!!
Starting your liveaboard from Bali or Komodo you cruise in luxury diving the small islands north of Sumbawa, Gili Banta, Gili Lawalaut, Sangeagn volcano, and of course Komodo experiencing the best of the Lesser Sunda islands.(Komodo photos )

Mermaid runs a weekly Bali to Komodo liveaboard starting and ending on a Saturday and also, new this year, a special explorer 9 day itinerary to find some new sites and expand on the old ones.
(Mermaid Schedules - Mermaid Itinerary - Mermaid prices)
I can personally vouch for the high standards of safety, comfort and diving on these trips as for the last 3 years I have been working on both Mermaid 1 and Mermaid 2 as their photo professional.


Komodo Dancer is also another luxury liveaboard cruising the same waters but in a very different style.
The Komodo Dancer is the traditionally crafted, two masted vessel of the Peter Hughes Diving Dancer Fleet, providing fully inclusive high quality dive trips to the Komodo national park, Alor and Maumere in Indonesia's spectacular Nusa Tenggara area.
Komodo Dancer schedule - Itinerary - prices



One of the highlights of these trips is the rare opportunity to walk with the lengendary Komodo dragons. These truly awesome beasts can reach 3 metres plus and can reportedly run at 20km an hour chasing their prey, something I am not willing to put to the test. It's the icing on the cake, Stunning diving and one of the world's last surviving dinosaur descendants all one amazing package.
This is truly the trip of a lifetime.