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42m, 24-guest Blue Force Fleet liveaboard with 12 cabins including junior and master suites, running the operator's Spanish-and-English Maldives programme: the year-round Central Atolls loop, the Baa manta season, and Deep South seven-atoll crossings.
42m, 26-guest Blue Force Fleet liveaboard launched in 2018, running Spanish-and-English Maldives weeks: the year-round Central Atolls loop, the Baa manta season around Hanifaru Bay, and Deep South seven-atoll crossings to the far southern hemisphere.
35-metre, 20-guest liveaboard - the original hull of Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives, refitted in 2022, running the fleet's shared catalogue from central manta and reef weeks to the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season and seasonal southern shark charters, out of Male.
43-metre flagship of the Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives fleet - 12 cabins and 22 guests across three decks, with a dedicated camera room - running the shared Maldives catalogue from Male, from central Best-of and Ari weeks to the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season and seasonal southern shark charters.
38-metre, 20-guest sister in the Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives fleet, with a jacuzzi and a broad 10-metre beam, running the same shared catalogue - central Best-of and Ari weeks, the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season, and seasonal southern shark charters - from Male.
36m, 11-cabin, 22-guest wooden liveaboard (2010) running Luxury Yacht Maldives' full atoll catalogue - North to Lhaviyani, Baa & Hanifaru, central Best-5 to Laamu, and northeast-season Extreme South weeks - with free nitrox and rebreather support.
A comfortable 35-metre wooden liveaboard for up to 24 divers in 12 cabins, with a main-deck jacuzzi and bar, running Emperor's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
Emperor's 40-metre Maldives flagship, a 13-cabin, 26-guest fiberglass liveaboard running the year-round Best of Maldives week from Male plus the fleet's seasonal shark, northern-manta and Deep South charters.
The fleet's most intimate hull: a 35-metre wooden liveaboard for up to 18 divers in 9 cabins, with ocean-view upper-deck cabins, running Emperor's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
Emperor's value-focused 30-metre wooden liveaboard, 10 cabins for up to 20 divers, built around the diving and running the fleet's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
10-cabin, 22-guest Maldivian-built wooden liveaboard running Honors Holidays' central Best of Maldives and Hanifaru-and-Ari weeks plus seasonal Deep South Huvadhoo-Addu equatorial safaris, diving from a dedicated 60-foot dhoni.
Spacious 24-guest wooden liveaboard run by an Austrian-German operator, working Ari-and-South central weeks year-round, a seasonal northern route with a Hanifaru Bay manta snorkel, and one-way Deep South crossings to Gan that take in Fuvahmulah's tiger sharks.
PADI Five-Star dive centre at Dusit Thani Maldives on Mudhdhoo Island, Baa Atoll's UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, 12 minutes by boat from Hanifaru Bay.
34m, 8-cabin, 16-guest liveaboard led by Spanish divers in the Maldives since 1998, running year-round Central, northeast-season Deep South and summer Northern routes with enriched air and full English and Spanish service.
Identical 2014 sister to Scubaspa Yin - the same 50m luxury spa liveaboard, PADI 5-Star diving off a dedicated dhoni, running the same Best of Maldives, Far North manta and Deep South shark catalogue.
50m luxury spa liveaboard - the original Scubaspa (2013) - pairing PADI 5-Star diving from a dedicated dhoni with an onboard spa, across the Maldives' central atolls, Far North manta season and Deep South shark channels.
42m, 24-guest Blue Force Fleet liveaboard with 12 cabins including junior and master suites, running the operator's Spanish-and-English Maldives programme: the year-round Central Atolls loop, the Baa manta season, and Deep South seven-atoll crossings.
42m, 26-guest Blue Force Fleet liveaboard launched in 2018, running Spanish-and-English Maldives weeks: the year-round Central Atolls loop, the Baa manta season around Hanifaru Bay, and Deep South seven-atoll crossings to the far southern hemisphere.
36m, 11-cabin, 22-guest wooden liveaboard (2010) running Luxury Yacht Maldives' full atoll catalogue - North to Lhaviyani, Baa & Hanifaru, central Best-5 to Laamu, and northeast-season Extreme South weeks - with free nitrox and rebreather support.
A comfortable 35-metre wooden liveaboard for up to 24 divers in 12 cabins, with a main-deck jacuzzi and bar, running Emperor's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
Emperor's 40-metre Maldives flagship, a 13-cabin, 26-guest fiberglass liveaboard running the year-round Best of Maldives week from Male plus the fleet's seasonal shark, northern-manta and Deep South charters.
The fleet's most intimate hull: a 35-metre wooden liveaboard for up to 18 divers in 9 cabins, with ocean-view upper-deck cabins, running Emperor's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
Emperor's value-focused 30-metre wooden liveaboard, 10 cabins for up to 20 divers, built around the diving and running the fleet's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
10-cabin, 22-guest Maldivian-built wooden liveaboard running Honors Holidays' central Best of Maldives and Hanifaru-and-Ari weeks plus seasonal Deep South Huvadhoo-Addu equatorial safaris, diving from a dedicated 60-foot dhoni.
22-guest, 11-cabin steel liveaboard running Aggressor's central-atoll 'Best of the Maldives' weeks round-trip from Male, diving from a dedicated dhoni, with 10-night extensions north into Lhaviyani and south into Meemu.
Spacious 24-guest wooden liveaboard run by an Austrian-German operator, working Ari-and-South central weeks year-round, a seasonal northern route with a Hanifaru Bay manta snorkel, and one-way Deep South crossings to Gan that take in Fuvahmulah's tiger sharks.
Identical 2014 sister to Scubaspa Yin - the same 50m luxury spa liveaboard, PADI 5-Star diving off a dedicated dhoni, running the same Best of Maldives, Far North manta and Deep South shark catalogue.
50m luxury spa liveaboard - the original Scubaspa (2013) - pairing PADI 5-Star diving from a dedicated dhoni with an onboard spa, across the Maldives' central atolls, Far North manta season and Deep South shark channels.
35-metre, 20-guest liveaboard - the original hull of Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives, refitted in 2022, running the fleet's shared catalogue from central manta and reef weeks to the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season and seasonal southern shark charters, out of Male.
43-metre flagship of the Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives fleet - 12 cabins and 22 guests across three decks, with a dedicated camera room - running the shared Maldives catalogue from Male, from central Best-of and Ari weeks to the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season and seasonal southern shark charters.
38-metre, 20-guest sister in the Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives fleet, with a jacuzzi and a broad 10-metre beam, running the same shared catalogue - central Best-of and Ari weeks, the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season, and seasonal southern shark charters - from Male.
36m, 11-cabin, 22-guest wooden liveaboard (2010) running Luxury Yacht Maldives' full atoll catalogue - North to Lhaviyani, Baa & Hanifaru, central Best-5 to Laamu, and northeast-season Extreme South weeks - with free nitrox and rebreather support.
A comfortable 35-metre wooden liveaboard for up to 24 divers in 12 cabins, with a main-deck jacuzzi and bar, running Emperor's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
Emperor's 40-metre Maldives flagship, a 13-cabin, 26-guest fiberglass liveaboard running the year-round Best of Maldives week from Male plus the fleet's seasonal shark, northern-manta and Deep South charters.
The fleet's most intimate hull: a 35-metre wooden liveaboard for up to 18 divers in 9 cabins, with ocean-view upper-deck cabins, running Emperor's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
Emperor's value-focused 30-metre wooden liveaboard, 10 cabins for up to 20 divers, built around the diving and running the fleet's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
The only PADI 5-Star Dive Centre on the local island of Fulidhoo, Vaavu Atoll, running boat-based channel and night diving including the well-known Alimatha nurse-shark dive.
10-cabin, 22-guest Maldivian-built wooden liveaboard running Honors Holidays' central Best of Maldives and Hanifaru-and-Ari weeks plus seasonal Deep South Huvadhoo-Addu equatorial safaris, diving from a dedicated 60-foot dhoni.
22-guest, 11-cabin steel liveaboard running Aggressor's central-atoll 'Best of the Maldives' weeks round-trip from Male, diving from a dedicated dhoni, with 10-night extensions north into Lhaviyani and south into Meemu.
The Nakai Diving Center at NAKAI Alimatha Resort in Vaavu Atoll, diving continuously since 1975, known for a house reef with resident nurse sharks and Felidhoo Atoll channel dives including Fotteyo Kandu.
The Nakai Diving Center at NAKAI Dhiggiri Resort in Vaavu Atoll, offering near-resort reef-shark snorkelling at Shark Point alongside Felidhoo Atoll channel dives including Fotteyo Kandu.
Spacious 24-guest wooden liveaboard run by an Austrian-German operator, working Ari-and-South central weeks year-round, a seasonal northern route with a Hanifaru Bay manta snorkel, and one-way Deep South crossings to Gan that take in Fuvahmulah's tiger sharks.
Identical 2014 sister to Scubaspa Yin - the same 50m luxury spa liveaboard, PADI 5-Star diving off a dedicated dhoni, running the same Best of Maldives, Far North manta and Deep South shark catalogue.
50m luxury spa liveaboard - the original Scubaspa (2013) - pairing PADI 5-Star diving from a dedicated dhoni with an onboard spa, across the Maldives' central atolls, Far North manta season and Deep South shark channels.
20-guest, 10-cabin DUNE liveaboard running central-atoll 'Best of Maldives' weeks plus 10-night Central & South and Deep South 'To the Equator' crossings from Male, with free nitrox and a spacious 16.5m dive dhoni.
35-metre, 20-guest liveaboard - the original hull of Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives, refitted in 2022, running the fleet's shared catalogue from central manta and reef weeks to the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season and seasonal southern shark charters, out of Male.
43-metre flagship of the Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives fleet - 12 cabins and 22 guests across three decks, with a dedicated camera room - running the shared Maldives catalogue from Male, from central Best-of and Ari weeks to the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season and seasonal southern shark charters.
38-metre, 20-guest sister in the Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives fleet, with a jacuzzi and a broad 10-metre beam, running the same shared catalogue - central Best-of and Ari weeks, the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season, and seasonal southern shark charters - from Male.
The in-house PADI 5-Star dive centre at Six Senses Laamu, the only resort dive operator in Laamu Atoll, hosting the Maldives Underwater Initiative's manta research programme at the atoll's signature cleaning station.
36m, 11-cabin, 22-guest wooden liveaboard (2010) running Luxury Yacht Maldives' full atoll catalogue - North to Lhaviyani, Baa & Hanifaru, central Best-5 to Laamu, and northeast-season Extreme South weeks - with free nitrox and rebreather support.
35-metre, 20-guest liveaboard - the original hull of Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives, refitted in 2022, running the fleet's shared catalogue from central manta and reef weeks to the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season and seasonal southern shark charters, out of Male.
43-metre flagship of the Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives fleet - 12 cabins and 22 guests across three decks, with a dedicated camera room - running the shared Maldives catalogue from Male, from central Best-of and Ari weeks to the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season and seasonal southern shark charters.
38-metre, 20-guest sister in the Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives fleet, with a jacuzzi and a broad 10-metre beam, running the same shared catalogue - central Best-of and Ari weeks, the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season, and seasonal southern shark charters - from Male.
36m, 11-cabin, 22-guest wooden liveaboard (2010) running Luxury Yacht Maldives' full atoll catalogue - North to Lhaviyani, Baa & Hanifaru, central Best-5 to Laamu, and northeast-season Extreme South weeks - with free nitrox and rebreather support.
A comfortable 35-metre wooden liveaboard for up to 24 divers in 12 cabins, with a main-deck jacuzzi and bar, running Emperor's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
Emperor's 40-metre Maldives flagship, a 13-cabin, 26-guest fiberglass liveaboard running the year-round Best of Maldives week from Male plus the fleet's seasonal shark, northern-manta and Deep South charters.
The fleet's most intimate hull: a 35-metre wooden liveaboard for up to 18 divers in 9 cabins, with ocean-view upper-deck cabins, running Emperor's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
Emperor's value-focused 30-metre wooden liveaboard, 10 cabins for up to 20 divers, built around the diving and running the fleet's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
10-cabin, 22-guest Maldivian-built wooden liveaboard running Honors Holidays' central Best of Maldives and Hanifaru-and-Ari weeks plus seasonal Deep South Huvadhoo-Addu equatorial safaris, diving from a dedicated 60-foot dhoni.
35-metre, 20-guest liveaboard - the original hull of Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives, refitted in 2022, running the fleet's shared catalogue from central manta and reef weeks to the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season and seasonal southern shark charters, out of Male.
43-metre flagship of the Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives fleet - 12 cabins and 22 guests across three decks, with a dedicated camera room - running the shared Maldives catalogue from Male, from central Best-of and Ari weeks to the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season and seasonal southern shark charters.
38-metre, 20-guest sister in the Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives fleet, with a jacuzzi and a broad 10-metre beam, running the same shared catalogue - central Best-of and Ari weeks, the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season, and seasonal southern shark charters - from Male.
36m, 11-cabin, 22-guest wooden liveaboard (2010) running Luxury Yacht Maldives' full atoll catalogue - North to Lhaviyani, Baa & Hanifaru, central Best-5 to Laamu, and northeast-season Extreme South weeks - with free nitrox and rebreather support.
A comfortable 35-metre wooden liveaboard for up to 24 divers in 12 cabins, with a main-deck jacuzzi and bar, running Emperor's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
Emperor's 40-metre Maldives flagship, a 13-cabin, 26-guest fiberglass liveaboard running the year-round Best of Maldives week from Male plus the fleet's seasonal shark, northern-manta and Deep South charters.
The fleet's most intimate hull: a 35-metre wooden liveaboard for up to 18 divers in 9 cabins, with ocean-view upper-deck cabins, running Emperor's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
Emperor's value-focused 30-metre wooden liveaboard, 10 cabins for up to 20 divers, built around the diving and running the fleet's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
Euro-Divers' 5-star PADI centre at Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa in South Ari Atoll, built around a 900m house reef with 10 entry points and full-day access to year-round whale sharks and seasonal manta cleaning stations.
Dhangethi-based dive operator, established 2021, running South Ari Atoll boat dives sold as bundled guesthouse-stay-and-dive packages.
10-cabin, 22-guest Maldivian-built wooden liveaboard running Honors Holidays' central Best of Maldives and Hanifaru-and-Ari weeks plus seasonal Deep South Huvadhoo-Addu equatorial safaris, diving from a dedicated 60-foot dhoni.
PADI dive operator on Dhigurah, South Ari Atoll, running boat dives to 40+ sites within an hour, including the manta cleaning station at Rangali Madivaru.
22-guest, 11-cabin steel liveaboard running Aggressor's central-atoll 'Best of the Maldives' weeks round-trip from Male, diving from a dedicated dhoni, with 10-night extensions north into Lhaviyani and south into Meemu.
Spacious 24-guest wooden liveaboard run by an Austrian-German operator, working Ari-and-South central weeks year-round, a seasonal northern route with a Hanifaru Bay manta snorkel, and one-way Deep South crossings to Gan that take in Fuvahmulah's tiger sharks.
PADI-registered dive school on Dhigurah, South Ari Atoll, running boat dives to a 44-entry site catalogue with a whale shark and manta focus.
Prodivers' PADI centre at Lily Beach Resort & Spa on Huvahendhoo, the group's only South Ari Atoll base, positioned for year-round whale-shark search trips and seasonal manta encounters among the atoll's headline sites.
Identical 2014 sister to Scubaspa Yin - the same 50m luxury spa liveaboard, PADI 5-Star diving off a dedicated dhoni, running the same Best of Maldives, Far North manta and Deep South shark catalogue.
50m luxury spa liveaboard - the original Scubaspa (2013) - pairing PADI 5-Star diving from a dedicated dhoni with an onboard spa, across the Maldives' central atolls, Far North manta season and Deep South shark channels.
The sole dive base on Maamigili, South Ari Atoll, a PADI 5-Star guesthouse-and-dive operation marketed on year-round whale shark and manta channel access.
PADI 5-Star dive centre on Dhangethi, South Ari Atoll, running boat dives from its own 50ft dhoni to the atoll's whale shark and manta channel since 2016.
35-metre, 20-guest liveaboard - the original hull of Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives, refitted in 2022, running the fleet's shared catalogue from central manta and reef weeks to the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season and seasonal southern shark charters, out of Male.
43-metre flagship of the Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives fleet - 12 cabins and 22 guests across three decks, with a dedicated camera room - running the shared Maldives catalogue from Male, from central Best-of and Ari weeks to the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season and seasonal southern shark charters.
38-metre, 20-guest sister in the Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives fleet, with a jacuzzi and a broad 10-metre beam, running the same shared catalogue - central Best-of and Ari weeks, the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season, and seasonal southern shark charters - from Male.
Werner Lau's SSI/PADI dive centre at Medhufushi Island Resort, Meemu Atoll's only strong resort-based dive operation, known for shark- and manta-rich channel diving.
35-metre, 20-guest liveaboard - the original hull of Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives, refitted in 2022, running the fleet's shared catalogue from central manta and reef weeks to the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season and seasonal southern shark charters, out of Male.
43-metre flagship of the Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives fleet - 12 cabins and 22 guests across three decks, with a dedicated camera room - running the shared Maldives catalogue from Male, from central Best-of and Ari weeks to the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season and seasonal southern shark charters.
38-metre, 20-guest sister in the Carpe Diem Cruises Maldives fleet, with a jacuzzi and a broad 10-metre beam, running the same shared catalogue - central Best-of and Ari weeks, the Baa Hanifaru snorkel season, and seasonal southern shark charters - from Male.
36m, 11-cabin, 22-guest wooden liveaboard (2010) running Luxury Yacht Maldives' full atoll catalogue - North to Lhaviyani, Baa & Hanifaru, central Best-5 to Laamu, and northeast-season Extreme South weeks - with free nitrox and rebreather support.
A comfortable 35-metre wooden liveaboard for up to 24 divers in 12 cabins, with a main-deck jacuzzi and bar, running Emperor's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
Emperor's 40-metre Maldives flagship, a 13-cabin, 26-guest fiberglass liveaboard running the year-round Best of Maldives week from Male plus the fleet's seasonal shark, northern-manta and Deep South charters.
The fleet's most intimate hull: a 35-metre wooden liveaboard for up to 18 divers in 9 cabins, with ocean-view upper-deck cabins, running Emperor's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
Emperor's value-focused 30-metre wooden liveaboard, 10 cabins for up to 20 divers, built around the diving and running the fleet's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
10-cabin, 22-guest Maldivian-built wooden liveaboard running Honors Holidays' central Best of Maldives and Hanifaru-and-Ari weeks plus seasonal Deep South Huvadhoo-Addu equatorial safaris, diving from a dedicated 60-foot dhoni.
22-guest, 11-cabin steel liveaboard running Aggressor's central-atoll 'Best of the Maldives' weeks round-trip from Male, diving from a dedicated dhoni, with 10-night extensions north into Lhaviyani and south into Meemu.
Spacious 24-guest wooden liveaboard run by an Austrian-German operator, working Ari-and-South central weeks year-round, a seasonal northern route with a Hanifaru Bay manta snorkel, and one-way Deep South crossings to Gan that take in Fuvahmulah's tiger sharks.
German-run Werner Lau SSI centre at Bathala Island Resort in North Ari Atoll, a small, long-established divers' island with a highly rated house reef near the outer reef and North Ari's marquee thilas a short dhoni ride away.
Deep Blue Divers, the PADI dive operator at Six Senses Kanuhura in Lhaviyani Atoll, running scheduled boat trips to atoll channels and reefs with free nitrox, DPV scooter dives and UV fluoro night diving.
36m, 11-cabin, 22-guest wooden liveaboard (2010) running Luxury Yacht Maldives' full atoll catalogue - North to Lhaviyani, Baa & Hanifaru, central Best-5 to Laamu, and northeast-season Extreme South weeks - with free nitrox and rebreather support.
A comfortable 35-metre wooden liveaboard for up to 24 divers in 12 cabins, with a main-deck jacuzzi and bar, running Emperor's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
Emperor's 40-metre Maldives flagship, a 13-cabin, 26-guest fiberglass liveaboard running the year-round Best of Maldives week from Male plus the fleet's seasonal shark, northern-manta and Deep South charters.
The fleet's most intimate hull: a 35-metre wooden liveaboard for up to 18 divers in 9 cabins, with ocean-view upper-deck cabins, running Emperor's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
Emperor's value-focused 30-metre wooden liveaboard, 10 cabins for up to 20 divers, built around the diving and running the fleet's shared Maldives catalog from Male.
Prodivers' third dive centre in Lhaviyani Atoll, based at Hurawalhi Island Resort, offering personalised small-group and one-on-one diving with free nitrox across the shared Prodivers Lhaviyani site catalogue.
Prodivers' second Maldives dive centre, at Komandoo Island Resort & Spa in Lhaviyani Atoll, with free nitrox, a snorkel-grade house reef and the Kuredu Express wreck reachable by dhoni.
Prodivers' founding PADI 5-Star Instructor Development Centre at Kuredu Island Resort & Spa in Lhaviyani Atoll, est. 1988, with free nitrox and the Kuredu Express wreck sitting directly on the house reef.
PADI 5-Star Dive Center at Ayada Maldives on Maguhdhuvaa island, running house-reef and dhoni diving in the remote, low-traffic Gaafu Dhaalu (Huvadhoo) Atoll.
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