KLM Sea Safari 8
KLM SEA SAFARI 8; HAVE A WHALE OF A TIME SWIMMING WITH REAL WHALES.
KLM Sea Safari 8 is part of Indonesia’s largest luxury liveaboard fleets called Sea Safari Cruises. With all their local knowledge and national pride, they can organize the most intense adventure cruises around West Papua.
Embark on one of their schooners and be sure to have a ‘ whale of a time.’ The ship was built in 2003 and got modernized every year.
With a length of 35 meters and a beam of 10 meters, Sea Safari viii is one of the fleet’s largest boats.
The multi-lingual crew consists of 20 people. Among them are five scuba professionals. Homeport is Sorong, West Papua, and destinations lie in the significant periphery of Raja Ampat.
Accommodation
Sea Safari 8 liveaboard has 12 cabins divided over two decks, with a maximum capacity of 24 guests. Each room has a private bathroom, basin, hot water shower, and air-conditioning.
The middle deck has four double bed cabins with windows and doors giving direct access to the outdoor gangway.
The lower deck has four cabins with double beds, two cabins with a twin setup, one cabin with a single and a double bed, and one cabin with four single bunk beds. These cabins have portholes for fresh air and daylight.
Single Cabin
Room size: 8 m²Max. occupancy: 1
Beds: Single
Private bathroom: 1
Air conditioning: 1
WiFi in the room:
Lower Deck Double
Room size: – m²Max. occupancy: 2
Beds: Double
Private bathroom: 1
Air conditioning: 1
WiFi in the room:
Lower Deck Twin Cabin
Room size: – m²Max. occupancy: 2
Beds: 2 Single
Private bathroom: 1
Air conditioning: 1
WiFi in the room:
Main Deck Double Cabin
Room size: – m²Max. occupancy: 2
Beds: Double
Private bathroom: 1
Air conditioning: 1
WiFi in the room:
Comfort
The indoor saloon is a magnificent relaxing area, very much what you expect on a luxury yacht. You can watch a movie, play games, read a book, or have a drink with your fellow divers. Also indoors are the roomy air-conditioned restaurant and a camera preparation area.
Outside common areas include an après-dive sundeck and a shaded leisure deck with a bar.
Catering
Sea air and diving will make you go hungry. KLM Sea Safari 8 chefs will nourish you with tasty and healthy food. Our meals are served as delicious buffets with local and western dishes, and you can eat as much as you want.
Fresh fish and vegetarian plates are served frequently. You can obtain wine and beer from our bars.
Diving
Aquatic life doesn’t get more bio-diverse and fertile than in Raja Ampat. Here you may have occasional encounters with dolphins, manta rays, turtles, whales, and countless other fascinating life forms.
Diving and snorkeling in these waters is a mind-blowing experience. Our diving deck has all the amenities to guarantee a hassle-free underwater adventure, regardless if you are a snorkeler or tech diver.
KLM Sea Safari 8 liveaboard is based all year in Sorong harbor, Raja Ampat, and makes regular trips to North and South Raja Ampat.
SPECIFICATIONS
Year built: 2003
Year renovated: Yearly.
Length: 34.35 meter
Beam: 10m
Top speed: 10-12 Knots
Cruising speed: 12 Knots
Engines: 1 x Cummins KT-19 = 272 KW (365 PH) 1.800 RPM & 3 Auxilliary
Max guests: 24persons
Number of cabins: 12 cabins
Number of bathrooms: 13
Tenders: 2 x Outboard Yamaha 50 HP (4 Stroke)
Water capacity: 40 Tonnes
Fuel capacity: 30 Tonnes
NAVIGATION, COMMUNICATION, AND SAFETY FEATURES
✓ Radar
✓ GPS
✓ Radio VHF/DSC/SSB
✓ E.P.I.R.B. Distress System
✓ Emergency Rafts
✓ Life Vests
✓ Fire Alarm & Fire Extinguishers
✓ Oxygen
✓ First Aid Kits
✓ Satellite & mobile phones
✓ Searchlight
Available trips
Departure: 21 Nov 2021
Days/nights: 6 Days / 5 Nights
Day One: Arrival at Sorong Airport
Arrive at Sorong Jeffman Airport. Our representative will be waiting outside the arrival hall and ready to escort you the ship for immediate boarding. Cabin allocation and ship orientation will take place before departure. Take this opportunity to familiarize yourselves with the vessel, make yourself comfortable.
Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Day Two: Panemu Island
Melissa’s Garden, Barracuda Reef, Galaxy, Anita’s Garden. All of these dive sites offer world-class diving, fantastic corals and a huge amount of fish. Because the substrate at Melissa’s Garden is exceedingly delicate, absolute attention to good buoyancy is required. Also, this is a good chance to trek to one of the most famous viewpoints in the region.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive + trekking.
Day Three: Yanggefo Island
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive
Day Four: Airborek – Manta
There is a place called Manta point in supernal Arborek Dampier straits, where you can dive and be accompanied by several tame Manta Rays. There, the lovers dive will be easy to see fish with this body gigantic. Manta ray rotating bend-the body seems to be repeatedly acrobatic the amazing attraction. Waves caused swing the wing of the giant mammals that fly in the water depth is also enough to make divers oscillate. This fish usually live in groups have current downpours. Plankton and jellyfish is a delicious meal for the Manta.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive
Day Five
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Dive: 2-day dives
Day Six: Sorong Island
After breakfast, prepare for disembarkation. Be ready to leave the boat and you will be transferred to Sorong Airport for your next destination. Your diving journey has ended and we shall look forward to welcoming you onboard again.
Meals: Breakfast
Dive: no dive
Please note that the itineraries are examples only, We reserve the right to change the itinerary or specific agreed services, if force majeure, unforeseen or unavoidable circumstances require us to do so. Order of dive areas visited may change driven by local regulation.
Departure: 14 Feb 2022
Days/nights: 7 Days / 6 Nights
Day 1: Arrive in Sorong at the newly built Dominique Edward Osok airport. Our representative will be waiting outside the arrival hall and ready to escort you to the ship for immediate boarding. Our Safety Briefing, Safety DVD, Crew Introduction, Necessary Dive Paperwork, Cabin allocation, and ship orientation will take place before departing Sorong Harbour. During the journey to our first dive site, take this opportunity to familiarize yourselves with the vessel and make yourself comfortable.
Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Dive: Check Dive at Black Rock or Yum Slope
Day 2: Penemu Island – Melissa’s Garden, Barracuda Reef, Galaxy, Anita’s Garden. All of these dive sites offer world-class diving, fantastic corals, and a tremendous amount of fish. Because the substrate at Melissa’s Garden is exceedingly delicate, absolute attention to good buoyancy is required. This is also an excellent chance to trek to one of the most famous viewpoints in the region.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive + trekking.
Day 3: Yanggefo Island – Myhem, Citrus Ridge, Gam Ridge, and Mangroves. This area offers some truly unique environments to dive in. The vibrant orange soft corals of Citrus Ridge provide a stunning backdrop to this site, home to barracudas, bumphead parrotfish, and sea snakes are common here. Myhem offers schools of batfish, surgeonfish, and snappers, with the occasional Wobbegong sleeping under the coral heads. Gam Ridge is an excellent place to spot Eagle and Mobula rays. The Mangroves offer some stunning photo opportunities, diving late in the day around 4 pm when the sun is low in the sky gives some dazzling shafts of light in the mangrove shallows.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive
Day 4: Airborek Island – Manta Sandy, Manta Ridge, Airborek Island & Jetty. Manta Sandy and Manta Ridge are two of the most reliable Manta congregation spots in the Dampier Strait. You can look at the majestic animals somersaulting through the water while cleaned by several Wrasse species and even Butterflyfish. The Jetty at Airborek offers unique photo opportunities of the long wooden pillars covered with soft corals and sea fans; if you’re lucky, the local kids will be at play, jumping in the water, eager to get on your photo reel. Airborek Jetty offers one of the best night dives in Raja Ampat, where Blue Ring Octopus, Harlequin Shrimp, and Wobbegong are often seen.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive
Day 5: Dampier Strait – Mikes Point, Sardine Reef, Mioskon, and Friwinbondan. Before dive activities begin, we have an early rise; we search for the Red Bird of Paradise at Sawingkrai Village on Gam. We then continue to Mike’s Point. Schooling sweetlips, patrolling blacktip reef sharks, and interesting macro subjects such as small octopus and shrimp thrive in these craggy coral niches. Sardine Reef. Sardines are not found at this site, but you won’t miss them. Fusiliers, Surgeonfish, Trevally, Rainbow Runners, Sweetlips, and Bannerfish crowd the open water and swarm over a reef decorated with sea fans. Mioskon Reef is home to hundreds of lined snappers covering the slope; schools of glassfish hide in coral bommies, and Wobbegongs are very common here. Friwinbondan offers a good night dive with Nudibranches, many shrimps, and, if you are lucky, a Walking Shark (Epaulette shark)
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive + trekking
Day 6: Kri island – Cape Kri, Cape Mansuar, located in the Dampier Strait on Mansuar & Kri Islands. This site is one of the top dives in Raja. Cape Kri is recorded as having the most amount of fish species counted on a single dive by renowned ichthyologist Dr. Gerald Allen. Cape Mansuar is not far behind with large barracuda schools, surgeonfish, bumphead parrotfish, and many friendly turtles. A perfect way to end your trip.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Dive: 2-morning dives
Day 7: After breakfast, prepare for disembarkation. Be ready to leave the boat, and you will be transferred to Sorong Airport. Your diving journey has ended, and we shall look forward to welcoming you onboard again.
Meals: Breakfast
Dive: no dive
Marine Life: At least 75 percent of all coral species can be found in Raja Ampat. Divers can expect a range of topography from soft corals and sea fans to hard corals, seagrass beds, mangroves, shallow reefs, deep drop-offs, caves, black sand, and white sand. Giant manta rays, sea turtles, sharks, cuttlefish, pipefish, various seahorse species, and massive schools of reef fish are the norm, plus the delightful wobbegong sharks and epaulette sharks inhabit these waters too.
All divers must have Open Water certification with at least 25 logged dives in the past five years. Suppose the diver fails to meet this requirement. In that case, Sea Safari Cruises will require the diver to hire a private divemaster to ensure its safety during the diving activity. The fee for a private divemaster will be 50 USD/day. All divers must produce a written/stamped logbook with their last dives and all necessary certification cards for the type of dives they wish to undertake.
Departure: 24 Apr 2022
Days/nights: 7 Days / 6 Nights
Day 1: Arrive in Sorong at the newly built Dominique Edward Osok airport. Our representative will be waiting outside the arrival hall and ready to escort you to the ship for immediate boarding. Our Safety Briefing, Safety DVD, Crew Introduction, Necessary Dive Paperwork, Cabin allocation, and ship orientation will take place before departing Sorong Harbour. During the journey to our first dive site, take this opportunity to familiarize yourselves with the vessel and make yourself comfortable.
Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Dive: Check Dive at Black Rock or Yum Slope
Day 2: Penemu Island – Melissa’s Garden, Barracuda Reef, Galaxy, Anita’s Garden. All of these dive sites offer world-class diving, fantastic corals, and a tremendous amount of fish. Because the substrate at Melissa’s Garden is exceedingly delicate, absolute attention to good buoyancy is required. This is also an excellent chance to trek to one of the most famous viewpoints in the region.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive + trekking.
Day 3: Yanggefo Island – Myhem, Citrus Ridge, Gam Ridge, and Mangroves. This area offers some truly unique environments to dive in. The vibrant orange soft corals of Citrus Ridge provide a stunning backdrop to this site, home to barracudas, bumphead parrotfish, and sea snakes are common here. Myhem offers schools of batfish, surgeonfish, and snappers, with the occasional Wobbegong sleeping under the coral heads. Gam Ridge is an excellent place to spot Eagle and Mobula rays. The Mangroves offer some stunning photo opportunities, diving late in the day around 4 pm when the sun is low in the sky gives some dazzling shafts of light in the mangrove shallows.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive
Day 4: Airborek Island – Manta Sandy, Manta Ridge, Airborek Island & Jetty. Manta Sandy and Manta Ridge are two of the most reliable Manta congregation spots in the Dampier Strait. You can look at the majestic animals somersaulting through the water while cleaned by several Wrasse species and even Butterflyfish. The Jetty at Airborek offers unique photo opportunities of the long wooden pillars covered with soft corals and sea fans; if you’re lucky, the local kids will be at play, jumping in the water, eager to get on your photo reel. Airborek Jetty offers one of the best night dives in Raja Ampat, where Blue Ring Octopus, Harlequin Shrimp, and Wobbegong are often seen.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive
Day 5: Dampier Strait – Mikes Point, Sardine Reef, Mioskon, and Friwinbondan. Before dive activities begin, we have an early rise; we search for the Red Bird of Paradise at Sawingkrai Village on Gam. We then continue to Mike’s Point. Schooling sweetlips, patrolling blacktip reef sharks, and interesting macro subjects such as small octopus and shrimp thrive in these craggy coral niches. Sardine Reef. Sardines are not found at this site, but you won’t miss them. Fusiliers, Surgeonfish, Trevally, Rainbow Runners, Sweetlips, and Bannerfish crowd the open water and swarm over a reef decorated with sea fans. Mioskon Reef is home to hundreds of lined snappers covering the slope; schools of glassfish hide in coral bommies, and Wobbegongs are very common here. Friwinbondan offers a good night dive with Nudibranches, many shrimps, and, if you are lucky, a Walking Shark (Epaulette shark)
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive + trekking
Day 6: Kri island – Cape Kri, Cape Mansuar, located in the Dampier Strait on Mansuar & Kri Islands. This site is one of the top dives in Raja. Cape Kri is recorded as having the most amount of fish species counted on a single dive by renowned ichthyologist Dr. Gerald Allen. Cape Mansuar is not far behind with large barracuda schools, surgeonfish, bumphead parrotfish, and many friendly turtles. A perfect way to end your trip.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Dive: 2-morning dives
Day 7: After breakfast, prepare for disembarkation. Be ready to leave the boat, and you will be transferred to Sorong Airport. Your diving journey has ended, and we shall look forward to welcoming you onboard again.
Meals: Breakfast
Dive: no dive
Marine Life: At least 75 percent of all coral species can be found in Raja Ampat. Divers can expect a range of topography from soft corals and sea fans to hard corals, seagrass beds, mangroves, shallow reefs, deep drop-offs, caves, black sand, and white sand. Giant manta rays, sea turtles, sharks, cuttlefish, pipefish, various seahorse species, and massive schools of reef fish are the norm, plus the delightful wobbegong sharks and epaulette sharks inhabit these waters too.
All divers must have Open Water certification with at least 25 logged dives in the past five years. Suppose the diver fails to meet this requirement. In that case, Sea Safari Cruises will require the diver to hire a private divemaster to ensure its safety during the diving activity. The fee for a private divemaster will be 50 USD/day. All divers must produce a written/stamped logbook with their last dives and all necessary certification cards for the type of dives they wish to undertake.
Departure: 03 May 2022
Days/nights: 7 Days / 6 Nights
Day 1: Arrive in Sorong at the newly built Dominique Edward Osok airport. Our representative will be waiting outside the arrival hall and ready to escort you to the ship for immediate boarding. Our Safety Briefing, Safety DVD, Crew Introduction, Necessary Dive Paperwork, Cabin allocation, and ship orientation will take place before departing Sorong Harbour. During the journey to our first dive site, take this opportunity to familiarize yourselves with the vessel and make yourself comfortable.
Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Dive: Check Dive at Black Rock or Yum Slope
Day 2: Penemu Island – Melissa’s Garden, Barracuda Reef, Galaxy, Anita’s Garden. All of these dive sites offer world-class diving, fantastic corals, and a tremendous amount of fish. Because the substrate at Melissa’s Garden is exceedingly delicate, absolute attention to good buoyancy is required. This is also an excellent chance to trek to one of the most famous viewpoints in the region.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive + trekking.
Day 3: Yanggefo Island – Myhem, Citrus Ridge, Gam Ridge, and Mangroves. This area offers some truly unique environments to dive in. The vibrant orange soft corals of Citrus Ridge provide a stunning backdrop to this site, home to barracudas, bumphead parrotfish, and sea snakes are common here. Myhem offers schools of batfish, surgeonfish, and snappers, with the occasional Wobbegong sleeping under the coral heads. Gam Ridge is an excellent place to spot Eagle and Mobula rays. The Mangroves offer some stunning photo opportunities, diving late in the day around 4 pm when the sun is low in the sky gives some dazzling shafts of light in the mangrove shallows.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive
Day 4: Airborek Island – Manta Sandy, Manta Ridge, Airborek Island & Jetty. Manta Sandy and Manta Ridge are two of the most reliable Manta congregation spots in the Dampier Strait. You can look at the majestic animals somersaulting through the water while cleaned by several Wrasse species and even Butterflyfish. The Jetty at Airborek offers unique photo opportunities of the long wooden pillars covered with soft corals and sea fans; if you’re lucky, the local kids will be at play, jumping in the water, eager to get on your photo reel. Airborek Jetty offers one of the best night dives in Raja Ampat, where Blue Ring Octopus, Harlequin Shrimp, and Wobbegong are often seen.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive
Day 5: Dampier Strait – Mikes Point, Sardine Reef, Mioskon, and Friwinbondan. Before dive activities begin, we have an early rise; we search for the Red Bird of Paradise at Sawingkrai Village on Gam. We then continue to Mike’s Point. Schooling sweetlips, patrolling blacktip reef sharks, and interesting macro subjects such as small octopus and shrimp thrive in these craggy coral niches. Sardine Reef. Sardines are not found at this site, but you won’t miss them. Fusiliers, Surgeonfish, Trevally, Rainbow Runners, Sweetlips, and Bannerfish crowd the open water and swarm over a reef decorated with sea fans. Mioskon Reef is home to hundreds of lined snappers covering the slope; schools of glassfish hide in coral bommies, and Wobbegongs are very common here. Friwinbondan offers a good night dive with Nudibranches, many shrimps, and, if you are lucky, a Walking Shark (Epaulette shark)
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive + trekking
Day 6: Kri island – Cape Kri, Cape Mansuar, located in the Dampier Strait on Mansuar & Kri Islands. This site is one of the top dives in Raja. Cape Kri is recorded as having the most amount of fish species counted on a single dive by renowned ichthyologist Dr. Gerald Allen. Cape Mansuar is not far behind with large barracuda schools, surgeonfish, bumphead parrotfish, and many friendly turtles. A perfect way to end your trip.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Dive: 2-morning dives
Day 7: After breakfast, prepare for disembarkation. Be ready to leave the boat, and you will be transferred to Sorong Airport. Your diving journey has ended, and we shall look forward to welcoming you onboard again.
Meals: Breakfast
Dive: no dive
Marine Life: At least 75 percent of all coral species can be found in Raja Ampat. Divers can expect a range of topography from soft corals and sea fans to hard corals, seagrass beds, mangroves, shallow reefs, deep drop-offs, caves, black sand, and white sand. Giant manta rays, sea turtles, sharks, cuttlefish, pipefish, various seahorse species, and massive schools of reef fish are the norm, plus the delightful wobbegong sharks and epaulette sharks inhabit these waters too.
All divers must have Open Water certification with at least 25 logged dives in the past five years. Suppose the diver fails to meet this requirement. In that case, Sea Safari Cruises will require the diver to hire a private divemaster to ensure its safety during the diving activity. The fee for a private divemaster will be 50 USD/day. All divers must produce a written/stamped logbook with their last dives and all necessary certification cards for the type of dives they wish to undertake.
Included: VAT, Accommodation, Complimentary toiletries, Tanks, Weights, Belts, Divemaster services, All meals, Possible fuel surcharge, Towels Provided
Excluded: International/domestic airfare and airport tax, Personal diving equipment (available for rent) and battery, Komodo National Park fee (25 USD/person/night), Raja Ampat entrance fee (145 USD/person/packages), Cendrawasih Fee (35 USD/person/night), Maumere (Maumere 75 USD/person/package), Alor, Lembeh – Sangihe Talaud, Halmahera (100USD/pax/package), Gratuities to guide and crew (we recommend a tip at least USD 20 per day), Onboard telecommunication, Laundry service, Alcoholic beverages &Soft Drinks, 32% EAN Nitrox.
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