Awarded as BEST DIVE SAFARI 2018 at the Maldives Boating Awards, Sachika Liveaboard is a top pick among the diving community because of the comfort and luxury it offers. Dive trips on Sachika are taken round the year to get pleasure from the diversity of the marine life of the northern and southern atolls of the marvelous Maldives.
Built-in 2007, the 33m long Sachika is a typical liveaboard with its wooden structure, a perfect blend of style and hospitality, giving the guests the time of their life with four open-air decks air-conditioned restaurants and bars all over the board to sit and unwind.
This dreamy cruise can be the ultimate diving holiday for avid divers. They can have the best of both worlds by enjoying luxury and adventure, with all the incredible and calming views of marine life in the Indian Ocean.
Custom-built especially for diving, Sachika liveaboard has ten top-notch rooms to lodge up to 20 guests. The cabins are designed to provide the guests with a relaxed, safe, and smooth sailing experience. The three-cabin options include standard cabins and junior suits on the main deck and suites on the upper deck.
Standard twin cabins can be configured with twin and double settings as per requirement. Junior suites have king-sized double and single beds.
All the cabins and suites are equipped with en-suite bathrooms/hot showers, individually controlled air-conditioning, mini-bar, and portholes to let the natural light inside the room. Besides the standard amenities, the suites also offer private Jacuzzis, personal TV, DVD players, and the ocean’s stunning views through panoramic windows.
MV Sachika provides ample opportunities to relax and enjoy with four decks available on and off the board. A five-person Jacuzzi on the main deck allows you to enjoy a relaxing bath in the sun or a bright night according to your liking.
Open sun decks let the sun loungers soak up the sun, or take a leisurely nap on the shaded deck and appreciate the glorious oceanic views.
A large saloon allows the guests to socialize or wind down after a long day of diving. The saloon offers facilities that include a large TV, music system, WIFI internet, movies, and book libraries, with lounging and reading space, where you can enjoy while having your favorite drinks from the bar.
Sachika Maldives also has a massage room whose services can be availed upon request. Other water activities like Seadoo underwater scooters are available for rent.
The air-conditioned, indoor restaurant at the Sachika liveaboard offers exceptionally mouthwatering buffet-style food thrice a day, including the varieties of local and international delicacies while enjoying the fantastic ocean views. A coffee bar is also located on the main deck. A 40-inch TV is available in the restaurant where you can enjoy watching your favorite DVD while savoring your dinner or sipping on your coffee.
Scuba diving trips on Sachika are conducted all year round. You can discover the most incredible pelagic and coral gardens in the northern, southern, and Central Atolls of the Maldives, with Whale sharks, Manta Rays, and regular sightings hammerheads in the exceptionally blue waters.
Night diving in the Maldives is one of the highlights of a liveaboard cruise in the Indian ocean and provided at least once a trip. One of the most popular dive sites is for a night dive is in the Ari atoll, where you can see manta rays in a shallow lagoon.
Dive trips are conducted from dhoni, the accompanying boat, which is equipped with necessities like air compressors, diving, and safety gear, and a fire alarm system to guarantee a safe and memorable diving experience for the passionate divers.
The crew consists of a professionally trained cruise director, a marine biologist, and dive guides who efficiently and constantly help you make the most out of your diving trip.
Year built2007
Length33m
Deck area: 3 Decks
Beam: 10m
Cruising speed: 11 knots
Engines: Yanmar 480 HP
Max guests: 22
Number of cabins: 10
Number of bathrooms: 11
Tenders: 1×5 m tender “dinghy” Boston Whaler with Suzuki engine 50 hp & 1×19 m luxury Diving Dhoni with Daewoo Doosan Engine 280 HP
Water capacity: 2 desalination plants with 600 lt/h capacity
✓ GPS
✓ Radio VHF/DSC/SSB
✓ Life Vests
✓ Fire Alarm & Fire Extinguishers
✓ Oxygen
✓ First Aid Kits
✓ Engine room CCTV
Sachika Liveaboard best Maldives dive safari vessel in 2018, offers diving holidays to the central atolls, Northern Atolls, and Deep South.
Main Atolls: North Male – South Male – Vaavu – Meemu – Thaa – Laamu
Day 1: Check-in.
Day 2-7: Dive Sites Highlights
Male South
Vaavu:
Meemu:
Thaa:
Laamu:
Day 8: Check out.
This is the route during which the boat moves to the deep South. It’s a unique cruise that we do only two weeks a year in high season. This cruise is beautiful because the crossed atolls are still very wild. This cruise is dedicated to the typical Maldivian’s CHANNELS DIVES. Needs to take an additional domestic flight.
Please note that there is a possibility to do the check-out on the 6th night (Friday 5th February) in case of preference. Please enquire about the price when booking.
Domestic flight from Laamu (KDO) to Male (MLE) are available with 2 possibilities:
Day 1: Usually, the schedule for the first day is connected with guests’ domestic flight landing time. Normal check-in is in the afternoon/late afternoon. Welcome onboard meeting and dinner.
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7: Usually, the last day’s schedule is connected with the guest’s departure time. We will dive 24 hours before your flight will take off.
Rather than dive, we will bring you to visit a local fisherman island, different sandbanks, and deserted islands. All connect to dive timing and weather conditions.
Day 8: Breakfast. Check-out in the morning.
In the Maldives, all the dives sites that have “Kandu” in the name are channel dives. That means clear water, dive on the ocean edge to meet a big amount of grey reef sharks, tuna, jackfish, and sometimes dolphins and sailfish. In the deep south, some of them host a big amount of green turtles (Kooddo Kandu, Vilingili Kandu particularly); some of them have great coral gardens (such as Kureddoo Kandu, Kondei Kandu). Outside of the island of Genemanafushi, we have a good chance to meet a large group of Hammerheads Sharks, diving in the blue, drifting long an oceanic reef.
Southern than Huvadhoo, if the ocean condition is good, we can go to the ultimate Maldivian dive destination, Fommulah. This atoll is made by only one island in the middle of the Indian ocean: here, thanks to the oceanic current, we have great chances to meet tiger sharks and thresher sharks. We can spend here just one full day and make 3 dives, because there isn’t a place for night anchorage: not so uncommon to meet here oceanic mantas or whale sharks.
More than one night, we will try to attract whale sharks behind the boat with a powerful light.
Thanks to the many desert islands, we will do the barbecue on the beach in a very beautiful location, need just to pic-up an island!
This cruise is dedicated to expert divers, profiles are generally deep and with some decompression. The boat moves there for the two months of high season to join the clear water and the pelagic life of the typical Maldivian’s CHANNELS DIVES. Needs to take an additional national flight.
Internal flights Male (MLE) – Huvadhoo (airport to be defined) on arrival day and Huvadhoo (airport to be defined) – Male (MLE) on departure day required – 425 USD per person return ticket.
Day 1: Usually, the schedule for the first day is connected with guests’ domestic flight landing time. Normal check-in is in the afternoon/late afternoon. Welcome onboard meeting and dinner.
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7: Usually, the last day’s schedule is connected with the guest’s departure time. We will dive 24 hours before your flight will take off.
Rather than dive, we will bring you to visit a local fisherman island, different sandbanks, and deserted islands. All connect to dive timing and weather conditions.
Day 8: Breakfast. Check-out in the morning.
In the Maldives, all the dives sites that have “Kandu” in the name are channel dives. That means clear water, dive on the ocean edge to meet a big amount of grey reef sharks, tuna, jackfish, and sometimes dolphins and sailfish. In the deep south, some of them host a big amount of green turtles (Kooddo Kandu, Vilingili Kandu particularly); some of them have great coral gardens (such as Kureddoo Kandu, Kondei Kandu). Outside of the island of Genemanafushi, we have a good chance to meet a large group of Hammerheads Sharks, diving in the blue, drifting long an oceanic reef.
Southern than Huvadhoo, if the ocean condition is good, we can go to the ultimate Maldivian dive destination, Fommulah. This atoll is made by only one island in the middle of the Indian ocean: here, thanks to the oceanic current, we have great chances to meet tiger sharks and thresher sharks. We can spend here just one full day and make 3 dives, because there isn’t a place for night anchorage: not so uncommon to meet here oceanic mantas or whale sharks.
More than one night, we will try to attract whale sharks behind the boat with a powerful light.
Thanks to the many desert islands, we will do the barbecue on the beach in a very beautiful location, need just to pic-up an island!
This cruise is dedicated to expert divers, profiles are generally deep and with some decompression. The boat moves there for the two months of high season to join the clear water and the pelagic life of the typical Maldivian’s CHANNELS DIVES. Needs to take an additional national flight.
Internal flights Male (MLE) – Huvadhoo (airport to be defined) on arrival day and Huvadhoo (airport to be defined) – Male (MLE) on departure day required – 425 USD per person return ticket.
An exciting mix between submerged landscapes and breathtaking views.
At the center of this long archipelago are situated, from east to west, three of the most famous atolls of Maldives: North Male, South Male, and Ari.
The cruise sets out to the south, letting new divers get used to the comfortable temperatures of these waters with the exploration of a trawler which sank three decades ago, turned into a house for the typical microfauna of these waters: needlefish and scorpionfish (Pterois volitans) inhabiting the outside decks and clefts full of glassfish.
The fishermen Island of Gurahidoo is surrounded by dive sites that can give rivers of currents in the pass, in Dhivehi called ”Kandu“, which bring large predators like the typical white tip reef sharks and grey reef sharks. Is not unusual to encounter large napoleons and green turtles (Chelonia midas) between the protrusions of Kandooma Thila.
The crossing to the west of South Ari atoll is often accompanied by large groups of dolphins.
These waters are characterized by Rowley shoals dives, which in Dhivehi are called “Thila”. They are particular because of the abundance of fish and coral gardens both hard and soft. In fact, Dhangheti area is famous for its spectacular dive sites such as 5 Rocks with its blue sea fans and Kuda Thila Raa with its schools of squirrelfish and yellow striped blue snappers, soft corals, and long black coral whips.
Before sailing back to the central areas is a must trying to see, in true “safari” style, the great lord of this area, the whale shark.
In the western part of the atoll, when dry winds blow from the northeast, there are several points where is easy to meet the great manta rays that come close to the reef to enjoy the many cleaning station rich of plankton.
Marine Life: Whale sharks, manta rays, scorpionfish, glassfish, reef sharks, napoloan wrass, green turtles, beautiful corals, dolphins,
Included: VAT, Fuel Surcharge, Airport Transfer, Drinking Water, Tea & Coffee, Welcome Cocktails, Beach BBQ, Full-Board Meal Plan (All meals), Snacks, Diving Package, Fishing, Kayaks, Land Excursions, Snorkeling Guide, Beach Towels, Cabin Towels, Complimentary Toiletries, Deck Towels.
Required Extras: Environment Tax (6 USD per day), National Park Fees.
Optional Extras: Dive Insurance (25 USD per trip), Gratuities (70 USD per trip), Local Flights, Alcoholic Beverages, Soft drinks, Special Dinner, Extra Dives, Nitrox, Nitrox Course, Private Dive Guide, Rental Gear, Scuba Diving Courses, Snorkel Gear, WiFi internet (20 USD).
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