Tiare

Day 1: Board the stunning Tiaré, your home for the next 11 nights, in Sorong, and be ready to depart around 12 pm.

Day 2-10: On a liveaboard cruise on Tiaré, you can expect to dive 3 or 4 times a day depending on the weather conditions and currents.

Misool is in the southern part of Raja Ampat. Your first stop is at Pulau Pele, where Kaleidoscope Reef is as amazing a dive as the name suggests. Fans, colorful soft corals, a wide variety of reef fish, and dancing anchovies make this an unforgettable morning dive. Later in the day, Wayilbatan offers a dive in the mild currents between 2 small islands. This passage is filled with fans, soft corals and bommies, sweet lips, and turtles carried on the current. In the late afternoon, the light at Pulau Boo a perfect dive thanks to 3 holes in the middle of the wall where the light creates beautiful effects.

Koon Island off the coast of Seram is a dive with a huge concentration of fish. One site is even called Too Many Fish, where, depending on the current, the amount of schooling fish can be almost unbelievable. You’ll explore this area and choose the best spots depending on the weather conditions and currents. The channels around Seram offer plenty of great dives to choose from.

Southeast of Hatta Island is Karang Hatta, where the dive sites are closest to the 6000 meters deep Banda Trench. This means the chance of seeing large pelagic like white tip reef sharks, hammerheads, grey reef sharks, barracuda, and tuna is much higher. In the shallows, hard corals swarm with life as well, especially the reef’s edge where the currents start to hit.

Manuk is home to some of the largest schools of barracuda in the Banda Sea. The healthy reefs are also home to turtles, sea snakes, and a variety of sharks. Visibility is great, so that photographers will love diving here.

The Banda Islands may be famous for historical forts and nutmeg plantations, but they also offer some of the most incredible diving in Indonesia. If you love sea fans, you’re in for a treat at Batu Kapal. You’ll also have the unique experience of diving into the lava flow, which has become a stunning coral garden since the last eruption in 1988. You’ll see how nutrient-rich the waters are here by the schools of surgeonfish, banners, and so many more reef species. Also, the mandarin fish found here under the pier are some of the biggest you’ll ever lay eyes on.

Nusa Laut, you’ll dive over beautiful hard and soft corals in this extremely healthy reef. There is plenty of life here with tons of fish, including schooling jacks, grey reefs, and bump heads. Leopard sharks and dugongs have also been spotted here, so if you’re lucky, you’ll get the chance to see them as well.

Day 11: Final day of diving with 1-2 scheduled dives – sailing towards Ambon Harbour.

Day 12: After breakfast and check-out, we start preparing for disembarkation in Ambon. We say good-bye to our guests and wish them farewell!

The itineraries may vary depending on weather conditions, flight timetables, and other unforeseen circumstances.

Marine Life: Snapper, Bumphead, blunt head parrotfish, turtles, sharks, moray eels, dog-toothed tuna, fusiliers, jacks, Hammerhead, thresher, and silvertip sharks, Mobula rays, whales, dolphins, and much more.

Day 1: Board the stunning Tiaré, your home for the next 11 nights, in Sorong, and be ready to depart around 12 pm.

Day 2-10: On a liveaboard cruise on Tiaré, you can expect to dive 3 or 4 times a day depending on the weather conditions and currents.

Misool is in the southern part of Raja Ampat. Your first stop is at Pulau Pele, where Kaleidoscope Reef is as amazing a dive as the name suggests. Fans, colorful soft corals, a wide variety of reef fish, and dancing anchovies make this an unforgettable morning dive. Later in the day, Wayilbatan offers a dive in the mild currents between 2 small islands. This passage is filled with fans, soft corals and bommies, sweet lips, and turtles carried on the current. In the late afternoon, the light at Pulau Boo a perfect dive thanks to 3 holes in the middle of the wall where the light creates beautiful effects.

Koon Island off the coast of Seram is a dive with a huge concentration of fish. One site is even called Too Many Fish, where, depending on the current, the amount of schooling fish can be almost unbelievable. You’ll explore this area and choose the best spots depending on the weather conditions and currents. The channels around Seram offer plenty of great dives to choose from.

Southeast of Hatta Island is Karang Hatta, where the dive sites are closest to the 6000 meters deep Banda Trench. This means the chance of seeing large pelagic like white tip reef sharks, hammerheads, grey reef sharks, barracuda, and tuna is much higher. In the shallows, hard corals swarm with life as well, especially the reef’s edge where the currents start to hit.

Manuk is home to some of the largest schools of barracuda in the Banda Sea. The healthy reefs are also home to turtles, sea snakes, and a variety of sharks. Visibility is great, so that photographers will love diving here.

The Banda Islands may be famous for historical forts and nutmeg plantations, but they also offer some of the most incredible diving in Indonesia. If you love sea fans, you’re in for a treat at Batu Kapal. You’ll also have the unique experience of diving into the lava flow, which has become a stunning coral garden since the last eruption in 1988. You’ll see how nutrient-rich the waters are here by the schools of surgeonfish, banners, and so many more reef species. Also, the mandarin fish found here under the pier are some of the biggest you’ll ever lay eyes on.

Nusa Laut, you’ll dive over beautiful hard and soft corals in this extremely healthy reef. There is plenty of life here with tons of fish, including schooling jacks, grey reefs, and bump heads. Leopard sharks and dugongs have also been spotted here, so if you’re lucky, you’ll get the chance to see them as well.

Day 11: Final day of diving with 1-2 scheduled dives – sailing towards Ambon Harbour.

Day 12: After breakfast and check-out, we start preparing for disembarkation in Ambon. We say good-bye to our guests and wish them farewell!

The itineraries may vary depending on weather conditions, flight timetables, and other unforeseen circumstances.

Marine Life: Snapper, Bumphead, blunt head parrotfish, turtles, sharks, moray eels, dog-toothed tuna, fusiliers, jacks, Hammerhead, thresher, and silvertip sharks, Mobula rays, whales, dolphins, and much more.

Sample Itinerary

Your journey with Tiare starts when you arrived at the airport, where our crew will welcome you upon arrival. On your disembarkation day, you will be transferred back to the airport to say our goodbyes.

Day 1: Embarkation at Ambon. Check dive at Ambon, which is one of the best muck dives in the world.

Day 2 -7: 3-4 dives per day, including night dive where possible

• Banda Neira
• Banda Islands

Day 8: Suanggi

• 1st dive Suanggi Ridge
• 2nd dive Suanggi Wall
• 3rd dive Pulau Ai
• Crossing to Nusa Laut

Day 9: Nusa Laut

• 1st dive Pombo Boi (Saparua Island)
• 2nd dive Ameth (Nusa Laut)
• 3rd dive Ameth (Nusa Laut)
• Crossing to Laha

Day 10: Laha

• 1st dive Laha
• 2nd Dive – Laha II
• 3rd Dive – Rhino City
• Night Dive Laha

Day 11: Maumere – 2 dives and sail back to the harbor

Day 12: Disembarkation at Maumere.

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.

The last dive will be on the penultimate day of the trip at around 4 pm. Divers are recommended to wait for 24hours before flying after the last dive.

Sample Itinerary

Your journey with Tiare starts when you arrived at the airport, where our crew will welcome you upon arrival. On your disembarkation day, you will be transferred back to the airport to say our goodbyes.

Day 1: Embarkation at Ambon. Check dive at Ambon, which is one of the best muck dives in the world.

Day 2 -7: 3-4 dives per day, including night dive where possible

• Banda Neira
• Banda Islands

Day 8: Suanggi

• 1st dive Suanggi Ridge
• 2nd dive Suanggi Wall
• 3rd dive Pulau Ai
• Crossing to Nusa Laut

Day 9: Nusa Laut

• 1st dive Pombo Boi (Saparua Island)
• 2nd dive Ameth (Nusa Laut)
• 3rd dive Ameth (Nusa Laut)
• Crossing to Laha

Day 10: Laha

• 1st dive Laha
• 2nd Dive – Laha II
• 3rd Dive – Rhino City
• Night Dive Laha

Day 11: Maumere – 2 dives and sail back to the harbor

Day 12: Disembarkation at Maumere.

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.

The last dive will be on the penultimate day of the trip at around 4 pm. Divers are recommended to wait for 24hours before flying after the last dive.