Liveaboard
Definition
A liveaboard is a boat designed for multi-day scuba diving trips, where divers eat, sleep, and dive from the same vessel.
More on Liveaboard
Liveaboards offer immersive dive vacations in remote or pristine locations unreachable by day boats. Divers stay onboard for several days, enjoying 3–5 dives daily, including night dives. Liveaboards feature gear stations, compressor rooms, cabins, meals, and dive guides. They're ideal for destinations like the Maldives, Galápagos, Red Sea, or Indonesia. They cater to recreational, technical, and photography-focused divers alike.
Frequently Asked Questions
You access remote dive sites, do more dives per day, enjoy onboard meals and gear storage, and build camaraderie with other divers.
Some are beginner-friendly, but many require advanced certification due to currents, depth, or remoteness. Always check requirements.
Typically: cabin, meals, dives, tanks, weights, guide services. Nitrox, gear rental, and park fees may be extra.
Bring dive gear, certification cards, medications, motion sickness remedies, and plan for limited connectivity.
It’s a dive-eat-sleep-repeat routine in close quarters. Quiet downtime, good food, and stunning dives make it rewarding.