Live Aboard Underwater Photography Cruises

FLORES to SUMBAWA

Located in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia, Sumbawa has fantastic muck diving sites, as well as an offshore active volcanic island that has beautiful reefs with abundant critters like nudibranchs, ghost pipefish and frogfish. We also visit the northern islands of the Komodo group on this trip with its fantastic pelagic action and manta ray encounters...... Read more at our Flores to Sumbawa page

RAJA AMPAT

Are four large and many smaller islands located off the western end of the 2nd largest island in the World - New Guinea. Raja Ampat (Four Kings in Indonesian) are home to the greatest diversity of marine fishes in the World. Due to their remote nature, These Indonesian islands have only been explored underwater in the last decade. What they have revealed, will amaze even the most experienced divers......
Read more at our Raja Ampat page
Manta Ray - Copyright Jeff Mullins 2010
Manta Ray Komodo
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Komodo Sunrise


Live Aboard Diving Raja Ampat
Raja Ampat Live-aboard
We began running live-aboard dive trips in 1982, off the remote coast of Western Australia. We expanded our diving interests into Indonesia a few years later, when we began exploring the outer islands of Sulawesi and the Moluku Islands.
In 2007 we began escorting underwater photo live-aboard trips in the Komodo National Park in eastern Indonesia.
Since then we have also added North Sulawesi, Raja Ampat, Flores to Sumbawa, Komodo, Cenderawasih Bay  and Maumere to Alor as well as some other exploratory destinations in eastern Indonesia.

These trips are timed to coincide with the times of year that generally provide peak diving and underwater photographic conditions. The trips are organised to allow mimimum travelling onboard the live-aboard vessel, with no overnight travelling, and no long drawn-out boat journeys. We cater for small groups of divers, with a maximum of 10 guests onboard.
We fly out of the Airport on Denpasar, Bali to Flores for our Komodo trips. From Bali to Sorong for our Raja Ampat trips. From Bali to either Labuanbajo or Bima for our Sumbawa to Flores trips, and Bali or Singapore to Manado for our North Sulawesi trips. We meet the live-aboard  at a pre-determined location, always as close as possible to the destination airport for the least amount of overland travelling. We make all arrangements for the flights, boat and all diving. All you need to worry about is you .... and your camera equipment!
Jeff offers FREE underwater photography help to all guests, plus offers FREE evening tuition with Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Lightroom. So any problems you may be encountering with a particular aspect of your underwater photography, should be discussed with Jeff during the trip. He will then do his best to help you personally. Don't be detered if you shoot with a compact camera, around fifty percent of the people that join our trips shoot with compact underwater camera's. The other fifty percent shoot with a mix of mirrorless, dSLR or video. We can help you no matter what type of camera you shoot with.
Komodo Live Aboard Underwater Photo Trip
Komodo & Maumere -Alor Live-Aboard
We only cater to experienced divers, as many of the dive sites we visit are in open-ocean environments and we do experience currents. But we also time our trips to coincide with the smallest tidal fluctuations at our destination, so we don't experience the stronger currents that these areas are re-known for.
Our emphasis is on the quality of dives we conduct. We mostly offer 4 dives a day, (3 day & 1 night dive). But you won't be harassed into cutting dives short or when you reach a minimum tank pressure. You can make your dives as long as they can safely be conducted.

We don't accept divers with less than 100 dives, and of these we'd like to see that you have at least 10 dives in open ocean, current conditions. As we may experience strong-unexpected currents on some dive sites (particularly in Komodo, Sumbawa, Alor & Raja Amat).
We also don't offer 5 dives a day, if you are looking for this, then please contact one of the mainstream live-aboard operators, who will restrict you to 40 minute dives and 50Bar minimum tank pressure. Then you will be able to fit 5 dives into a day!
 We offer experienced divers the ability to conduct 90 minute dives (or longer), if they are able to do so safely and without requiring decompression dives.
Our trips are all about diving, photography, fun, relaxing, exploring and discovering.

  • Click here to read more about our Raja Ampat trips
  • Click here to watch a short Komodo Video from one of our trips


Dive Sites of Indonesia

INDONESIA MARINE FACTS

  • Did you Know, that Indonesia is more than 5.000 kms long? (which is an average length for a continent)
  • Did you Know, that Indonesia has the longest coastline in the world, with 100.000 kms long?
  • Did you Know, that Indonesia is probably the last country in the world, which has still unexplored territories, and is not completly mapped? (especially around West Papua)
  • Did you Know, that there are 17,508 islands in Indonesia, which is the largest Archipelago in the world?
  • Did you Know, that if you could spend only 1 day on each island of Indonesia, you would need 48 years to see all of them? (transportation between islands not counted)
  • Did you Know, that of the 17,508 islands, only 6,000 have a name, and only 1.000 are inhabited?
  • Did you Know, that there are 25% of the world's coral reefs in Indonesia?
  • Did you Know, that of the 4,500 species of reef fishes existing in the oceans worlwide, around 3,500 of them have been identified in Indonesia?
  • Did you Know, that Indonesia has the biggest underwater biodiversity in the world?