For those of you who have not tried it, you should give some serious consideration to SCUBA diving from a liveaboard. Most liveaboards can be considered mobile platforms from which to do some of the world’s best diving. Most of the established operations have excellent amenities and highly skilled divemasters and instructors that truly enhance your diving experience.

For the truly dive crazy, being on a liveaboard is heaven. On most boats you can do as many dive a day as your computer and stamina will allow.

There are a large variety of liveaboards: from inexpensive 2-day Channel Island trips to premier warm water operations like the Mike Ball liveaboards based in Townsville, Australia, There are boats all over the world that provide superb diving sometimes up to 100–200 miles offshore and afford uncrowded dive sites, Nitrox and an on-board photopro. Some of our staff have extensive experience with these operations and would be happy to share it with you.

There are also liveaboards that specialize in cold water diving. The Nautilus VII, which operates out of Vancouver, BC, is such a boat. They take you to seldom-visited sites, allowing you to see unique invertebrate life and offer some exciting coldwater drift diving. They also offer onboard Nitrox.

In summary, for the uninitiated, liveaboard diving is an experience well worth having if you’ve never tried it before. For those that have had this experience, you probably need little encouragement to try more.

For liveaboard trips that we offer check our Australia, Channel Islands, Bali/Komodo, Maldives, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Turks & Caicos and Vancouver travel pages.