cozumel 2023
30 August - 04 September 2023 -
Cozumel – Cuzamil in the Mayan language – means the place of the swallows and was once one of the holiest places in the Mayan kingdom. Today it is known as some of the best reef diving in the Western Caribbean.
What makes Cozumel unique is the gentle, steady current that renders all boat dives into drift dives and also nourishes the life at the base of the food chain. The current literally puts nutrients in the mouths of coral and sponges. Consequently, everything up the food chain thrives also. Coral heads are mountainous and fish populations are always good.
The people are friendly, there are great restaurants and, unlike other parts of Mexico, Cozumel is safe for travel. As in the rest of the Yucatan, the area below the surface of the island is honeycombed with underwater caves, many of which are unexplored. We have many great friends there and Cozumel will always occupy a special place in our hearts.
Truk Lagoon
15-22 November 2023 (Space Available - Call)
Truk Lagoon is considered the Super Bowl of wreck diving with over 70 ships and 400 aircraft destroyed during Operation Hailstone on February, 1944. Truk Lagoon was the forward anchorage for the Imperial Japanese Navy and this battle was Japan's Pearl Harbor.
There are plenty of wrecks within recreational depth limits (some even extend above the surface) and also deeper technical dives if one is trained and equipped to safely conduct them. Most divers who visit Truk/Chuuk are recreational and there are more dives within rec. depth limits than they could ever hope to do in months. This will be our fourth trip. In addition to the ships and artifacts are beautiful corals that cover the wrecks, tons of tropical fish and sharks and rays. There is a wealth of great diving and history here for everyone.
Palau Siren - 2023
23 November - 01 December 2023 - New Moon Bumphead Parrotfish Spawning Dives (1 Cabin, 2 spaces, Available at a Discount - Call)
Join us aboard the Sailing Yacht Palau Siren for some of the most beautiful and exciting South Pacific diving on the planet. We have chosen a date that not only falls when Palau is at its best (calm, warm water and less rain), but that also coincides with a New Moon Bumphead Parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum) spawning event. Special dives are planned to experience the spawning!
Palau is many people's favorite spot in the world to dive and we have been twice, but we wanted to add the Bumphead Parrotfish event plus the beauty and serenity of the sailing liveaboard experience to this trip.
Bahamas - 2023 WRECKs, BLUE HOLES AND SHARKS
3-10 October 2024 - Wrecks, Blue Holes, and Sharks Aboard the Bahamas Master
The Bahamas Master itineraries explore the best dive sites in the Bahamas. World famous for shark diving, the Bahamas is the third largest barrier reef and made up of over 700 islands & cays, offering truly spectacular and diverse diving. As part of the itineraries, the M/V Bahamas Master will visit Tiger Beach off the West End of Grand Bahama, famous for close encounters with 15-foot-long Tiger sharks as well as possible encounters with hammerhead, nurse & bull sharks. Sugar Wreck is a popular stop, and home to residents such as green moray eels, snapper, turtles, and octopus, and Bimini Island offers close-up encounters with hammerheads and bull sharks. The large dive deck includes individual storage and set-up locations, a camera set-up station, dedicated rinse tanks and nitrox is available for those certified. life!
SOCORRO Island - 2024 Giant Mantas, Sharks and Dolphins
20 - 28 June 2024 aboard Nautilus Belle Amie
Socorro, in the remote Mexican Pacific, is many people's favorite destination and is the best place in this hemisphere, if not the world, to see large animals. Socorro consistently produces large manta rays, multiple species of sharks including hammerheads, friendly dolphins, whale sharks and more. The populations of marine life are like going back in time. You can see giant mantas in many places around the world, but nowhere else boasts a population of giant mantas that literally seek out interaction with divers and snorkelers. While mantas are the main reason to voyage out to Socorro, there are lots of other animals to see, including schooling hammerheads and silky sharks, plus 12 other species of sharks, bottlenose dolphins that consistently hang out with divers at certain dive sites, large schools of pelagic fish, and, in season, humpback whales. Our home for 9 days and 8 nights is the flagship Nautilus Belle Amie, the largest, most stable and newest ship in the Nautilus Liveaboards fleet and luxurious, too.
PHILIPPINES - 2025 TUBBATAHA
Tubbataha National Park aboard the Philippine Siren - 27 March - 02 April 202
The Philippines comprise over 7,600 islands, surrounded by deep blue seas that contain some of the richest marine life on earth. Considered by many to be the apex of the Coral Triangle, scuba diving in the Philippines offers a wide variety of marine environments to choose from.
Whether it’s dives on steep walls and offshore pinnacles, critter hunting in coastal reefs, the sardine run, or the opportunity to get up close to the world’s largest fish – the whale shark, the Philippines will whet the appetite of even the most seasoned diver.
Tubbataha, a UNESCO World Heritage site, offers exhilarating wall & drift diving, wrecks and a good chance to spot hammerhead sharks, mantas, and whale sharks, plus some of the world’s best coral gardens. Also, gigantic fan corals flourish in Tubbataha waters.
