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Dive Overview

Raja Ampat cruises allow you to explore the most biodiverse waters on the planet, breath-taking panorama, diving pristine, remote and sometimes unknown sites with all the comforts of a luxury liveaboard safari.

Komodo is a wonderful action-packed destination. Think of schools of fish, mantas, sharks, and trekking to Komodo National Park with a ranger to see the world famous Komodo dragons in action or, better, to meet wild dragon along the Rinca shore

Some trips will take you more remote places like Cenderawasih Bay or Triton Bay to see whale sharks or, the Banda Sea for hammerheads.

Raja Ampat

Raja Ampat literally translates to Four Kings. The myth goes that each King reigns over one of four main islands, Misool, Salawati, Batanta, and Waigeo. For the lucky few Raja Ampat is not one of the most frequently visited scuba diving areas but can surely be nowhere better on earth. The highest marine diversity on the planet, beautiful topside scenery and awesome underwater topography, makes Raja Ampat islands the closest place to heaven.

• Cape Kri. If you want to see large fish and to be enveloped by fish then roll in here, both desires will soon be satisfied. Groupers, sharks, snappers, Napoleon wrasse, barracuda, dogtooth tuna, trevallies. They are all here in numbers. Cape Kri is a great place to spot wobbegongs, the curious carpet shark, but you should also admire gorgonian fans to look for pygmy seahorses grasping its branches.
• The Jef Fam Group. Is in the central region of Raja Ampat, so its quite probable that youll visit it whether we are joining a southern or northern cruise route. Its quite a large area with some impressive cabbage corals, sheet corals and mushroom corals What makes Jef Fam special is its diversity of marine encounters and is the best place to find wobbegongs. You can also see huge giant clams, Spanish mackerel, great barracuda and manta rays.
• Misol Island. Is located in the southern part of the Raja Ampat area and is home to an astonishingly colorful reef-scene. Soft corals dress up slopes, walls, and canyons in a colorful palette No big schools here but cuttlefish, pipefish, Indian lionfish, nudibranchs, soft corals and critters. Unmissable by night.
• Manta Ridge. Is one of the best dive spots in Raja Ampat to regularly see mantas in impressive numbers, it is a popular central site, thanks to a cleaning station which delivers some awesome manta ray action to the few lucky enough to be there. In current, you may have to hook into place before enjoying the show which includes some black mantas, bumphead, parrotfish, and turtles all unconcerned by the audience.

Dive Overview

Raja Ampat cruises allow you to explore the most biodiverse waters on the planet, breath-taking panorama, diving pristine, remote and sometimes unknown sites with all the comforts of a luxury liveaboard safari.

Komodo is a wonderful action-packed destination. Think of schools of fish, mantas, sharks, and trekking to Komodo National Park with a ranger to see the world famous Komodo dragons in action or, better, to meet wild dragon along the Rinca shore

Some trips will take you more remote places like Cenderawasih Bay or Triton Bay to see whale sharks or, the Banda Sea for hammerheads.

Flores To Alor

The remote and unspoiled islands of Adunara, Lembata, Pantar, and Alor are East of Flores. They are probably one of Indonesias best-kept diving secrets. From incredible muck dive sites to impressive walls, crystal clear water to black volcanic sand sites, into stronger currents with thousands of reef fish. The Indonesian government has recently agreed to protect the area in order to secure a safe route for migrating cetaceans which pass through the straits on their migration to the feeding grounds in the deep waters of the Banda Sea.

• Adunara Island. Eastern Flores has some famous dive sites such as Magic Log where ribbon eels and frogfish are common. The very rare weedy scorpionfish (Rhinopias) has been found here, as has the wonderpus octopus. There is still a lot of unchartered territories to discover in this region.
• Lembata Island. Is also well worth diving exploration. Schools of fusiliers, angelfish and many different parrotfish species are common. Gorgonian sea fans, host pygmy seahorses. Surrounding seas of Lamalera could also hold cetacean surprises.
• Alor. Dive spot-names like The Bullet give some hints what diving in Alor is like: big staff and currents, which are sometimes so strong that you have to pay attention.
• As the direction and intensity of the currents change quite often, you may have had a relaxing dive in the morning and find the same spot in the afternoon resembling a washing machine.
• The strait between Pantar and Alor acts like a gigantic jet propelling waters from the Flores Sea in the north to the Savu Sea in the south. You will only find similar conditions around Komodo.

Dive Overview

Raja Ampat cruises allow you to explore the most biodiverse waters on the planet, breath-taking panorama, diving pristine, remote and sometimes unknown sites with all the comforts of a luxury liveaboard safari.

Komodo is a wonderful action-packed destination. Think of schools of fish, mantas, sharks, and trekking to Komodo National Park with a ranger to see the world famous Komodo dragons in action or, better, to meet wild dragon along the Rinca shore

Some trips will take you more remote places like Cenderawasih Bay or Triton Bay to see whale sharks or, the Banda Sea for hammerheads.

Forgotten Islands

This one of Tiare's more remote destinations where time seems to stand still. The Forgotten islands are part of the Maluku Tenggara which is a 1.000 km chain of archipelagos running from East Timor to Western Papua. Undeveloped, distant from population centers and far off any beaten path, these Forgotten Islands have been largely isolated from the rest of the world. If you dont like to run into any other liveaboard cruise you could imagine yourself as the only person in the world on one of the old trade ships. Then this is the route for you. We will be diving some unexplored reefs. But also visit an area where we have spotted hammerhead schooling. Ever seen an active volcano? We can guarantee you an explosion. We like to hang around for the sun to set, so we can see the red-hot lava roll down the slope into the water.

Tiare plans four expeditions each year in November/April. One itinerary starts in Maumere (Flores) and ends in Saumlaki, in the Tanimbar Islands, and another trip returns along the same or a similar route. Detailed itineraries in this area may be subject to change according to weather and diving conditions and other factors.

Dive Overview

Raja Ampat cruises allow you to explore the most biodiverse waters on the planet, breath-taking panorama, diving pristine, remote and sometimes unknown sites with all the comforts of a luxury liveaboard safari.

Komodo is a wonderful action-packed destination. Think of schools of fish, mantas, sharks, and trekking to Komodo National Park with a ranger to see the world famous Komodo dragons in action or, better, to meet wild dragon along the Rinca shore

Some trips will take you more remote places like Cenderawasih Bay or Triton Bay to see whale sharks or, the Banda Sea for hammerheads.

Halmahera

Halmahera is situated exactly between Lembeh Strait and the Raja Ampat islands, in the center of the Coral Triangle. With easy diving along steep drop-offs to lovely shallow coral gardens, dive the untouched reefs of Halmahera, and you will see everything from pygmy seahorses, turtles, giant groupers, sharks to schooling fish; caverns and schools of fish, coral-covered slopes, perfect shallow reef tops, bays with seahorses and other critters, pinnacles, reefs, and uninhabited islands!

The coral experts have already recorded 450 species, which is more than half of the corals in the world (56 percent) and 75 percent of all the corals ever recorded around Halmahera alone! And this was done in a brief survey, not an extensive one.