Samambaia Liveaboard

Arrival with the plane to Sorong. You will be picked up by crew members at the airport.

After an initial general dive briefing, we will do our check dive with you at an easy and protected dive site. Check dive in the sense of you checking your gear and weights, making sure the camera housings are properly sealed and our guides checking your buoyancy. No skill demonstrations are required. Thereafter we will do two more dives around Wagmab and Farondi. We’ve got a wide array of sites to pick from. There are five dive sites commonly dived, add our secret spots and you get to ten.

You can expect impressive soft coral growth, big sea fans, a huge swim through, a cavern and a superb macro life. For several months of the season, silversides are abundant and the Mobulas come in to hunt.

This island group is one of our favourite areas to dive in SE Misool. Since 2010 declared as the second no-take zone in the area the marine life here is abundant and most colourful. We will spend the whole day here and offer four world-class dives.

Besides the two popular sites on the island of Yillet, we prefer to dive into the other two sites that hardly anyone knows about. Our favourite here is a pinnacle which is utmost fishy and home to resident grey reef sharks. Towards the end of that dive, we get to a part of the reef where it is not uncommon to find ten different species of nudibranchs in just a few minutes.

In the afternoon our dive guides will show you a pristine wall. On top of that, we often encountered Guitar Sharks in the past. During the dive, our crew will prepare a paradise beach close by for tonight’s beach BBQ.

Barracuda Rock, Wedding Cake and Dunia Kecil are the dive sites which we will spend this day at. In the afternoon we offer a two-hour speedboat ride into hidden coves to let you enjoy the stunning topside of the limestone islands. In the end, we will get to a pristine white sand beach where you can cool off with a little swim.

Right in the heart of the No-Take-Zone. ‘Tank Rock’, ‘Nudi Rock’ & ‘Whale Rock’ are the famous and commonly dived sites here. There are five more dive sites in the very proximity which are as good, if not even better. We prefer to go a bit off the beaten track here. The reefs are covered in soft coral in all colours you can imagine. Surrounded by the most colourful reef fish. More Fusiliers than one could possibly count. Jacks, Trevallies, Barracudas, Sharks.

And if you happen to dive here on a day with bad visibility. Just face the reef. It’s packed with macro life. Several species of Pygmy Seahorses, Nudibranchs, tiny Crustaceans - every niche in these reefs are filled with life.

The swim-through at ‘Boo Windows’ is one of the signature dive sites of SE Misool. The surrounding reef is covered in sea fans. Even bigger sea fans you will see at our second dive here at ‘Hidung Boo’. We combine this impressive day of diving with at least one dive at ‘Magic Mountain’. Being a cleaning station for Oceanic Mantas makes this place truly magical.

On our way back our crew will keep an eye out onto the ocean for you and alert you in time for whale and dolphin encounters. Which are quite common here. As long as you are on the watch out. and we are...