Sea Safari VI Liveaboard

Arrive in Sorong at the newly built Dominique Edward Osok airport. Our representative will be waiting outside the arrival hall and ready to escort you to the ship for immediate boarding. Our Safety Briefing, Safety DVD, Crew Introduction, Necessary Dive Paperwork, Cabin allocation and ship orientation will take place before departing from Sorong Harbour. During the journey to our first dive site take this opportunity to familiarise yourselves with the vessel and make yourself comfortable.

Dive : Check Dive at Black Rock or Yum Slope

Melissa’s Garden, Barracuda Reef, Galaxy, Anita’s Garden. All of these dive sites offer world class diving, fantastic corals and a huge amount of fish. Because the substrate at Melissa’s Garden is exceedingly delicate, absolute attention to good buoyancy is required. Also this is a good chance to trek to one of the most famous view points in the region.

Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive + trekking.

Meyhem, Citrus Ridge, Gam Ridge, and Mangroves. This area offers some truly unique environments to dive in. The vibrant orange soft corals of Citrus Ridge provide a stunning backdrop to this site, home to barracudas, bumphead parrot fish and sea snakes are common here. Meyhem offers schools of bat fish, surgeon fish and snappers with the occasional wobbegong sleeping under the coral heads. Gam Ridge is a good place to spot Eagle and Mobula rays. The Mangroves offer some stunning photo opportunities, diving late in the day around 4pm when the sun is low in the sky gives some stunning shafts of light in the mangrove shallows.

Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive

Manta Sandy, Manta Ridge, Arborek Island & Jetty. Manta Sandy and Manta Ridge are two of the most reliable manta congregation spots in the Dampier Strait. Here you can look at the majestic animals somersaulting through the water while they are cleaned by several species of wrasse and even butterflyfish. The Jetty at Airborek offers unique photo opportunities of the long wooden pillars covered with soft corals and sea fans, if you’re lucky the local kids will be at play, jumping in the water eager to get on your photo reel. Arborek Jetty offers one of the best night dives in Raja Ampat where blue ring octopus, harlequin shrimp and wobbegong are often seen.

Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive

Mikes Point, Sardine Reef, Mioskon and Friwinbondan. Before dive activities begin we have an early rise, we go in search of the Red Bird of Paradise at Sawingkrai Village on Gam. We then continue to Mike’s Point. Schooling sweetlips, patrolling black tip reef sharks and interesting macro subjects such as small octopus and shrimp thrive in these craggy coral niches. Sardine Reef. Actually sardines are not found at this site but you won’t miss them.

Fusiliers, surgeonfish, trevally, rainbow runners, sweetlips and bannerfish crowd the open water and swarm over a reef decorated with sea fans. Mioskon Reef is home to hundreds of lined snappers that usually cover the slope, schools of glass fish hide in coral bommies and wobbegongs are very common here. Friwinbondan offers an good night dive with nudibranchs, many shrimps and if you’re lucky a walking shark (Epaulette shark)

Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive + trekking

Cape Kri, Cape Mansuar, Located in the Dampier Strait on Mansuar & Kri Islands. This site is one of the top dives in Raja. Cape Kri is recorded as having the most fish species counted on a single dive. Cape Mansuar is not far behind with large schools of barracuda, surgeonfish, bumphead parrotfish and many friendly turtles. A perfect way to end your trip.

Dive : 2 morning dives

After breakfast, prepare for disembarkation. Be ready to leave the boat and you will be transferred to Sorong Airport. Your diving journey has ended and we shall look forward to welcoming you on board again.

Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics and local regulations.

Arrive at Sorong airport. Our representative will be waiting outside the arrival hall and ready to escort you to the ship for immediate boarding. Cabin allocation and ship orientation will take place before departure. Take this opportunity to familiarise yourselves with the vessel, make yourself comfortable.

Whale rock is the westernmost dive area of the Fiabacet chain, arguably the most beautiful tropical reef system on the planet. Especially when viewed from the south, the largest Fiabacet island looks like a caricature of an enormous whale floating at the surface. This is also the best opportunity to observe interesting juvenile fish, nudibranch and other invertebrates. In the Middle of the Fiabacet,

The submerged east point of Nudi rock is undoubtedly one of the top dives in Raja Ampat. Here you can watch colonies of Convict Blennies huddle around sea fans while large Green and Hawksbill Turtles glide through the blue. Myriad species of soft coral and sea fans cascade down the slope and smaller animals like Decorator Crabs and Cleaner Shrimp abound.

We will spend our day exploring Boo rock and Boo Point east, where we can see large Napoleon Wrasse and Green Turtles . Boo rock is best known for the ‘’windows’’ or rounded openings on the southern end of the largest rock that completely pierce the reef from the surface down to about five metres. Although the two rocks appear separate from the surface, they are connected underwater by a magnificent reef draped in soft corals and brimming with fish.

To the west side of Farondi we will go through the sea tunnel and then exit on Farondi’s wall. Continue the descent to about 30 metres where the tunnel ends on the wall. There is a cave about 15 metres deep. Explore the wall and floor of the cave for interesting invertebrates like crabs, flatworms and sea spiders.

Melissa’s Garden, Barracuda Reef, Galaxy, Anita’s Garden. All of these dive sites offer world class diving, fantastic corals and a huge amount of fish. Because the substrate at Melissa’s Garden is exceedingly delicate, absolute attention to good buoyancy is required. Also this is a good chance to trek to one of the most famous view points in the region.

There is a place called Manta point in the supernal Arborek Dampier straits, where you can dive and be accompanied by several tame manta rays.

Explore Mios Kon reefs, our campsite island reefs. A slope ranging from 1 – 30 meters with abundant coral growth, these reefs have become home for many different kinds of fish.

Welcome to Kri Island. Kri is a great start for the cruise with the most fish and coral species accounted for on a single dive site. The reefs in this area are protected by Max Ammer from the Papua Diving Resort. Truly pristine reefs, you will want to dive these sites around this island again and again.

After breakfast, prepare for disembarkation. Be ready to leave the boat and you will be transferred to Sorong Airport for your next destination. Your diving journey has ended and we shall look forward to welcoming you aboard again.