What is a Live-aboard diving trip?

Dive!

If you are planning your next dive holiday and you’re not sure where to go or what to do, then consider going on a Live-aboard diving trip. It doesn’t matter if you have 10 or 500 dives under your weight belt, anyone that loves to dive and relax will absolutely love to relax on board of a Dive vessel.

Live-aboard diving trips are quickly becoming one of the most popular ways of comfortably experiencing diving in locations around the world. Live-aboard vessels are exactly that, live on board and you’re eating and breathing diving. Everything is focused on diving. You eat, sleep, dive whenever your computer says, “GO”, and you’ll travel from dive site to dive site, seeing the most beautiful places in the world. Live-aboard can offer dive sites usually hard to reach by daily diving boats, making it interesting to visit remote islands or reefs.

Eat!

Live-aboard dive vessels give you a wider range of destinations than day trips. Live-aboard vessels typically range from 18m/60ft to 40m/120 ft in length or larger and offer the ability to cover a wide and extended diving range as opposed to a day charter, which returns to dock each night. If you’re into large crowds or you like solitude and tranquility, you don’t have to worry. There is a vessel for everyone’s needs.

Trip lengths of live-a board vacations typically range from three to ten or more days. Most vessels depart the dock in the afternoon or evening, as the distances involved usually require overnight travel. When you awake in the morning, you’re on that breathtaking location and diving commences.

Sleep!

Most live- aboard vacations are designed to serve all of your diving needs, as well to provide you a high level of comfort while on board. Live-aboard vacations cater to their customers by providing excellent, gourmet meals and snacks, clean and comfortable sleeping quarters, TVs and DVD/VCR players for an evening of movie watching, plenty of hot water showers, photo/video stations for equipment and editing, tanks with air or Nitrox and weights for every dive, plenty of professional crew members to guarantee your comfort. Live-aboard diving trips are about diving and there is no shortage of that. Typically, depending on where you’re diving, you can get up to 5 dives a day if you’re up to it. The average is 3-4 dives per day. Liveaboard dive trips are about relaxing as well. Many vessels have lounging decks to work on your suntan, read, or simply catch up on your sleep if you are escaping a stressful job. Whether you want to make only two dives per day, eat heartily, and relax, or make six or more dives a day and pass out in your cabin from exhaustion and get up the next day and do it again, Liveaboard trips can accommodate.

Khao Lak Scuba Adventures offers 4-day/4-night live-aboard trips to the Similan Islands, Koh Bon, Koh Tachai and Richelieu Rock between October 15 and May 15 every year. Our fleet consists of the M/V Manta Queen I, M/V Manta Queen II and M/V Manta Queen III. To see the various features of each and decide which is right for you please see our web site or send email to bee@khaolakscubaadventures.com
                                                                           Story by: Simine Reymenants
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