The Maldives Seafari Explorer liveaboard – Overall review rating 9.0 out of 10 and 4.5 stars
If you’re set on scuba diving the Maldives, your next decision is whether you do resort based diving vs scuba dive from a liveaboard. But as you’re reading this Seafari Explorer liveaboard review, it’s possibly safe to assume you intend to dive from a liveaboard.
Maldives Seafari Explorer liveaboard review: A review of the Maldives Seafari Explorer liveaboard reveals a 38 metre (125 feet) custom-built boat for scuba divers. Sleeps 22 divers over 12 cabins with en-suites + air-con. Western + local food served buffet style indoors or alfresco with an air-con saloon + bar. Dive trips of 8 days 7 nights to 11 days 10 nights.
With the chance to see whale sharks and other sharks, manta rays, eagle rays, turtles wrecks and much much more.
The best way to dive the Maldives is by a scuba diving liveaboard. You can check the latest and best deals on Maldives liveaboards using the following window:
Features of Maldives Seafari Explorer liveaboard
The features that are included with your stay on the Maldives Seafari Explorer liveaboard are as follows:
- The Maldives Seafari Explorer liveaboard is 38 metres (125 feet) in length.
- Designed for up to 22 divers across 12 luxurious cabins.
- Cabins have private en-suite bathrooms and air conditioning.
- Warm water showers.
- A sun deck for those sun-worshippers who like to relax and enjoy sunbathing in-between dives.
- Food includes western and local style food and is served buffet fashion both indoors or outside alfresco style with free soft drinks.
- Specific dietary requirements can be catered for.
- Non-diver friendly for snorkeling.
- Indoor air conditioned saloon with bar.
- Scuba diving facilities include: DIN adaptors, free nitrox available and equipment and scuba gear rentals.
- Camera room with table and charging point for your underwater camera and a separate rinse area.
- Free internet.
- Other activities on board include kayaks and stand up paddleboard.
- Jacuzzi/hot tub on board.
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Maldives Seafari Explorer scuba diving review
The diving from the Maldives Seafari Explorer liveaboard has a good review rating and she was custom-built for scuba diving.
On this scuba diving liveaboard, you’ll be in the hands of experienced and professional crew.
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Table of Maldives liveaboards
This list of Maldives liveaboards is in descending customer rating order, followed by Scuba Diving Luxury Rating (SDE Lux Rating, see below), so the liveaboards with the highest customer rating and the best SDE lux rating will be at the top of the list. If you want to change the list order, use the “Sort by” dropdown below.
Discover Liveaboard | Customer Rating | SDE Lux Rating % | Flexible Booking | Dive Courses | Dietary Requirements | Nitrox | Gear Rental | |
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Review: MV Iruvai; Book: MV Iruvai | 10 | 71% | NO | NO | YES | YES | YES | |
Review: Pearl 111; Book: Pearl 111 | 9.8 | 62% | NO | NO | YES | NO | YES | |
Review: White Pearl; Book: White Pearl | 9.6 | 88% | NO | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
Review: MV Scubaspa Yang; Book: MV Scubaspa Yang | 9.6 | 87% | NO | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
Review: Sea Farer Dhoni; Book: Sea Farer Dhoni | 9.6 | 42% | NO | NO | YES | NO | NO | |
Review: MV Scubaspa Yin; Book: MV Scubaspa Yin | 9.5 | 87% | NO | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
Review: Ocean One; Book: Ocean One | 9.5 | 75% | NO | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
Review: Top Class Cruising - Sachika; Book: Top Class Cruising - Sachika | 9.4 | 83% | NO | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
Review: MY Princess Dhonkamana; Book: MY Princess Dhonkamana | 9.4 | 79% | NO | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
Review: MV Blue Force One; Book: MV Blue Force One | 9.4 | 62% | NO | YES | YES | YES | YES |
The Scuba Diving Earth Luxury Rating (SDE Lux Rating) is explained on each liveaboard review when you click the “Discover Liveaboard” link, and is my own Liveaboard Luxury Rating I’ve assigned to all liveaboards. Choosing between liveaboards is helped by customer scores, and if you get stuck choosing between two or three liveaboards, where each one has a high customer score out of 10, you can use the SDE Luxury Rating to help narrow down your choice.
Think about it like using Booking.com when searching for the best hotel. Booking.com also use a customer score where each customer rates hotels out of 10. This is similar to the liveaboard customer rating, which is also rated out of 10. But let’s say you only like to stay in hotels rated 8 and above on Booking.com, but you also want the hotel to have WIFI or parking, or to have a swimming pool etc. The features each hotel has is usually secondary to the score out of 10.
Scuba diving options on the Maldives Seafari Explorer liveaboard:
Examples of the dive itineraries on the Seafari Explorer liveaboard.
- The Central Atolls: North Male, Ari, Vaavu and South Male Cruise 7 nights – 8 days 7 nights trip. Approx. 15 dives in total. Advanced Open Water certification – 50 minimum logged dives required.
- The Central & South Atolls: Male, Vaavu, Meemu, Ari South – 11 days 10 nights trip. Approx. 22 dives in total. Advanced Open Water certification – 50 minimum logged dives required.
- North Atolls of Maldives – 8 days 7 nights trip. Approx. 14 dives in total. Advanced Open Water certification – 50 minimum logged dives required.
Some of the diving in the Maldives are deep dives and up to 30 metres (98 feet), with currents so are drift dives and there are night dives too.
On most of these trips divers will see a variety of marine life. This includes nudibranchs, Napoleon Wrasse, moray eels, large schools of reef fish, eagle rays, various shark species including grey reef and white tip sharks, turtles, manta rays and whale sharks.
You will also get the opportunity on some trips to dive some of the most beautiful shipwrecks too.
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Maldives Seafari Explorer liveaboard review by customers
Scuba divers that have stayed on the Maldives Seafari Explorer liveaboard review comments include:
- Good budget safari;*
- Good value for money;
- Amazing week on board of a nice boat with a hospitable team!
- Diving was organized very well, especially night diving with Mantas and the other one with nuse sharks;
- I would recommend it to everyone;
- Very nice cabin and great dive sites an guide!
- The dive sites are awesome and the crew is well organized;
* Talking about a “good budget safari“, you may like to also read this article about Red Sea diving safaris too. The Red Sea has some of the best dive sites in the world, and yet the diving is still relatively cheap.
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Here’s a review by a customer who rated the Maldives Seafari Explorer liveaboard 10 out of 10 and 5 stars:
Amazing week on board of a nice boat with a hospitable team! “Diving was organized very well, especially night diving with Mantas and the other one with nuse sharks. The boat is comfortable, the cabins are roomy. There’s even a bathtube and separate shower in th bathroom.” Recommended for: Mantas, night diving with Mantas and with nurse sharks.
Tigran M, Russia
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