Liveaboard diving trips

MC Stingray is a 23-metre custom-built dive catamaran that stays out at the Similan Islands, Koh Bon, Koh Tachai and Richelieu Rock all season. You reach her by speedboat from Tap Lamu pier in Khao Lak and choose how many nights to stay. Overnight guests join the day trip dives and also get exclusive early morning and night dives, for up to four one-hour dives a day. Only 8 overnight guests in 4 en-suite cabins with bunk beds, a wide dive deck and a large covered sun deck.

MV Marco Polo is Sea Bees' own 23-metre liveaboard, fully renovated and now taking only 12 guests in 6 identical air-conditioned cabins, all with a private bathroom. She leaves Tap Lamu pier in Khao Lak in the evening on 4 and 5 night cruises to the Similan Islands, Koh Bon, Koh Tachai and Richelieu Rock, with a full day at Richelieu Rock and a last dive at the Boonsung Wreck. Up to four dives a day including night dives, free nitrox, dive groups of up to four divers per guide and a crew that many guests come back to year after year.

M/Y Golden Dolphin I is the boat Golden Dolphin Safari World started with. Built in 2003, refurbished in 2007 and extended in 2014 and 2025, she is a 36 metre liveaboard designed for divers, from the large dive platform to the two sun decks. She takes up to 20 guests in 10 air conditioned cabins with private bathroom and minibar: eight twin cabins on the lower deck and two queen bed suites on the upper deck. On board there is a spacious air conditioned salon and dining area with a media system, free Nitrox up to 32 percent and a family atmosphere.

M/Y Golden Dolphin IV is a 46 metre liveaboard that made her first trip in September 2021. She takes up to 28 guests in 14 air conditioned cabins on the lower, main and upper decks, each with its own bathroom with separate shower and a minibar: four double bed cabins and ten twin bed cabins. The dining area is on the lower deck, there are two air conditioned salons on the main and upper decks, three bars and a jacuzzi on the sun deck. Nitrox up to 32 percent is free for certified divers, and she carries a defibrillator and two zodiacs with ladders.

M/Y Golden Imperial is a 43.5 metre diving safari yacht built in 2021 and extended in 2026. She takes up to 28 guests in 14 air conditioned cabins with private bathroom and TV, spread over the lower, main and upper decks, with double and twin bed layouts. The dive deck and platform give divers plenty of space to prepare, a separate air conditioned dining room seats all 28 guests on the lower deck, and the huge salon with media system, the sun deck and the fly deck are made for relaxing between dives. Nitrox up to 32 percent is free for certified divers.

Navis 1 is a twin hulled catamaran, 23 metres long and 13 metres wide, running dive safaris out of Coron in Palawan. She takes 18 guests in 9 air conditioned cabins, five twin shared and four double, all with a large window and an en-suite bathroom with a hot shower. On board there is a camera room, an indoor lounge, a large open air dining area and a huge roof deck with a fully stocked bar, plus Starlink high speed internet. Her routes cover the WWII wrecks of Coron, the freshwater Barracuda Lake, the dugongs of Calauit Island and Apo Reef.

M/Y Stella Maris Explorer is an aluminium hulled twin screw dive cruiser running scheduled trips from Puerto Princesa to the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the middle of the Sulu Sea, plus transition cruises that combine Tubbataha with Apo Reef. She has 10 air conditioned cabins, all with en-suite toilet and bath and memory foam beds, a lounge with an entertainment centre, a 20 sqm sun deck bar with a jacuzzi, and four open rinse showers on deck. Nitrox and Starlink Wi-Fi are included in the price.

M/Y Gypsy is an 80 ft motor yacht running boutique diving trips in the Philippines from Dauin in Negros Oriental. Built in 2012 and completely refitted in 2021 by Dutch boatbuilder Frank van der Linde with interior designer Simone Schuil, she carries only 8 guests in 4 en-suite cabins across more than 250 m2 of space on three decks. Seakeeper gyro stabilisers cut boat roll by 95 percent, and her itineraries run from the UNESCO World Heritage reefs of Tubbataha to the thresher sharks of Malapascua and the walls of Bohol.

M/V Seadoors is a 27 metre steel vessel built for scuba diving and underwater photography, running diving cruises in the Philippines from Cebu Yacht Club and Puerto Princesa. She takes a maximum of 16 guests in 8 air conditioned cabins, all with a double bed, a single bed and a private bathroom with hot water. The boat is Nitrox and rebreather friendly, with two compressors, a Nitrox blender, an oxygen booster and two ISC Megalodon rebreathers, and her itineraries cover the Visayas, the Sulu Sea and the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park.

Sindalahs Yacht is a 38-metre luxury liveaboard sailing from Hurghada on week-long dive safaris to the best of the Egyptian Red Sea: the SS Thistlegorm and Abu Nuhas wrecks, Ras Mohammed and Tiran in the north, the Brothers, Daedalus and Elphinstone offshore, and St. Johns and Fury Shoal in the deep south. She takes 28 guests in 14 air-conditioned cabins with en-suite bathrooms, including two suites, with a grand saloon, restaurant, bar, sun deck and sky deck. Up to three guided dives a day, nitrox on request and a dedicated camera station.