Seahorse Itinerary
Halmahera - Raja Ampat (TTE - SOQ) 11N12 days / 11 nights
About Seahorse
- Spacious and recently-remodelled interiors with plenty of room for relaxation
- Exciting seasonal itineraries featuring Indonesia’s best diving
- Tons of complimentary extras including WiFi, nitrox, and watersports
- Excellent facilities for photographers with rinse bins, a camera room, and plenty of charging points
Part of the renowned Wallacea Dive Cruises family, the MSY Seahorse liveaboard is a traditional Indonesian phinisi, recently renovated specifically for scuba diving. This liveaboard offers itineraries in some of Indonesia's most incredible regions, including Raja Ampat, Komodo, the Banda Sea, Halmahera, and even the Togian Islands! Whether this is your first dive safari or your hundredth, you’re sure to love this boat's dive and camera facilities and excellent service, as well as internet, nitrox, and on-demand watersports equipment.
Itinerary details
Highlights
- One-way trip combining remote Halmahera with Raja Ampat
- Encounter both reef and oceanic manta rays
- Dive the well-known and action-packed Dampier Strait
- Search for Pontoh's pygmy seahorse at Mioskon
- Explore the swim-throughs and caves of Goa Farondi
- Check the blue in Pisang Island for tuna or mackerel
- Dive the pelagic walls of Bacan
- Dive the rarely visited islands of Pantinti Strait
- Enjoy scheduled excursions to villages, beaches and lagoons
Starting from Ternate, we will head south, passing near the islands of Tidore, Moti, and Makian, all of which are spectacular cone-shaped volcanic islands. After a first night, we will dive for 2 days in the area of the Goraichi islands. Seamounts and rocky islets form the dive sites, attracting a great deal of marine life.
Going South we will reach the north part of the Patienti strait between Halmahera and Bacan island. The 2 islands of Saleh and Kusu, plus some other smaller ones, partially close the strait, forcing the water between the islands with currents bringing a lot of life. After a night navigation, we stop at Pulau Pisang in the Maluku Sea on our way to Misool. Great dive sites with a mix of ridges, slopes, small walls and plateaus with plenty of fish and colorful coral reefs.
We spend the last four days in Misool, in the south of Raja Ampat National Park. We will visit the most iconic spots of Misool: Daram, Fiabacet, Wayil and the Boo area, where all the most fantastic dive sites await you. Misool is excellent for taking wide-angle shots and encounters with mantas and massive schools of fish. The abundance of sea life, both fixed fauna such as corals and gorgonians along the lush reef, as well as the stunning quantity and diversity of fish swimming above, is just astonishing.
On the penultimate day, after our last dive, we will start our navigation back to Sorong.
Transfer details
Departure
01:00pm
Ternate
Ternate Airport: TTE
Return
11:00am
Sorong
Sorong Airport: SOQ
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