Seaisee Itinerary
Komodo - Bali 7N8 days / 7 nights
About Seaisee
- Explore Indonesia's remote regions onboard a luxury liveaboard
- First-class scuba facilities including a spacious dive deck and camera room
- This vessel is able to accommodate sidemount and rebreather diving
- Choice of cabins including a sea view suite with an open-air Jacuzzi
Seaisee liveaboard is a recently-renovated luxury motor yacht offering exceptional dive cruises throughout Indonesia - from Bali and Komodo to the Banda Sea and Raja Ampat. At 45-metres long, this stylish four-decked vessel is about as spacious as they come, with wide walkways, open communal spaces, and plenty of space for a few extra first-class facilities. Above the waves, travellers will appreciate Seaisee’s luxurious sea view cabins and amenities including a Jacuzzi. And, when it comes to diving, this liveaboard’s impressive facilities are ideal for beginners or experienced divers alike, with a convenient camera room and opportunities for sidemount and rebreather diving.
Itinerary details
Length of trip 8 days / 7 nights
Number of dives Up to 20
Experience Open Water - Minimum 10 dives
Insurance Required
Highlights
- One-way trip from Komodo to Bali, hitting all the highlights en-route
- Dive or snorkel with groups of manta rays in Komodo National Park
- See big fish at Tatawa Kecil or the infamous “Current City” of Batu Bolong
- Enjoy the unforgettable drift dive site at Siaba Kecil
- Find fairytale underwater formations full of colourful fish at Castle Rock
- Night dives included in the itinerary
Day 1:
Pick up by staff at the airport or hotel and transfer to the boat. Check-in between 08:00 - 15:00. Meet the crew and listen to the welcome briefing. According to the sea situation, we may do a check-dive after departure in the afternoon.
Days 2-5:
Dive sites we visit include but are not limited to:
Rinca Island - Padar Bay
- Dragon Besar/ Wainilu: Hidden amongst the rubble at this shallow site, divers can find mandarin fish and picturesque dragonets as well as frogfish, pipefish, and pygmy cuttlefish. We dive at sunset to observe the mandarin fish as they “flutter” up from their rubble home to mate.
- Tiga Dara / Three Sisters: This site is formed of 3 pinnacles rising up very close to one another. Covered with soft corals, each pinnacle is a haven for macro creatures including frogfish and nudibranchs. The shallowest point is at 3m and is ideal for resting during safety stops.
- Secret Garden: This sloping reef is another superb night dive spot with plenty of crustaceans, mollusks, and benthic fish to be found.
Manta Alley
Channels form in the rocky reef wall and it is here we can hook in and watch graceful manta rays gliding about in the current, being cleaned. They make it look so easy, however strong currents can persist at this site. Guests are advised to bring reef hooks. Surgeonfish and triggerfish as well as schools of jacks can all be seen here as well. Certainly, the mantas steal the show when they are in town, with up to 30 being seen, though groups of 5 or 6 are more common. Pink Beach A shallow sheltered reef that is perfect for a night dive with superb macro sightings from flamboyant cuttlefish, hairy frogfish, octopus, and bobtail squid to the barely skeleton shrimp, Pegasus sea moths, crocodile fish, and snake eels. Guests will have the opportunity to venture ashore on Komodo Island to take a guided walk with the rangers through “Komodo Dragon Territory”.
Gili Lawa Laut
- Castle Rock: Currents sweep by this offshore pinnacle in Gili Lawa Laut and white tip reef sharks and trevally can be seen corralling the neon fusiliers. Schools of surgeon fish swarm over the corals and large barrel sponges, whilst huge Napoleon wrasses take an inquisitive look at the divers.
- Crystal Rock: Next to Castle Rock in the bay, this site has 2 pinnacles both offering superb shark action. Eagle rays are frequent visitors and dolphins have been known to make an appearance. White tip reef sharks are often found resting under table corals and common octopuses put on superb displays allowing the cautious diver to approach. Currents are to be expected.
- Shotgun: Typically a fast-paced drift dive, we spend time in the coral garden with soft corals & sponges, before reaching a deep ravine in the reef and seeing schools of snapper moving in ever tighter formations. After which you can descend into the fish bowl, where manta rays like to hang out before the “shotgun” currents push you over the reef and through the channel to the waiting dinghies. Stay close to your buddy and enjoy the ride!
Sangeang Island
Hot Rocks! A mix of sloping sand and coral formations. At depth, we find gorgonian fans with pygmy seahorses and black coral bushes. There is also a small cave where lobsters can be found. In the shallows, brightly coloured neon anemones “pop” against the dark sand and provide a superb subject for underwater photographers. Bubbles coming from these and in the shallow waters provide a distraction during safety stops.
- The Estuary: Pygmy seahorses can be found clinging to the polyps of sea fans along the reef slope and a stunning hard coral garden is great for finding scorpion fish and leaf fish, whilst the sandy patches in between the reefs are a fantastic place to spot sawblade shrimp and a wide variety of nudibranchs.
- Techno Reef: The dark volcanic sand is dotted with green, orange, and yellow “black” coral bushes and enormous red barrel sponges, home to ghost pipefish, long nose hawkfish, and pink squat lobsters.
Satonda Island
Satonda Island is a small collapsed volcanic cone off the coast of Sumbawa just to the east of Moyo Island. The caldera is filled with water - apparently by a tsunami when a large volcano on nearby Sumbawa blew its top last century. There are several dive sites around Satonda and nearby Sumbawa. The main reef at Satonda is a great dive site, day or night, while the nearby Sumbawa Wall is a classic reef dive.
Moyo Island
Moyo Island is off the northwest coast of Sumbawa. While scuba diving at Moyo Island ensures that you visit one of its many reef diving sites where you can gaze in admiration at untouched corals. Angel Reef boasts healthy hard corals before an abrupt vertical wall, plunging to well over 40 metres. Here you can encounter rounded batfish and impressive schools of red tooth triggerfish. Peep over the drop-off where you’ll often find yellowtail tuna and black-tip reef sharks hunting among the reef. Some lucky visiting divers have even reported whale shark sightings.
- Sea Fan City: Here find yourself humbled by an astounding deep wall dive. Within a large gorgonian sea fans hunt for pygmy seahorses as schools of fusiliers stream past you. Reef sharks are not an unusual sight at this dive site and huge sea turtles often swim up to the surface for a breath of fresh air. Another wall dive site where reef sharks are common is found at the Blue Emocean Reef. On the plateau search for the elusive yellow rings of the blue-ringed octopus before descending onto a wall where squid pulsate at the wall’s edge.
- River Mouth: Journey into River Mouth to inspect the sandy seabed for leaf fish, nudibranchs, and blue-spotted stingrays. In this shallow dive site spend some time watching mesmerising cuttlefish as they adjust the colour of their bodies to match their surroundings. More nudibranchs can be found at the Chinese Wreck. Advanced divers will find themselves descending onto the long-lost vessel which is encrusted with sponges and nudibranchs sitting like dazzling jewels on the boat's steel surface.
Day 7:
The last dive will be on the penultimate day of the trip before 12.00 (midday). Divers are recommended to wait for 24 hours before flying after the last dive.
Day 8:
Check-out from the boat before 12:00. You will be transported to the airport for a domestic flight back or to a local hotel if you are extending their stay.
Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics and local regulations.
Transfer details
Departure
12:00pm
Labuan Bajo
Labuan Bajo Airport: LBJ
Return
11:00am
Bali
Denpasar Airport: DPS
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