Date
11-21 February 2025
Duration
10 nights/11 days
Package Cost
Standard room: $4750.00 USD per person (green tax included)
– sleeps 2 pax (1 double bed and 1 single bed)
Superior-Upper Deck: $5095.00 USD per person (green tax included)
– sleeps 2 pax (1 double bed or 2 single beds)
Price Includes
- Up to 27 dives, which is a great offer!!
- 10 nights onboard the luxury Carpe Novo
- One way internal scenic flight
- 3 great buffet meals daily (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), plus dive snacks—the food is fantastic
- A refreshing welcome drink upon arrival
- Unlimited drinking water, coffee, and tea
- 3 dives daily (excluding the day of arrival and the day before departure),
- 1 or 2 night dives (dependent on the length of stay and subject to weather conditions)
- Dive instructors—one guide for a group of 5 pax—are very professional and experts on the local dive sites
- Equipment: Nitrox and normal air tanks (11.5 and 13.5 Aluminum DIN/INT), one SMB per diving couple or buddy team, reef hooks, weights, and belts*
- Transfers (pickup and drop-off from the airport)
Trip Details
Route: Addu – Foammulah – Huvadhoo – Laamu – Thaa – Meemu – Vaavu – South Male – North Malé (9 Atolls, amazing!)
Explore the Maldives’ southern atolls on a carefully curated 10-night dive trip, starting in Addu and heading north to the Central Atolls, including Meemu, Vaavu, and North Malé.
- Addu Atoll: Discover over 30 world-class dive sites, including the historic WWII wreck, HMS British Loyalty and the mesmerising Manta Cleaning Station at Maa Kandu. Encounter manta rays, turtles, sharks, and more year-round.
- Fuvahmulah: Experience thrilling encounters with tiger, silky, silvertip, and thresher sharks, as well as oceanic mantas and other pelagic species in this predator’s playground.
- Huvadhoo: Dive into the deep in the Maldives’ largest atoll, where you can encounter hammerheads, grey reef sharks, and even magnificent whale sharks at channels like Vilingilli, Koodoo, Nilandhoo, and Mareehaa.
- Laamu: Explore dive sites like Isdhoo Muli, Munniyafushi Kandu, and Maabaidhoo Kandu, home to grey reef sharks, hammerheads, tiger sharks, silvertips, and zebra sharks.
- Thaa: Hope to spot gentle giants like the whale shark at night and dive at Dhiyamigili Corner and Olugiri.
- Meemu: Encounter grey reef sharks, silvertips, and majestic mantas. while exploring Gaahuraa Kandu, Bohuraa Kanda, and Kureli Kandu.
- Vaavu: Dive at Alimathi and witness the nurse sharks, along with other sites like Golden.
- Wall, Miyaru Kandu, and Fotteyo Kando.
We are committed to delivering an authentic and respectful nature experience.
Exclusions
- Dive gear rental or dive courses
- Soft drinks and alcoholic beverages
- Dive Insurance (Mandatory)
- Travel insurance (Recommended)
- Wi-Fi (available on board at an additional cost)
- Crew tips
- Onboard and purchases
- International flights to the Maldives
Note: This trip requires divers to have a minimum of 100 dives, Advanced Open Water and to be good swimmers due to mostly medium to strong current and channel dives.
Trip Highlights
- Sharks, sharks, sharks
- Reef Sharks
- Thresher Sharks
- Tiger sharks
- Hammerheads
- Whale Sharks
- Nurse Sharks
- Manta Cleaning Station
- Channel Dives
- Deep Dives
- Current Dives
- Pelagic Encounters
- Beach BBQ
- Night Dive
How to secure your spot
Please note that this trip has limited spots, so you will need to get in quick to secure your booking. The following payments will be required:
$800 USD to secure your spot
20% of the trip invoice due on June 1, 2024
Remaining balance due on November 1, 2024
Payment
HSBC Bank (US Dollars only)
Amanda Delaforce
BSB: 342091
Swift Code: HKBAAU2S
Account Number: 816462439
Receiving Bank Address: Shop 1032, Westfield Hornsby,
236 Pacific Highway, Hornsby NSW 2077 Australia
We will be in touch via email for your payment and provide individual invoices. I would recommend purchasing your flights into Malé (capital) as soon as possible to secure a cheap flight. To check on available spaces to secure your spot, email us at: amanda@amandadelaforce.com.
Getting there
International flight
You are responsible for getting yourself to Malé International Airport (MLE). Please try to arrive by 9:30 am (if arriving on February 11, 2025). You can always stay close to the airport the night before, depending on your international flight options available. We will arrive back in Malé, and you will be transported back to the International Airport.
Internal flight
A short on-way internal flight will be required on February 11, 2025: Malé (MLE) Domestic Terminal to GAN International Airport (Addu Atoll). The one-way flight is included in the vessel package.
*If you would like to arrive a day or two early to Addu, we recommend staying at the Equator Village Hotel. Please contact us for pricing and booking. We will adjust your domestic flight date accordingly.
Tentative Itinerary
Day 1: Board the vessel (Carpe Novo), unpack, and get settled.
Day 2-9: Embark on three exhilarating dives every day. Your diving adventure is complemented by a satisfying spread, including buffet breakfast, lunch, afternoon snacks, and dinner. One beach BBQ and night dive are included in the trip.
Day 10: Taking into account your domestic flight schedule and the cumulative dives completed during the week, the dive team will organize either one or two morning dives. Enjoy your last lunch and dinner with your new dive buddies.
Day 11: At 08:00 am, complete the check-out process as our team accompanies you to either Malé International Airport. Depart with cherished memories and newfound dive companions, marking a lifetime of unforgettable experiences.
ADDITIONAL ADD ON
Fuvahmulah Atoll
When diving in Fuvahmulah, we have the privilege of encountering tiger sharks and other pelagics naturally, and we believe that these encounters provide a more genuine and unaltered experience with these magnificent creatures.
The signature of Fuvahmulah is Tiger Sharks. Fuvahmulah is one of the best destinations you could find for sharks and pelagic. Marine life here is very rich. We have had many pelagic encounters. Encounters depend on currents. Different currents bring different encounters. They are on the Equator, and we have very different ocean conditions from the rest of the Maldives. Whale sharks, mantas, and hammerheads pass Fuvahmulah from time to time. Silvertips they see most days, thresher sharks almost every day. They are residents of the island waters.
Date
8–11 February 2025
Duration
3 nights/4 days
Package Costs
Superior Room: $1415.00 USD per person (double bed)
Deluxe Room: $1390.00 USD per person (twin beds)
Diving
- Includes 6 dives, 3 dives a day.
- One dive for each of the days is at Tiger Zoo.
- Two other dive sites depend on the weather and ocean conditions. It is decided by the leading dive guide a day before or exactly on place.
- After each dive, the diving boat arrives back at the harbour for a break.
- The first two dives during the day finish around noon, and the last dive (3rd dive) during the day finishes around 1530 hours daily.
- They have two comfortable diving boats (dhoani), which can serve 25 and 15 divers at the same time. Both boats are equipped with automatic filling systems.
- They have a big dive team, many dive guides, and an operational crew. The divers are divided into groups with a small ratio.
- They are a 5-star PADI diving centre with IDC accreditation. All courses and many specialities are available. Fuvahmulah is the best place to have shark specialities. There are permanent marine biologists on our team, and they carry out lectures and shark education for the guests during their stay.
- The dive company carries out official government research on tiger sharks and other elasmobranch in Fuvahmulah. Their database includes more than 200 tiger shark individuals, which is a unique and ultimate occasion on our planet.
Accommodation
‘Shark Lounge’ is a guest house around the city centre area that comes with an in-house swimming pool, garden, and open kitchen-bar area. It has a nice, relaxed atmosphere where the group can enjoy time together.
THE VESSEL
Carpe Novo
The MV Carpe Novo is a 42-metre-long (138-foot) motor safari yacht with a wooden hull, three decks, and a sun deck. It is the newest boat in the Carpe Diem fleet, starting operation in 2016. The sun deck, bar on the middle deck, and rest area on the lower deck will spoil you for the next 10 days.
Superior rooms (main deck): each have a king-size bed that can be divided into two super singles, a desk, a dresser, a hanging closet, large windows, individually controlled air conditioning systems, a flat-panel TV/HD player, and a private ensuite bathroom with a shower.
Standard rooms (lower deck): each room provides individually controlled air conditioning, one queen bed and one super single bed, desk/chair, dresser, hanging closet, TV/HD player, portholes, and a private ensuite bathroom with shower.
The electricity voltage onboard is 220V, and international adaptors are available onboard if required.
Departing
Island and Vessel Package
11 February 2025: A speed boat will pick up the group from Fuvahmulah to GAN to meet the Carpe Novo (liveaboard).
Bookings, Payment, Cancellation Policy and Force Majeure in relation to the Tour
TERMS & CONDITIONS
1. Insurance
- Amanda Delaforce Photography and Travel Pty Ltd highly recommends you purchase personal travel and dive insurance as soon as possible after confirming your travel plans. We recommend Dive Assure or DAN for diving insurance. Dive Assure offers a Dive and Travel Insurance annual and short-term (per trip). You can purchase it here.
- Evidence of adequate travel and dive insurance must be provided prior to departure.
- The affiliated and established companies such as ‘Carpe Novo’, hold the relevant insurances and maintain responsibility for the dive and snorkel insurance policies and procedures. As such when in the water diving, snorkeling, or swimming you are doing so under the affiliated company’s policies and procedures and must adhere to either the Captain, Dive Instructor or Divemaster’s instructions.
2. Bookings and payments
- Bookings made more than 100 days out from the start of a trip require a deposit of $800.00 USD per passenger
- All deposits are non-refundable.
- Bookings made less than 100 days out from tour commencement require payment in full to secure your booking.
- Payment in full is required 100 days out from the start of the trip. We will email you a final payment reminder prior to this date.
- Each guest will be required to complete a Dive Trip Questionnaire (which may require a Dive Medical) prior to receiving a final tour confirmation. This must be completed and returned to Amanda Delaforce Travel and Photography Pty Ltd prior to final payment being made. Disclosure of your medical history and known conditions is vital, as well as a review of any other conditions that could impact your trip. Amanda Delaforce Travel and Photography Pty Ltd reserves the right to refuse trip participation on medical grounds based on any falsification or exclusion of pertinent information which impacts the trip program.
3. Amendment and cancellation policy
- The trip cost is 100% non-refundable within 100 days of the departure date. This applies to deposits and/or further payments. No exceptions can be made.
- If you cancel your trip 100 days or more before the trip commencement date, and we/you are able to resell/fill your place, a trip credit for your remaining balance (minus a $300 USD service fee) will be issued for use on another Amanda Delaforce Photography and Travel Pty Ltd trip which departs within 2 years of the cancellation date.
- If you cancel your spot less than 99 days prior to the start of a trip, no refund or credit will be issued for deposits that have been paid.
4. Force Majeure
- If our In-Country Providers cancel or if a Force Majeure Event occurs, meaning any act of God, war, terrorism, fire, flood or any other extreme weather conditions, loss of power, epidemics or pandemics, industrial disputes, slow-downs or other strike activities, riots or civil disturbances, acts of government, semi government or other authorities, inability to obtain any necessary license or consent and delays caused by sub-contractors, suppliers or other third parties (including telecommunications carriers), material shortages or other disruption to the trip beyond our control, Amanda Delaforce Photography and Travel Pty Ltd shall not be held responsible for matters outside of our control or any failure to deliver the trip.
5. Liability and obligation
- Amanda Delaforce Photography and Travel Pty Ltd takes no responsibility for loss, damage or injury arising from any shortfall, error or omission in the information passed to the customer during the course of the booking process or subsequent delivery of the product. The company takes no responsibility nor can it be held liable for loss, damage, or injury that occurs on a supplier’s or service provider’s premises or transport, or between two such premises.
- Participation in any of the Activities involves certain risks which may result in injury or death. This warning does not purport to describe or disclose all risks associated with participation of the Activities. There are a wide range of inherent risks when engaging in sports and particularly underwater sports; for example, with diving there is the risk of decompression sickness, embolism or other hyperbaric injury can occur that requires treatment in a recompression chamber. Open water scuba diving trips may be conducted at sites that are remote, either by time or distance, from emergency services or recompression facilities. Scuba diving and snorkeling tours will involve uncontrolled encounters with wild animals which bear the risk of stings, bites, and at the extreme end, more serious injury and death.
- Participants should be responsible and aware of animal behaviors and their own interactions, and choose to engage in these activities entirely at their own risk.
- We will not be liable to you in respect of any personal injury (including without limitation serious injury or death) that you may suffer or sustain directly or indirectly as a result of participating in the trip or the Activities. Nor shall we be liable to you in respect of any other losses arising as a result of any such personal injury (including without limitation loss of profit or earnings or other consequential losses). We will not be liable to you in respect of any of your personal property that is lost, stolen or damaged before, during or after a trip.
- Please ensure you understand our cancellation policy and agree to the booking and trip conditions prior to providing any deposits. By placing a booking with Amanda Delaforce Photography and Travel Pty Ltd, this implies that you accept these booking terms and conditions and our cancellation policy.
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