Mermaid Liveaboards II: Epic 1st Raja Ampat Dive Adventure of 2025!

Happy New Year! It’s Mermaid II’s first trip of 2025

Starting the new year by sailing down south towards Misool.  We were immediately greeted by the familiar sight of a kaleidoscope of colourful soft corals that decorates the interesting underwater topography of Misool’s rocky pinnacle, an encounter with a couple of friendly melanistic Reef Manta Rays circling above us, and millions of silversides frantically seeks shelter on the reef while Trevallies hunts them from the blue.

Moving on to the Dampier Strait in the central Raja Ampat, starting off in Yanggefo with excellent conditions around the mangrove ridge, sunshine passes through the mangroves created a stunning view of the bluewater mangroves. We were also treated with a number of encounters with the Wobbegong Sharks, laying motionless under coral bommies, waiting to ambush unsuspecting prey.

Way to start the 2025 diving season!


Christopher Pen

Mermaid II
January 1-10, 2025

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