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Trip Reports

Award-Winning Liveaboard Diving in Indonesia

Mermaid Liveaboards Honoured in the PADI Readers’ Choice Awards Choosing a liveaboard is a big decision, especially if it’s your first dive trip to Indonesia. That’s why we’re proud that our guests keep recognizing Mermaid Liveaboards in the Readers’ Choice Awards. The votes come from real experiences on board. Once again, we are proud to […]

Komodo: One Big Highlight

 Where to even begin when the whole trip is just one big highlight? Pleasant weather conditions, marine life overload and surprising encounters. Strong currents in the right places and no currents where there shouldn’t be any. Saleh Bay welcomed us with a long interaction with 3 whale sharks feeding underneath a bagan – traditional […]

Diving Cruise with Mermaid I , Komodo June 1 – 10 2018 Highlights

Mermaid I, Diving Cruise at Komodo June 1 – 10, 2018 Marcelo Johan Ogata

Manta Traffic

Manta rays are a very intelligent animal. They have large brains and when you have a one on one encounter with the one you can see that it is analyzing you trying to make out just what you are. Over the years I’ve tried different techniques to make them feel more at ease in hopes […]

The Smallest Sea Dragon and the largest Komodo Dragon

Mermaid I started the Komodo season on fire. When you start day 1 with a Lembeh Sea Dragon and finish the trip off with a Blue-ringed octopus you know a trip like this will be hard to beat! Hairy frogfish, multiple Flamboyants spotted during our muck dives and uncountable Long arms octopuses found on the […]

Take a Moment

In Komodo, it’s easy to get caught up in the hunt for your most desired critters. The reefs are teeming with life from large pelagics like reef mantas to the tiniest of tiny creatures like pygmy seahorses, and everyone who comes to dive Komodo typically has a bucket list of things to see. While there […]

Unforgettable Diving Experience!

Mermaid II’s most recent trip through Komodo, and second of the season, was absolutely outstanding.  Our first day of the trip in Moyo Island and the extinct volcano Satonda yielded great schools of longfin bannerfish, fusileers, as well as black tip and white tip reef sharks. Drifting over the rich volcanic black sand on our […]

BACK IN KOMODO!

After nearly eight months in Raja Ampat, Ambon, Lembeh Strait and the Banda Sea, Mermaid 1 is now back in Komodo for even more adventures! Wonderful conditions throughout this trip made it a particularly enjoyable one. Add great sightings, both underwater and topside, and you’ll end up with a remarkable 10 days! Starting in the […]

Mermaid II’s Epic Crossing

The crossing is undoubtedly the most amazing diving trip you could ever do in Asia, and some might argue the world. Where else can you spend sixteen days on a beautiful boat, Mermaid II, diving the most remote and pristine reefs, walls, and pinnacles available available in what the scientists have proven to be the […]

Season Come and Season Go

It’s that time of year again, where the final trip for the Raja Ampat season is finished and we must make The Crossing  through the Banda Sea and into Komodo.  Before I get ahead of myself though I’d just like to reflect back to my five most favorite moments or encounters of this past Raja […]