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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. Tha...
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...
Omura’s Whale
You never know what you’re going to see in Raja Ampat, either on the surface or below. I’m en...
Where to Start…
Where to start, where to start, where to start. It’s difficult to write a concise summation of...
Legendary Season
It’s the end of the Komodo season, and quite possibly my best season with Mermaid II in Komodo....
Surprises In the Sea
From East Flores to West Papua, 16 days diving walls, reefs, slopes, pinnacles and crossing four...
Diving At The Ring Of Fire
Eastern Indonesia and the area between Bali to Papua is also know as “The Ring of Fire”. Famo...
Ketut Saves the Day
It’s heartbreaking to see such as small beautiful animal like this juvenile hawksbill sea turtl...
From Sea Snakes And Scorpionfish
From Raja Ampat in West Papua to Maumere in East Flores: over 14 days of diving, over 1,000 nauti...
Delectable Anemones
While on our most epic crossing trip, where Mermaid II sails from the notorious Raja Ampat though...
The Right Mix
What I like most about our “special trips” is the diversity of dive sites, marine life and la...
Mountains Of Fire
Our usual Raja Ampat route never gets boring but guests as well as dive crew are even more excite...