Carpe Diem, Maldive

Carpe Diem Delivered!

Highlights were diving was a mass of stingrays, manta rays, and sharks. The brief encounter with a whale shark and dolphins were an additional bonus

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Diving with pelagic sea life, dive guides, food

Excellent experience!

Great trip - tons of mantas, a brief hammerhead sighting, the Thanksgiving dinner, the dive guides' freehand drawing skills of the sites, lovely beach barbecue, great spread of tropical fruits with breakfast. Fantastic crew and customer service. Food was overall 4.5 stars - just a few things were overly salty and the shrimp was somehow always overcooked but everything else was delicious. Company had a rep on board who regularly audits trips to make sure customers are happy and continually improve their product which is great to see. Very nice dive dhoni - super well maintained, clean bathroom, helpful crew ready with a spare o-ring when needed. Would have liked to see dive guides rotate and they had a bit of a challenge managing a pair of divers whose consumption, even on XL tanks, shortened dives so they should have rotated them as well instead of sticking them with the same group! Dive sites also got congested with other boats despite the companies supposedly deconflicting itineraries - it seems the Maldives has hit that point, but would have liked to see the schedule staggered or some other creativity to get us away from congestion. Would go with this company or boat again if we came back to the Maldives!

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Super comfortable (mattress/hot shower/public areas), friendly and helpful crew, very good value

Beautiful sea life with a shark seen on almost every dive, plus whale sharks and mantas!

We had a great experience on this 7-day trip aboard Carpe Diem. The boat is very professionally run, well-designed, well-maintained, and clean. The staff were super friendly, and the food was far better than we expected. We did three dives per day and always saw great dive sites teeming with life. Some highlights were seeing hammerheads, tiger sharks, and countless rays at the tuna factory, swimming with friendly nurse sharks, snorkeling with giant whale sharks covered in remoras, observing many manta rays swooping by, and finding at least four octopuses. Truly a wonderful diving vacation!

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Amazing sea creatures, delicious food, and a lovely boat

Great trip on Carpe Diem

I appreciated the care of the crew, the divers on the boat were very friendly, no drama and no issues, everyone was so supportive of my 11.5 year old son who just started diving. It was a great value for money.

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I loved the friendliness of staff, their knowledge of the sea and the diving, the room that we took on the top floor was massive, which we really enjoyed!

Great 3 star Liveaboard and Trip

It was nice to see the whale shark, but I wonder how stressed it is based on the number of divers in the water, it was a free for all. The Reef mantas were awesome as well as swimming with the nurse sharks. Our Guide was great and all in all a great time. The boat was clean and the staff was friendly.

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Diving locations, Dive Guides. Other Guests.

Breathe Taking Diving

So many, wonderful Manta encounters, a whaleshark off the back of the boat, getting in the water with a school of pilot whales, having a baby eagle ray following us for an entire dive, a gorgeous, huge purple frog fish and my husband finding an Ornate Ghost Pipefish are a few.

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Amazing animal encounters, relaxed dive schedule & knowledgeable dive guides. The service was out standing, there was a problem with a broken spring in our mattress, they flippedbit to make it manageable and within 48 hours had a new one delivered to the boat!