Blue Planet 1 Liveaboard – Image courtesy of Liveaboard.com
Choosing the best Red Sea liveaboard is not easy, as there are so many to choose from, but you can’t go wrong with one of the Blue Planet Liveaboards.
Blue Planet Liveaboards own five Red Sea diving safari boats, which include Blue Planet 1, Blue Pearl, Blue Storm, MY Blue and Blue Seas Liveaboard. Their safari boats will take you to wrecks in the north of the Red Sea, Brother Islands and the deep south to St. John’s, Zabargad, and Rocky Island.
The best way to dive the Red Sea, and especially the best and more remote locations in the Red Sea, is by a scuba diving liveaboard. You can check the latest and best deals on Red Sea liveaboards using the following window:
Why Blue Planet Red Sea Diving Safari boats are worth booking
There are a number of reasons why you should book a Red Sea dive trip on one of the Blue Planet Diving Safari boats, as follows:
Highly rated Red Sea dive safari boats, all except one with a score over 9 out of 10.
All have Free nitrox on board, which is great if you want to extend your dive times.
All three Blue Planet Diving Safari boats have great Red Sea scuba diving safari itineraries, which include Rocky Island, the Thistlegorm wreck, the Brothers and Daedalus Reef.
All three offer excellent value for money – Blue Planet Red Sea diving safaris offer great value for money.
All dive boats offer free internet.
All boats cater for couples with double cabins and single or solo divers with twin-share cabins.
The Blue Planet Diving Safari boats are all available for charter, which means you can book the entire boat for a Red Sea diving safari. If you belong to a scuba diving club and can put together 16 to 24 divers depending on which Blue Planet Liveaboard, you can charter any one of the five boats.
You can book with confidence knowing that this liveaboard offers a free trip reschedule within 24 months if you are unable to travel due to Covid-19 related restrictions.
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Free nitrox available
Nitrox onboard means you'll benefit from the many advantages of nitrox divingextended bottom times. Especially important when you enjoy diving and you want to spend as long as possible underwater.
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Nitrox Course
If you are not already Nitrox trained, you can take advantage of the onboard Nitrox course to benefit from Nitrox diving (an extra charge).
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Dietary restrictions catered for
Relax knowing that whatever your dietary requirements, you can enjoy the food onboard, as the Blue Planet Liveaboards will cater for any specific dietary requirement you have.
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En-suite cabins
You benefit from your own private en-suite bathroom so you can shower and get ready in comfort.
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Aircon cabins
You benefit from being able to choose the temperature of your cabin for complete comfort and a good night’s sleep.
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Scuba gear rental
The benefit to you is you can travel light and simply rent all your scuba equipment onboard.
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Includes The Best of the Red Sea diving
You benefit from the best of the Red Sea diving:
1. North/Wreck, which includes: famous wrecks like the Thistlegorm and Rosalie Moller and reefs of of Ras Mohammed and the Straits of Tiran in the Red Sea.
2. Marine Park North diving on the Brothers for the Numidia and the Aida wrecks, Daedalus Reef for hammerheads and Elphinstone for oceanic white tip sharks and hammerheads.
3. Deep south and St. Johns Reef, which offers the best the Red Sea has to offer where you might see hammerheads, tiger sharks, and fox sharks.
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Sun decks
An advantage to those sun-lovers to relax and sun bathe between dives on a sun decks.
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Free internet
If you want to make use of your phone using the FREE Wifi and internet, you can as it's free onboard.
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Scuba diving courses
You benefit from being able to advance your diving skills with onboard scuba diving courses. These courses are an extra charge.
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Available for charter
If you charter the Blue Planet Liveaboards you have more flexibility over the diving and diver numbers (subject to max. diver numbers).
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Din adaptors
If you have DIN regulators you don't have to worry, as they have DIN to Yoke regulator adaptors onboard.
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ENOS Rescue System onboard
ENOS® is an emergency system for divers which supports the search at the surface for missing people. The ENOS®-System consists of two components: one, the ENOS®-Receiver aboard the dive boat and the other, the ENOS®-Transmitters which are carried by the divers during the dive.
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Blue Planet Red Sea Diving Safari itineraries
All five Blue Planet Diving Safari boats dive the following regions of the Red Sea:
8 day 7 night North/Wreck Red Sea diving safari leaving from Hurghada – Includes famous wrecks like the Thistlegorm (see video below) and the Ulysses and reefs of of Ras Mohammed and the Straits of Tiran in the Red Sea.
SS Thistlegorm wreck Egypt HD Video of the famous wreck SS Thistlegorm, Egypt.
8 day 7 night Deep south and St. Johns Reef Red Sea diving safari leaving from Marsa Ghalib – Offers some of the best diving the Red Sea has to offer where you might see hammerheads, tiger sharks, and fox sharks.
Diving St John’s South Red Sea , Colors & Sharks Diving St John’s South Red Sea M/Y Aldebaran MY Blue Pearl Liveaboard – Image courtesy of Liveaboard.com
Scored 10 out of 10 First Time Liveaboard - Exceptional experience "Seeing Dolphins and exploring the thistlegorm. Also making great friends whilst on board as the crew were absolutely fantastic. Everyone on board representing your company did an outstanding job, and I wish them all the very best in future. Hopefully we will meet again!" Recommended for: The Crew, The Diving and the Memories.
Review by Anonymous from the United Kingdom
Scored 10 out of 10 Superb service on a really nice boat "thresher shark" Recommended for: crew, cabins and food.
Review by Beat A from Switzerland
No customer reviews so far
Scored 10 out of 10 Excellent "The M/Y Blue is an upper class and good provisioned vessel with high standard in food and service. My trip was a fantastic experience in diving, food, service as well as a nice group of divers we had, which for sure adds to the overall impression of this great trip. Highly recommendable - will surely come again!" Recommended for: Dive-Spots, Food, Service.
Review by Engin I from Germany
Scored 10 out of 10 Exceeded All Expectations "Everything about this trip was amazing - from the cabins, to the diving, to the crew, and food. The crew went above and beyond to give us a special experience with a great barbeque night and new years party. Food was healthy, delicious, and changed every day. Dive guides were amazing and struck the perfect balance between guiding us and providing autonomy to manage our own dives. Highly recommend!" Recommended for: Great dives and dive guides, friendly and helpful crew that went above and beyond, great food.
Review by Kevin R from Canada
Worst customer review
Scored 8.4 out of 10 1st liveaboard trip "The boat shows its age (oldest boat in their fleet) cabins need to be rehabbed otherwise no other complaints food was plentiful and great, crew was fun and knowledgeable and the diving was fantastic...will be going back." Recommended for: Food,diving, and schedule.
Review by Douglas A from the United States
Scored 7.6 out of 10 Very friendly and helpful local crew "The cleanliness in the cabin has room for improvement. Nevertheless the crew is absolutely friendly and helpful. The diveguides try to avoid very crowded dives by good time planning. The highlights of the marine-life were the face-to-face encounters with the longimanus and the hammerheads at brothers and deadalus.." Very detailed dive-briefings, there is a lot of emphasis on safety and very delicious food.
Review by Jonas S from Switzerland
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Scored 7.6 out of 10 Good diving but with crew and guests only being egypt and german "Nice boat and friendly people. Downside is that they only talked german and egyptian and that people were allowed to smoke all over the boat." Recommended for: Sharks, cabins and good dive master.
Review by Susanne K from Denmark
Scored 6.8 out of 10 Great group of divers "It's nice to dive in the Red Sea for the first time. I saw hummer head, other sharks, and beautiful corals. I also met many great divers (guests) on the board." Recommended for: Crew service, room, and price.
Review by Miyuki I from Japan
Cabins/bathrooms/guests
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Length
27m (89 feet)
36m (118 feet)
40m (131 feet)
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37m (121 feet)
Number of dives
Up to 18
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Food types available
Western and local food served buffet style
Vegetarian options
Western and local food served buffet style
Vegetarian options
Western and local food served buffet style
Vegetarian options
Western and local food served buffet style
Vegetarian options
Western and local food served buffet style
Vegetarian options
The table is packed with information about the key elements to each dive liveaboard, which include:
Customer review rating out of 10.
Price per day in GBP, US Dollar and Euro.
Which ones include flexible booking terms.
Which liveaboards have nitrox on board and which of these include it for free.
Where specific dietary requirements are catered for, including vegan and vegetarian options.
Whether the boat has internet, and if so is it paid for or free.
Max number of guests, number of cabins and bathrooms, plus whether the cabins have air con and ensuites.
Whether the dive liveaboard has dive courses, sidemount diving support, plus if the boat is tech diver or rebreather friendly.
Minimum experience and minimum logged dives required to enjoy the Red Sea diving safari on the particular liveaboard.
Table of liveaboard diving in the Red Sea
This list of Red Sea liveaboards is in descending customer rating order, followed by Scuba Diving Luxury Rating (SDE Lux Rating, see below), so the liveaboards with the highest customer rating and the best SDE lux rating will be at the top of the list. If you want to change the list order, use the “Sort by” dropdown below.
The Scuba Diving Earth Luxury Rating (SDE Lux Rating) is explained on each liveaboard review when you click the “Discover Liveaboard” link, and is my own Liveaboard Luxury Rating I’ve assigned to all liveaboards. Choosing between liveaboards is helped by customer scores, and if you get stuck choosing between two or three liveaboards, where each one has a high customer score out of 10, you can use the SDE Luxury Rating to help narrow down your choice.
Think about it like using Booking.com when searching for the best hotel. Booking.com also use a customer score where each customer rates hotels out of 10. This is similar to the liveaboard customer rating, which is also rated out of 10. But let’s say you only like to stay in hotels rated 8 and above on Booking.com, but you also want the hotel to have WIFI or parking, or to have a swimming pool etc. The features each hotel has is usually secondary to the score out of 10.
I hope you enjoyed this article about Blue Planet Liveaboards
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If this article hasn’t answered all of your questions. If you have more questions either about snorkeling or scuba diving (or specifically about Blue Planet Liveaboards), please comment below with your questions.
There will also be many more articles about scuba and scuba diving safety tips (and on snorkeling too) for you to read and learn about this fabulous sport.
Have fun and be safe!
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Article written by Russell Bowyer who has been a scuba diver since diving on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia in 1989. After his first dive he trained as a BSAC diver in the UK. He attained his Diver Leader certification with BSAC. He then went on to become a scuba diving instructor, teaching others how to dive and was voted as Diving Officer and Treasurer for the Saffron Walden BSAC club too. Russell has dived all over the world, including the UK, on liveaboards in the Red Sea, the Caribbean, South Africa and the USA. Russell is experienced in all dive types, including drift diving, deep dives that involved decompression stops and recreational dives too.
