Caribbean Liveaboard Dive Boats Comparison Chart

Scuba diving the Caribbean is about beautiful warm blue seas and fantastic sea life. But each Caribbean Island is different and what you experience as a scuba diver will depend on where you dive. Which is why it’s important to have a Caribbean liveaboard dive boat comparison chart to help you decide, together with a table of what type of diving to expect from each Caribbean Island.

The best way to dive the Caribbean is by a scuba diving liveaboard. You can check the latest and best deals on Caribbean liveaboards using the following window:

Popular Caribbean liveaboard dive boats:

1. Aqua Cat Liveaboard – Bahamas catamaran liveaboard rated 9.2 out of 10.
2. Avalon II Liveaboard – Cuban liveaboard rated 9.0 out of 10 diving the beautiful and famous Jardines de la Reina (Gardens of the Queen) Marine Park.
3. Bahamas Master – Bahamas liveaboard rated 9.0 out of 10 diving with hammerheads and tiger sharks on the Tiger Shark Experience at the famous Tiger Beach.

The following comparison chart of Caribbean liveaboard dive boats is in alphabetical order by “Caribbean Liveaboard“, but you can easily re-sort the table by clicking the arrows at the top of the column you want to sort by instead. For example, if you would like to sort by Caribbean Island, by “Flexible Booking” or by “Nitrox Onboard“, click the double arrow at the top of this column.

Caribbean Liveaboard Dive Boats Comparison Table

Caribbean Liveaboard Dive Boat	Caribbean Island	Enquire	Review Rating Out of 10	Cost Per Day (From Price)	Review	Flexible Booking	Nitrox	Dive Courses	Diet	Vegan	Vegetarian	Max Guests Cabins/Bathrooms	Ensuites	Air Con Cabins	Seaview Cabins	Min Trip Nights	Max Trip Nights	Internet	Liveaboard Length	Family Friendly	Non-Diver Friendly	Other Activites	Sidemount Diving	Rebreather Friendly	Tech Diver Friendly	Min Experience	Min Logged Dives
Aqua Cat Liveaboard	Bahamas	Enquire	9.2	£170/$231/€190	Review	Yes	Paid	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	30/11/13	Yes	Yes	Yes	7	7	No	31m/102f	Yes	Yes	Kayaks	Yes	No	No	OW	0
Avalon I Liveaboard	Cuba	Enquire	0.0	£260/$354/€291	Review	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	18/08/06	Yes	Yes	No	7	7	No	36m/118f	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	OW	0
Avalon II Liveaboard	Cuba	Enquire	9.0	£271/$369/€304	Review	No	Paid	No	Yes	No	Yes	20/10/10	Yes	Yes	No	7	7	No	40m/131f	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	OW	0
Bahamas Aggressor Liveaboard	Bahamas	Enquire	8.7	£156/$212/€175	Review	No	Paid	Yes	Yes	No	No	14/06/09	Yes	Yes	No	6	7	No	30m/100f	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	OW	0
Bahamas Master Liveaboard	Bahamas	Enquire	9.0	£270/$367/€302	Review	Yes	Paid	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	16/08/08	Yes	Yes	Yes	5	14	No	35m/115f	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	AOW	50
Belize Aggressor III Liveaboard	Belize	Enquire	9.1	£208/$283/€233	Review	No	Paid	Yes	Yes	No	No	18/09/09	Yes	Yes	No	7	7	No	34m/110f	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	OW	0
Belize Aggressor IV Liveaboard	Belize	Enquire	9.0	£215/$292/€241	Review	No	Paid	Yes	Yes	No	No	20/10/13	Yes	Yes	No	7	7	No	42m/138f	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	OW	0
Blackbeards Morning Star Liveaboard	Bahamas	Enquire	9.2	£106/$144/€119	Review	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	24/18/03	No	Yes	No	6	6	No	20m/65f	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	OW	0
Blackbeards Sea Explorer Liveaboard	Bahamas	Enquire	9.2	£106/$144/€119	Review	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	18/18/03	No	Yes	No	6	6	No	20m/65f	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	OW	0
Caribbean Explorer II Liveaboard	Saba St. Kitts	Enquire	9.0	£152/$207/€170	Not Yet	Yes	Paid	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	18/09/09	Yes	Yes	No	7	7	No	35m/115f	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	OW	0
Caribbean Explorer II Liveaboard	St. Maarten	Enquire	9.0	£152/$207/€170	Not Yet	Yes	Paid	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	18/09/09	Yes	Yes	No	7	7	No	35m/115f	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	OW	0
Cat Ppalu Liveaboard	Bahamas	Enquire	0.0	£184/$250/€206	Not Yet	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	12/06/02	No	No	Yes	6	6	No	20m/65f	No	Yes	Kayaks, Stand Up Paddleboard, Fishing	No	No	No	OW	0
Cayman Aggressor IV Liveaboard	Cayman Islands	Enquire	9.3	Enquire	Not Yet	No	Paid	Yes	Yes	No	No	18/09/09	Yes	Yes	Yes	Enquire	Enquire	No	34m/110f	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	OW	0
Cayman Aggressor V Liveaboard	Cayman Islands	Enquire	9.0	£269/$366/€301	Not Yet	Yes	Paid	Yes	Yes	No	No	20/10/10	Yes	Yes	Yes	7	7	No	37m/120f	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	OW	0
Cuan Law Liveaboard	Virgin Islands	Enquire	10.0	£328/$446/€367	Not Yet	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	20/10/10	Yes	Yes	Yes	6	6	Free	32m/105f	No	Yes	Kayaks	No	No	No	OW	0
Jardines Avalon Fleet 1 Liveaboard	Cuba	Enquire	0.0	£271/$369/€304	Not Yet	No	Paid	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	20/10/12	Yes	Yes	Yes	7	7	No	34m/110f	No	Yes	Stand Up Paddleboard	No	No	No	OW	0
Jardines Avalon Fleet 2 Liveaboard	Cuba	Enquire	0.0	£271/$369/€304	Not Yet	No	Paid	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	24/12/14	Yes	Yes	Yes	7	7	No	43m/140f	No	Yes	Stand Up Paddleboard	No	No	No	OW	0
Jardines Avalon III Liveaboard	Cuba	Enquire	0.0	£271/$369/€304	Not Yet	No	Paid	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	30/15/16	Yes	Yes	Yes	7	7	No	55m/180f	No	Yes	Stand Up Paddleboard, Kayaks, Fishing	No	No	No	OW	0
Phoenix Liveaboard	Bahamas	Enquire	8.5	£164/$223/€184	Review	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	08/04/04	Yes	Yes	No	6	6	Paid	14m/46f	No	No	Fishing	No	No	No	OW	0
Sea Hunter Liveaboard	Dominican Republic	Enquire	9.2	£353/$480/€395	Not Yet	No	Free	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	20/10/10	Yes	Yes	Yes	10	11	No	35m/115f	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	AOW	50
Turks & Caicos Aggressor II Liveaboard	Dominican Republic	Enquire	9.1	£195/$265/€218	Not Yet	No	Paid	No	Yes	No	No	18/09/10	Yes	Yes	No	7	7	No	37m/120f	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	OW	0
Turks and Caicos Aggressor II Liveaboard	Turks and Caicos	Enquire	9.1	£195/$265/€218	Not Yet	No	Paid	Yes	Yes	No	No	18/09/10	Yes	Yes	No	7	7	No	37m/120f	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	OW	0
Turks and Caicos Explorer Liveaboard	Turks and Caicos	Enquire	9.0	£205/$279/€230	Not Yet	Yes	Paid	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	20/10/10	Yes	Yes	Yes	7	7	No	38m/124f	No	Yes	Land excursions	No	No	No	OW	0

Caribbean Diving Liveaboard notes:
1. The exchange rate used for GBP to USD 1.36 and GBP to Euro 1.12.
2. If you love one of these Caribbean liveaboard dive boats, but the price is above your budget, please always check the most up to date cost of the trip by clicking on the "Enquire" link, as there may be special offers or a significant price change for a specific Caribbean liveaboard dive boats not yet reflected in the above table of Caribbean liveaboards.
3. The 'Cost per day' column will make it easy to sort these Caribbean liveaboard dive boats by cost, but these prices may vary when you visit to book. The prices listed are a cost guide and were correct at the time of compiling this table.
4. Under review rating '0.0' means no rating received at the time of compiling the table.
5. To scroll on desktop select table and use arrow keys. On touch screen including mobile devices scroll the table using the screen.
6. Min dive certification: OW = Open Water Diver. AOW = Advanced Open Water Diver.
7. When the minimum logged dives has "enquire" this usually means the number of minimum dives varies by trip.
8. Blackbeards Morning Star and Blackbeards Sea Explorer have bunk cabins.

Table of the type of scuba diving to expect from each Caribbean Island.

Scuba Diving Experience By Caribbean Island

Caribbean Island	Number of Dive Sites	Wrecks	Wall Diving	Find Out More	Best For	Geography	Visibility	Notable Dive Sites	Sea Creatures
Bahamas	700 islands offers plenty of dive sites	Yes (Austin Smith Wreck)	Yes	Discover more	Shark diving, especially tiger sharks at Tiger Beach	An archipelago consisting of 700 islands	Crystal clear waters	Exuma Cays, The Washing Machine, Cathedral, Jeep Reef, Austin Smith Wreck, Tiger Beach, Lost Blue Hole, Fish Hotel.	Tiger sharks, lemon sharks, Caribbean reef sharks, bull sharks, hammerheads, nurse shark, oceanic whitetip
Belize	With the largest barrier reef in the Northern Hemisphere there are plenty of dive sites	Yes (Sayonara)	Yes	Discover more	Largest barrier reef in the Northern Hemisphere with shallow coral gardens	Shallow coral gardens to plunging walls	Always good	Amazing Belize Barrier Reef, Blue Hole, Turneffe Atoll Reef, Lighthouse Reef, Half Moon Caye, Glover's Reef, The Elbow, Long Caye Wall, Grand Bogue, Silver Caves, Tarpon Cave	Whale sharks (April to June), gigantic shoals of trevallies, snappers, black-tip sharks, hammerhead sharks, garden eels, stingrays, hogfish, parrotfish, queen triggerfish, goliath grouper, schools of horse-eyed jacks, Atlantic spadefish, eagle rays, turtles, spotted eagle rays
Cayman Islands	Over 350 dive sites	Yes (USS Kittiwake)	Yes	Discover more	Sheer vertical drop offs and wall dives	All three islands are the outcrops of a submarine mountain range known as the Cayman Ridge	Clearest in the Caribbean due to the absence of rivers and streams	USS Kittiwake, Trinity Caves, Bloody Wall, Big Tunnel, Stingray City, North Wall.	Hammerhead sharks, nurse sharks, stingrays, seahorses, turtles, eels, eagle rays, groupers.
Cuba	580 islets so plenty of dive sites	Yes (Russian guard frigate BP 385 MONCADA)	No	Discover more	Jardines de la Reina and Cuba's reefs have been astonishingly well preserved	Cuban is an archipelago that is 1200 km long and 210 km wide with a total land area of 110,992 km2	Always fabulous	Jardines de la Reina (Pipin, Farallon, Vicente, Black Coral I and II, Avalon). Canarreos Archipelago (Cienfuegos, Rancho Luna, Cayo Guano Del Este, Cayo Trabuco, Cayo Rosario, Cayo Sigua).	Reef sharks, hammerheads, turtles, eagle rays, groupers, barracuda, nurse sharks and salt water crocodiles.
Dominican Republic	Just Silver Banks	No	No	Discover more	Snorkelling with humpback whales	Shallow underwater bank of more than 1500 square kilometres	Good	Silver Bank (For snorkelling with breeding Humpbacks)	Humpback whales (January to March)
Saba St. Kitts	Wide variety of dive sites	Yes (Double Wreck, Charles L Brown)	Yes	Discover more	Coral gardens, reefs and drop offs	Active volcanic island with walls, dropoffs and volcanic canyons	Average visibility of 20 metres	Monkey Shoals, Third Encounter, The Eye of the Needle, Diamond Rock, St. Eustatius (The Cliffs, Double Wreck, Hangover Reef, Grand Canyon, Barracuda Reef, Mushroom Garden, Charles L Brown, Blue Bead Hole)	Nurse sharks, turtles, dolphins, black-tip reef sharks, grey reef sharks, eagle rays, barracuda, long snout seahorse, dolphin fish, frogfish, barracuda, lobsters, porcupine fish, drumfish, flying gurnards
St. Maarten (St. Martin)	Variety of dive sites across St. Maarten (30), Saba and St. Kitts	Yes (HMS Proselyte, River Taw Wreck)	Yes	Discover more	Coral encrusted wrecks on the Dutch side, to colourful reefs on the French side of the island	Most sites around the entire island are fairly shallow, around 60 feet (18 m) or less. rock formations that create maze-like structures for divers to explore, with plenty of overhangs, tunnels and ledges.	Mixed	Charlie's Shoal, Big Mama's reef, Saba (Twilight Zone, Louís Ladder, Third Encounter, Hot Springs, and Man of War Shoals), St. Kitts (Sandy point, St. Peters, Coconut Tree Reef, Black Coral Reef, and Brimstone Hill Shallow)	Nurse sharks, reef sharks, starfish, lobsters, blue crabs, seahorses, surgeon fish, grouper, trumpetfish, tarpon, filefish, barracuda, moray eels, trunkfish, turtles, humpback whales (February to June), dolphins, stingray, big grouper, stonefish
Turks and Caicos	Archipelago of 40 coral islands offering plenty of dive sites	Yes (Endymon, Molasses Reef Wreck)	Yes	Discover more	Flourishing coral reef ecosystem and spectacular wall diving	An archipelago of 40 coral islands and dramatic ocean topography	Mostly excellent visibility	North West Point (Black Coral Gardens, The Crack, The Dome, The Hole in the Wall, Shark Hotel, Amphitheater), Grace Bay (Aquarium, Graceland, Grouper Hole, Coral Gables), French Cay, West Caicos	Caribbean reef sharks, nurse sharks, Hawksbill turtles, bottlenose dolphins, spotted eagle rays, eels, grunts, snapper, grouper, horse-eyed Jack, blacktip sharks, hammerheads, tiger sharks, manta rays, humpback whales (January to March)
Virgin Islands (British)	Wide variety of dive sites	Yes (RMS Rhone, Chikuzen)	No	Discover more	Large schools of tropical fish, incredible reefs and some brilliant wrecks	Plenty of reefs and gigantic boulders.	Enjoy 18- 30 meters visibility	Wreck of the Rhone, Wreck of the Chikuzen, Round Rock, The Blinders	Lobster, turtles, moray eels, goliath grouper, nurse sharks, bar Jacks, brown chromis, Creole wrasse, snappers and squirrelfish, nurse sharks, hawksbill turtles

Notes on diving experience by Caribbean Island:
1. The St. Maarten (St. Martin) liveaboard also visits and dives Saba St. Kitts.
2. Click on the "Discover more" to discover more about the Caribbean Islands, the liveaboards and reviews.

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