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The Maldives Duke of York liveaboard – Overall review rating 8.0 out of 10 and 4.5 stars
If you’re set on scuba diving the Maldives, your next decision is whether you do resort based diving vs scuba dive from a liveaboard. But as you’re reading this Duke of York liveaboard review, it’s possibly safe to assume you intend to dive from a liveaboard.
Maldives Duke of York liveaboard review: A review of the Maldives Duke of York liveaboard reveals a 36 metre (118 feet) custom-built boat for scuba divers. Sleeps 24 divers over 10 cabins with en-suites, air- con and some have sea views. Local and western food served buffet style or fine dinning with an air-con saloon and bar. Dive trips of 8 days 7 nights.
One of the best chances for you to see whale sharks and other sharks, manta rays, eagle rays, turtles wrecks and much much more.
The best way to dive the Maldives is by a scuba diving liveaboard. You can check the latest and best deals on Maldives liveaboards using the following window:
Features of Maldives Duke of York liveaboard
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The Duke of York is more than just a liveaboard boat. She is more like a floating hotel and spa with absolute luxury than just a normal Liveaboard boat.
The features that are included with your stay on the Maldives Duke of York liveaboard are as follows:
The Maldives Duke of York liveaboard is 36 metres (118 feet) in length.
Designed for up to 24 divers across 10 cabins.
Cabins have private en-suite bathrooms and air conditioning, some with sea views and there’s daily housekeeping.
Warm water showers.
A leisure deck, and observation deck and a sun deck for those sun-worshippers who like to relax and enjoy sunbathing in-between dives.
Food includes local and western style food and is served buffet style and as fine cuisine and can be eaten both indoors or outside alfresco style. Plus there’s a beach BBQ.
Both wine and beer are available at an extra charge with a fine wines selection.
Specific dietary requirements can be catered for including both vegan and vegetarian.
Non-diver friendly for snorkeling.
Indoor air conditioned saloon with bar and a library.
Scuba diving facilities include: DIN adaptors, tech diving, rebreather support, sidemount diving, free nitrox available, a camera station and separate rinse area for your underwater camera and equipment and scuba gear rentals.
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The diving from the Maldives Duke of York liveaboard has a good review rating and she was custom-built for scuba diving.
On this scuba diving liveaboard, you’ll be in the hands of experienced and professional crew.
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Table of Maldives liveaboards
This list of Maldives 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.
Scuba diving options on the Maldives Duke of York liveaboard:
Examples of the dive itineraries on the Duke of York liveaboard.
Central Atolls (Male-Male) – 8 days 7 nights trip. Approx. 17 dives in total. Open Water certification – No minimum logged dives required.
Some of the diving in the Maldives are deep dives and up to 30 metres (98 feet), with currents so are drift dives and there are night dives too. But The Duke of York is about including most experience levels of scuba diver, which includes beginners as there’s no minimum logged dives requirement.
On most of these trips divers will see a variety of marine life. This includes nudibranchs, Napoleon Wrasse, moray eels, large schools of reef fish, eagle rays, various shark species including grey reef and white tip sharks, turtles, manta rays and whale sharks.
You will also get the opportunity on some trips to dive some of the most beautiful shipwrecks too.
Maldives Duke of York liveaboard review by customers
There is only one review so far on the Duke Of York liveaboard, which is as follows:
Comfortable boat and awesome food. “Very good diving around Fuvamullah and Addu atolls in channels. The food on board is mainly European style and is very very good. Cabins are very comfortable. Local dive guides were great. The Italian dive leader is very friendly and professional.” Recommended for: Italian food, very comfortable cabins, friendly dive leader.
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Maldives Duke of York Liveaboard Review
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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.
