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Maldives Maavahi Liveaboard Review

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MV Maavahi Liveaboard – Maldives liveaboard dive boat – image courtesy of Liveaboard.com. This post contains affiliate links, which means I may receive a small commission, at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through a link.

The Maldives Maavahi liveaboard designed for a more intimate small group of divers

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 Maavahi liveaboard review, it’s possibly safe to assume you intend to dive from a liveaboard.

Maldives Maavahi liveaboard review: A review of the Maldives Maavahi liveaboard reveals a 27 metre (89 feet) custom-built for scuba divers. Sleeps 14 scuba divers across 7 cabins with en-suites and air conditioning. Local and Western food served buffet style indoors or alfresco with an air-conditioned saloon and bar. Dive trips of 8 days 7 nights.

An incredible chance 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 Maavahi liveaboard

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Features of Maldives Maavahi liveaboard cabin review – Image courtesy of Liveaboard.com

The features that are included with your stay on the Maldives Maavahi liveaboard are as follows:

  • The Maldives Maavahi liveaboard is 27 metres (89 feet) in length.
  • Designed for up to 14 divers across 7 cabins.
  • Cabins have private en-suite bathrooms and air conditioning, with a laundry service and daily housekeeping.
  • Warm water showers.
  • An observation deck, a leisure 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 both indoors and alfresco outside.
  • Specific dietary requirements can be catered for including vegan and vegetarian options.
  • Non-diver friendly for snorkeling.
  • Indoor air conditioned saloon with bar.
  • Scuba diving facilities include: DIN adaptors, paid-for nitrox available, and equipment and scuba gear rentals.
  • Paid-for internet.
  • Other activities on board include fishing and stand up paddleboard.

You can check the Maavahi liveaboard availability and prices for this Boat here.

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Maldives Maavahi scuba diving review – Image courtesy of Liveaboard.com

The diving from the Maldives Maavahi liveaboard is ideal for the smaller group of divers.

On this scuba diving liveaboard, you’ll be in the hands of experienced and professional crew.

Search for your favourite Maldives Liveaboard here:

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.

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Review: MV Scubaspa Yang; Book: MV Scubaspa Yang 9.6 87% YES YES YES YES YES
Review: MV Emperor Explorer; Book: MV Emperor Explorer 9.6 63% YES YES YES YES YES
Review: MV Theia; Book: MV Theia 9.5 85% YES YES YES YES YES
Review: MY Princess Dhonkamana; Book: MY Princess Dhonkamana 9.5 79% YES YES YES YES YES
Review: MV Scubaspa Ying; Book: MV Scubaspa Ying 9.4 87% YES YES YES YES YES
Review: MV Sachika; Book: MV Sachika 9.4 83% YES YES YES YES YES
Review: MV Emperor Serenity; Book: MV Emperor Serenity 9.4 60% YES YES YES YES YES
Review: MV Soleil 2; Book: MV Soleil 2 9.3 96% YES YES YES YES YES
Review: MV Emperor Atoll; Book: MV Emperor Atoll 9.3 77% YES YES YES YES YES
Review: MV Azalea; Book: MV Azalea 9.3 77% NO YES YES YES YES

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.

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Scuba diving options on the Maldives Maavahi liveaboard:

Examples of the dive itineraries on the Maavahi liveaboard.

  • Male – Vaavu – Ari – Male – 8 days 7 nights trip. Approx. 16 dives in total. No Certificate needed for those not diving or looking to take a diving course on board – 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.

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.

You can check the Maavahi liveaboard availability and prices for this Boat here.

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I hope you enjoyed this article about the Maldives Maavahi liveaboard review

I’d love to hear from you. Tell us about your adventures of diving and snorkelling. Please use the comments section below. Please also share your photos. Either from your underwater cameras or videos from your waterproof go-pro’s!

But in particular if you’ve dived either in the Maldives or in particular on the Maldives Maavahi liveaboard, please share your experiences.

If this article hasn’t answered all of your questions. If you have more questions either about snorkelling or scuba diving (or specifically about the Maldives Maavahi liveaboard review), please comment below with your questions.

There will also be many more articles about scuba and scuba diving safety tips (and on snorkelling too) for you to read and learn about this fabulous sport.

Have fun and be safe!

Maldives Maavahi Liveaboard Review

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.

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