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Tech Diving Liveaboard Maldives (3 Tech Diver Friendly Liveaboards)

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Theia Maldives liveaboard with tech support – image courtesy of Liveaboard.com

If you’re looking for tech friendly Maldives liveaboards there aren’t many to choose from. But to save you the time of searching yourself from a long list, here’s three tech diving Maldives liveaboards.

3 Maldives liveaboards with tech diving support:

  1. Conte Max Liveaboard, Maldives.
  2. Duke of York Liveaboard, Maldives.
  3. Theia Liveaboard, Maldives.

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:

Let’s give you a bit more information about each of these Maldives liveaboards. Firstly in a handy table.

Table of tech diving Maldives liveaboards (Scroll table right for more info.)

LiveaboardRating
Out of 10
Cost Per DayEnquireFlexible BookingNitroxLengthMax Guests/
Cabins/Bathrooms
InternetRebreather SupportSidemount DivingFamily Cabins
Conte Max Liveaboard7.6From £156/$212/€175EnquireYesFree33m/108f20/8/8PaidYesYesYes
Duke of York Liveaboard8.0From £203/$276/€228EnquireYesFree36m/118f25/11/11PaidYesYesYes
Theia Liveaboard, Maldives9.5From £182/$248/€204EnquireNoFree32m/105f18/9/9FreeNoYesYes
Table Notes:
1. The exchange rate used for GBP to USD 1.36 and GBP to Euro 1.12.
2. The 'Cost per day' column will make it easy to sort these Maldives liveaboards by cost, but these prices may vary when you visit to book. But the prices listed are a cost guide and were correct at the time of compiling this table.
3. To scroll on desktop select table and use arrow keys. On touch screen including mobile devices scroll the table using the screen.
4. All the above tech liveaboards have kayaks onboard for extra fun.
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Conte Max Maldives liveaboard – image courtesy of Liveaboard.com

1. Conte Max Liveaboard, Maldives: Liveaboard with tech support

The Conte Max Maldives liveaboard offers tech diving support. This liveaboard also offers rebreather support, as well as sidemount diving equipment.

Features included with your stay on the Maldives Conte Max liveaboard are as follows:

  • All 8 cabins have private en-suite bathrooms, air conditioning and there’s daily housekeeping. Some of the cabins have sea views
  • Warm water showers.
  • A sun deck for those sun-worshippers who like to relax and enjoy sunbathing in-between dives.
  • Food includes western style food and is served buffet style. Food can be eaten indoors or outside alfresco style, with all day snacks and a beach BBQ.
  • Paid for wine from a fine wines selection and beer.
  • Specific dietary requirements can be catered for including vegetarian and vegan options.
  • This liveaboard is non-diver friendly for snorkeling.
  • Scuba diving facilities include: DIN adaptors, a camera station and separate rinse area for your underwater camera and equipment and scuba gear rentals.
  • Indoor air conditioned saloon with bar and a library.
  • Camera station and a separate rinse area for your underwater camera.
  • Family friendly liveaboard with family cabins.
  • Kayaks on board.
  • Available for Charter.

Please take a read of this article for a complete review of the Conte Max Maldives liveaboard. Or you can book this Maldives liveaboard with tech diving support here, and find out the routes and departures to suit you.

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Duke of York Maldives Liveaboard – image courtesy of Liveaboard.com

2. Duke of York Liveaboard, Maldives

The most expensive of the three tech diving Maldives liveaboards. Like the Conte Max, in addition to tech diver support, they also have sidemount diving and rebreather support too.

Offers an itinerary of Extreme South/Huvadhoo on an 8 day 7 night trip with up to 17 dives.

The features included with your stay on the Maldives Duke of York liveaboard are as follows:

  • All cabins have private en-suite bathrooms, air conditioning and there’s daily housekeeping. Some with sea views.
  • 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. This is served buffet style and as fine cuisine and can be eaten 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, a camera station and separate rinse area for your underwater camera and equipment and scuba gear rentals.
  • Other activities include kayaks.
  • Family friendly with family cabins.
  • Massages are available at an extra charge.
  • Available for Charter.

Guest review of the Duke of York Maldives liveaboard:

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.

Please take a read of this article for a complete review of the Duke of York Maldives liveaboard. Or you can book this Maldives liveaboard with tech diving support here, and find out the routes and departures to suit you.

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Theia Maldives Liveaboard – image courtesy of Liveaboard.com

3. Theia Liveaboard, Maldives

If you want a tech diver friendly liveaboard that’s rated highly buy guests, has free nitrox and free internet, the Theia Maldives liveaboard is the one to choose.

However, if you are also looking for rebreather support, the first two liveaboards have this but the Theia doesn’t. But if it’s specifically rebreather support you want, this article lists 7 Maldives liveaboards with rebreather support.

One of the itineraries includes the Great South Route. This trip heads down to Sudadiva Atoll and is a 14 day 15 night trip with up to 31 dives in total.

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

  • All the cabins have private en-suite bathrooms and air conditioning. Some cabins have sea views and there’s daily housekeeping and a laundry service.
  • Enjoy warm water showers.
  • A sun deck for those sun-worshippers who like to relax and enjoy sunbathing in-between dives.
  • Food includes western style food and is served buffet style. Meals can be eaten indoors or outside alfresco style, with all day snacks and a BBQ.
  • Paid for wine from a fine wines selection and beer.
  • Specific dietary requirements can be catered for including vegetarian and vegan options.
  • Non-diver friendly for snorkeling.
  • Indoor air conditioned saloon with bar.
  • Scuba diving facilities include: DIN adaptors and equipment and scuba gear rentals.
  • Camera station and a separate rinse area for your underwater camera.
  • Family friendly liveaboard with family cabins.
  • Available for Charter.

Guest review of the Theia Maldives liveaboard:

Great boat, great crew, great week. We had a great week! Beginning with the beautiful boat and the outstanding crew (boat, dhoni and guides) the really good atmosphere between the guests and of course the diving! We were shown the best of “the north” with lots of mantas and beautiful dive sites. We will definitely come back aboard Theia!Recommended for: Atmosphere on boat, nice and super clean cabin and great diving.

Please take a read of this article for a complete review of the Theia Maldives liveaboard. Or you can book this Maldives liveaboard with tech diving support here, and find out the routes and departures to suit you.

You can also search for your favourite Maldives Liveaboard:

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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Total Records Found: 53, showing 10 per page
Discover LiveaboardCustomer RatingSDE Lux Rating %Flexible BookingDive CoursesDietary RequirementsNitroxGear Rental
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.

I hope you enjoyed this article about tech diving liveaboard Maldives

If this article hasn’t answered all of your questions. If you have more questions either about snorkelling or scuba diving (or specifically about tech diving liveaboard Maldives), 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!

Tech Diving Liveaboard Maldives (3 Tech Diver Friendly Liveaboards)

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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