Cuan Law Trimaran Liveaboard – Image courtesy of Liveaboard.com
If you’re thinking about scuba diving the Caribbean, but you’d prefer a Caribbean catamaran liveaboard this article lists all these dive boats. The following four liveaboards are stable catamaran dive boats, in fact one is a trimaran too.
Cuan Law Trimaran: Virgin Islands dive Liveaboard.
Phoenix Liveaboard – Bahamas sailing catamaran.
The best way to dive the Bahamas is by a scuba diving liveaboard. You can check the latest and best deals on Bahamas liveaboards using the following window:
The top advantage of a catamaran or trimaran over a monohulled dive boat is stability. This is ideal if you don’t have the best sea legs and suffer a bit from sea sickness.
Cat Ppalu Catamaran Liveaboard – Image courtesy of Liveaboard.com
Caribbean Catamaran 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 catamaran scuba diving liveaboards, 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 catamaran liveaboard not yet reflected in the above table.
3. The 'Cost per day' column will make it easy to sort these Caribbean catamaran diving liveaboards 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.
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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.Aqua Cat Liveaboard – Caribbean catamaran liveaboard – Image courtesy of Liveaboard.com
1. Aqua Cat Liveaboard: Bahamas motorboat catamaran
The Aqua Cat is a 31 metres (102 feet) motorboat catamaran offering scuba diving liveaboard trips for up to 30 scuba divers in the Bahamas. This catamaran liveaboard has 11 en-suite cabins with air conditioning and has been customer rated 9.2 out of 10. This is an American customer review from one very happy scuba diver:
“Exactly how a diveboat should be. We were blessed with perfect conditions with a wonderful crew and really nice dive sites who says the Bahamas has been fished out ,Abaco is truly amazing. gotta love the sharks.” Recommended for: Great boat, great crew,great dives.
Aqua Cat Liveaboard liveaboard review by Albert L from the United States
With great food ranging from western style to local cuisine.
The Cat Ppalu catamaran is the perfect Caribbean diving liveaboard for groups of scuba divers, families and friends to explore the Bahamas. The Cat Ppalu is 20 metres (66 feet) in length and designed for up to 12 guests across six cabins.
All meals are included with western and local food options.
You can even try your hand at fishing and catch the evening meal!
Cuan Law Trimaran Liveaboard – Image courtesy of Liveaboard.com
3. Cuan Law Trimaran: Virgin Islands dive Liveaboard
The Cuan Law is a Trimaran Caribbean liveaboard offering exceptional service for up to 20 scuba divers wanting to explore the Virgin Islands. So far rated 10 out of 10 with the following customer review:
“Worth Every Penny. Hangin on the deck, chatting with the other guests. We had a lovely group.” Recommended for: 1. Crew: Outstanding. Personable, informative, attentive and genuine. 2. Food: Ridiculously amazing. Diverse, nuanced tastes, beautifully plated. 3. Dives: While the visibility was iffy, I did see more new creatures than I have on other dives. Credit the Dive Masters.
Cuan Law Trimaran Liveaboard review by Helen W from the United States
All meals are included with western and local food options.
The Phoenix catamaran liveaboard is a sailing catamaran for up to 30 divers wanting to explore the Bahamas. With space for up to eight guests across four cabins with aircon and private bathrooms.
“Incredible experience. There was a good mix of dive sites (reefs, sharks, wrecks), with flexibility to see different ones, depending on weather conditions. The crew was very good at their job. The dive masters were clearly well trained, and knew the dive sites and local sea life in-and-out. The captain is also an excellent cook. We never had the same dish twice, and the food was all creative, and just what you need after a day of multiple dives. The crew were quite friendly, and made us feel at home during the whole trip. The catamaran is a great boat to dive from. It is spacious, provides a stable platform, and offers easy entry and exit from the water.” Recommended for: Very skilled and knowledgeable crew, world class dive sites, comfortable boat.
Phoenix Caribbean Catamaran Liveaboard customer review by Andrew D from the United States
All meals are included with western and local food options.
Vegan and vegetarian options offered.
Try your hand at fishing in between dives to catch your diner.
Paid for internet is offered.
Aqua Cat Liveaboard – Caribbean catamaran liveaboard – Image courtesy of Liveaboard.com
Recommendations for Caribbean catamaran scuba diving liveaboards
If you want a good all round catamaran diving liveaboard to explore the Caribbean, the Aqua Cat motorboat catamaran is a great option with great customer reviews. The Aqua Cat Caribbean catamaran is the only one with nitrox onboard, so if this is important to you this is the dive boat for you. She also scored very highly in my article about luxury Caribbean liveaboards, which you might like to read. You’ll also find a handy table of the best luxury liveaboards in the Caribbean in this article, where the Aqua Cat was joint first in the list.
However, if you are looking for the best Caribbean sailing catamaran liveaboard, the Cuan Law rates very highly on the luxury scale and also featured on the above article. Offering great food, rated highly and with free internet.
Table of Caribbean liveaboards
This list of Caribbean 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.
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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.
