Mari Liveaboard, Indonesia

Name: Ambon, Banda Sea & Alor Expedition (Ambon – Maumere)
Start: 2027-04-05
End: 2027-04-17
Location: Indonesia

8.8 Fabulous

Nitrox available
Free Internet
Naturalist Guide
En-Suite bathrooms
Family Cabins
Aircon Cabins
Non-Diver (Snorkeler) Friendly

from $ 285 / day Check dates

“Good dives and comfortable atmosphere. ”
Fernando T, Uruguay

Highlights

Traditional Indonesian phinisi with modern furnishings
Maximum of 14 guests for a personal experience
Nitrox available on board

The beautiful Mari liveaboard is a traditional Indonesian phinisi offering year-round diving trips in Raja Ampat, the Banda Sea, and Komodo National Park. Constructed entirely of ironwood and teak, the 30m Mari was refurbished in 2016 to offer modern furnishings and ample onboard space. She caters to a maximum of 14 guests in 7 cabins, ensuring a more personal experience and plenty of room to relax. There are 3 Deluxe and 4 Superior cabins, each offering individually controlled AC, storage space, and private bathrooms. All cabins are on the main deck, so they are bright and well-ventilated. Common areas include the open-air lounge, bar, and 2 sun decks with loungers. The recent addition of a highly-trained chef onboard means that a wide variety of fresh, healthy, and delicious cuisine will satisfy hungry divers. The al-fresco dining table is the perfect place to enjoy a hearty meal surrounded by stunning Indonesian scenery.

The Mari explores the best of Indonesia's dive sites to offer exciting year-round adventures. Divers can explore Komodo National Park on 4, 5, and 10-night trips from July to October. Divers can expect thrilling diving in the national park at world-famous dive sites such as Manta Alley, Castle Rock, and Crystal Rock, diving with manta rays, sharks, and huge schools of fish. In October, the boat moves to Raja Ampat via Flores & the Maluku until April. Explore one of the most diverse marine environments in the world, with the chance to see everything from pygmy sea-horses to whales. The spacious dive deck with gear storage and individual rinse tanks, large dive tender for getting to and from the dive sites, and the recent addition of nitrox availability ensure a comfortable dive liveaboard.

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Included: VAT, Environment Tax, Airport Transfer, Hotel Transfer, Drinking Water, Tea & Coffee, Welcome Cocktails, Full-Board Meal Plan (All meals), Snacks, Diving Package, Land Excursions, Naturalist Guide, Snorkel Gear, Snorkeling Guide, Beach Towels, Cabin Towels, Complimentary Toiletries, Deck Towels, WiFi internet.

Required Extras: Fuel Surcharge (€75-250 / trip), Park and Port Fees (€140-200 / trip).

Optional Extras: Gratuities, Alcoholic Beverages, Soft drinks, Nitrox (€5 / tank), Rental Gear, Scuba Diving Courses, Laundry / Pressing Services.

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Boat features

Free Internet
Naturalist Guide
En-Suite bathrooms
Family Cabins
Aircon Cabins
Non-Diver (Snorkeler) Friendly
Warm Water Showers
Sun Deck
Nearly 1:1 Crew-to-Guest Ratio
Seaview Cabins
Non-Smoking Rooms
Custom built for diving
Charging stations
Library
Outdoor Dining
Observation Deck
Local & International Crew
Snorkeling Equipment
Separate Rinse for u/w Camera
Outside Showers
Leisure Deck
Daily housekeeping
Bar
Naturalist Guide

Food & Drinks

Fine Cuisine
Al Fresco Dining
Vegan Options
Vegetarian Options
Beer available
Wine Available
Full-board Option
Welcome Cocktails
Snacks All Day
Western Food
Local Food
Set Menu Dinner

If you have any specific dietary requirements whilst on-board your cruise, you can add this to your special requests on step 2 of the booking form. We advise limiting these requests to religious beliefs or food allergies.

Diving

Nitrox available
Shaded Diving Area
DIN Adaptors
Rinse Hoses
Dive deck
Tenders for diving

Languages Spoken

The crew speaks English, German, and Indonesian.

Gear Rental

Equipment is available for rent on this boat. Please provide your rental needs on the booking form. If the rental gear is not included in the price, you will need to pay for it on board the boat. Show prices

Drawings & Vessel Layouts

Cabin Types

Boat Specifications

Year built: 2008

Year renovated: 2018

Length: 32.2 m

Deck area: 3 + Sky Deck

Beam: 6.5m

Cruising speed: 6-7 knots

Engines: Nissan RD8/280PS

Max guests: 14

Number of cabins: 7

Number of bathrooms: 7

Tenders: 2 dinghies from fiber (6.5 m / 40 PS Yamaha + 4 m / 15 PS Yamaha)

Water capacity: 5000 litre/day

Fuel capacity: 16 ton

Freshwater maker: 5 ton/day

Boat navigation and safety

Radar
Depth Sounder
GPS
Radio VHF/DSC/SSB
E.P.I.R.B. Distress System
Emergency Rafts
Life Vests
Fire Alarm & Fire Extinguishers
Oxygen
First Aid Kits
Fishfinder
Satellite & mobile phones
Bilge pump alarm
Search light
Crew trained in first aid
Emergency flares

Mari Reviews

8.8 Fabulous

Vessel

8.2
Crew

8.7
Food

9.4
Diving

8.9
Value

8.7

10 Exceptional
Adelheid L
Austria

Very relaxing, very good service
Very good dive guides, lots of manta rays and Komodo dragons!
Recommended for
Dive, eat and relax
12 Sep, 2018

Translated from German

9.6 Exceptional
Monica S
United States

We absolutely loved it!
We just got back from a Misool trip and loved every minute of it! 🤩 The dive sites were spectacular and the cruise director Ungke chose the best sites for us. We also had special requests and he was able to accommodate them all. All the dive guides were wonderful as well, from spotting the tiniest seahorses underwater to helping us above water (especially when jumping off the boat deck into some nice current). Literally everyone on board was friendly and always helpful with whatever we needed - the Mari crew was top notch!! The boat layout itself is very clean and spacious, with lots of space in the cabins and dive deck for all our dive and camera gear. We also appreciated boarding early when we arrived in Sorong, we had our welcome drinks not even 2 ours after the flight landed. 😋 We are already planning our next trip on the Mari!
Recommended for
Spectacular diving in Misool. Friendly dive staff and crew. Comfortable boat layout and diving/camera areas.
20 Jan, 2025

9.6 Exceptional
Anna H
France

Great crew, great ship and Raja Ampat delivered great diving...
I was on Mari before and kept a nice souvenir from 7 years ago. The souvenir was confirmed and the crew is different but still absolutely perfect.
Recommended for
The diving experience. The charming crew. The excellent food.
28 Dec, 2025

8.8 Fabulous
Kshitij C
India

Exhilarating!
Been diving ~8 yrs, never seen such density of flora and fauna underwater at any location. This is by far my best diving experience. Ranging from the vast expanse of huge and colorful corals at Melissa's garden, to the Manta cleaning stations at Blue Magic and Manta's Ridge where oceanic mantas literally sneak up on you, and the amazing macro life at Kerou channel - it was truly an amazing trip. Definitely the first of many :)
Recommended for
Insane diving sites, Great food, Amazing (and very knowledgeable) crew and guides
06 May, 2019

8.8 Fabulous
Paolo B
Italy

Exploration with confort
Amazing diving with Oceanic Manta and Christmas pigmy sea horses.
Recommended for
Competent and always available personnel; Plenty of fresh water; Tender boat always in the right place
03 Dec, 2017

10 Exceptional
Anna B
United States

The Mari is a beautiful ship with skilled crew, fabulous dive masters, and wonderful food.
Each consecutive dive seemed to push the limits of the words FABULOUS, AMAZING, AND MAGNIFICENT. The huge diversity and vast amount of flora and fauna seen on this trip demonstrates the other-worldliness of reef life in Raja Amput. The diving is some of the best in the world and to have warm water, pleasant living conditions, and great food seemed like the tasty icing on a scrumptious cake.
Recommended for
Our dive masters highlighted the stunning coral gardens, searched and found the tiniest of micro organisms like pygmy seahorses and nudibranchs, and set us up to see the oceanic and reef mantas, woebegone sharks, and scads of reef sharks. The crew coordinated our dives so we never had our experiences negatively impacted by other divers. Our food and lodging was top shelf.
27 Mar, 2020

9.2 Superb
Suyan J
China

Have the best time of my life
I love the 2nd day dive, watching dozens of sharks !
Recommended for
Amazing dive, nice crew, comfortable facility
26 Sep, 2018

8.0 Very good
Werner Z
Austria

A very nice relaxed trip with very nice dive sites
It was a very nice and relaxed trip. Since the guests were also very relext.The whole crew was very accommodating and eager to take care of everyone, whether divers or snorkelers.The biggest highlight was definitely diving with the manta rays.
Recommended for
great team. beautiful dive sites. Very good food.
29 Mar, 2025

Translated from German

9.6 Exceptional
Kenneth G
United States

The trip was wonderful with excellent and helpful staff as well as great diving.
The diving was excellent and it was great to see healthy coral and plentiful marine life.
Recommended for
The staff, diving and scenery.
28 May, 2019

8.8 Fabulous
Christian S
Germany

Perfect liveaboard in Raja Ampat at great value for money
The service and flexibility of the guides and crew were very good. This made the safari on the Mari a great experience. The boat has solid equipment with air conditioning as well as hot showers in every room.There was only Indonesian cuisine for food, but that was okay because there was something for everyone. We would love to come back again!
Recommended for
Raja Ampat with its dive sites is breathtaking, Ungke and rest of the guides/crew, flexibility
01 Jan, 2023

Translated from German

91 reviews

8.8 Fabulous
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10 Exceptional
stephane L
France

Superb Komodo Cruise
The dives all more incredible than each other! The boat is in very good condition, nothing is missing! The crew is really lovely! The big bonus is the cooking!! Hyper varied meals every day and really very good !! Thanks to the chef:) thanks also to Jerry my dive guide who managed to find the unobtainable one every time:) I absolutely recommend this cruise!!
Recommended for
The dives - the meals - the comfort
02 Oct, 2019

Translated from French

9.2 Superb
Malgorzata I
Germany

Thank you for the wonderful experience!
Wonderful very varied dives, most friendly and attentive crew and the food…. great variety of the local dishes. What an experience! I would repeat the trip just because of that “culinary experience”!
Recommended for
Wonderful Crew. Amazing Food. Service.
07 Jan, 2025

10 Exceptional
James C
United States

Amazing! Diving + Crew + Fellow Divers + Food = Travel Magic!
A truly great experience, diving with the amazing crew and guests on the Mari!! The boat is older and a traditional wooden build. It has character, that is to say it is not a gleaming white fiberglass and stainless steel mass. The cabins are small, but larger than other liveaboards we have done, and include a private bathroom. The cabins are cleaned each day during your first dive, which is a very welcome touch. Mari has everything you need to enjoy your diving trip. And diving is what you will do, starting as early as 6 am or 7am when the Mari's wonderful Dive Director, Ungke, gives the first briefing, and finishing up after dark when you opt to do a night dive. The routine for dive liveaboards (for any 1st timers) is dive, eat, rest, dive, eat, rest…. rinse and repeat. But don’t worry about your gear, the crew will take care of that. Our dive guide was Irvin and he was great - friendly, safe and fun! We appreciated that he reminded everyone to check, check, double check your gear before the dive launches left the Mari. The launches are simple outboard boats that comfortably fit 4-6 divers. There were 13 (of 14 max capacity) guests on our trip and 2 of them were snorkeling only. So with 3 dive boat runs (one boat makes 2 trips to the sites) we had a maximum of 4 divers per dive group - yippee! The diving itself was as you would expect for Raja Ampat - Amazing! That said the visibility on our days to the south, off the east coast of Misool, was not that good at 5-10 meters. But even with limited viz there was an amazing amount and variety of coral and fish. Above water the scenery in that area is fantastic with picture postcard “gum drop” islets. The calm seas made it easy to spot the dolphins as they cruised by. We hiked up to an observation deck for a once in a lifetime view of Heart Lagoon you do not want to miss. We were on the trip for both Christmas and New Years and were treated to a Christmas afternoon visit by a whale and calf, magical. It was 1 of several whale sightings on our 12-day trip. Dives up north had much better visibility, at about 20-30 meters. But your experience may be different, diving is always an adventure. Wobbegong sharks, walking sharks, manta rays, reef sharks, turtles, eels, sea snakes, cuttlefish, squid, crocodile fish, nudibranch, pygmy seahorses (so many pygmy seahorses), schools of everything, the list goes on and on. As retired dive instructors we were blown away on a daily basis by the insane variety and quantity of marine life and the mind-blowing assortment of corals, sponges, anemones... WOW!! The kitchen staff of the Mari is fantastic, the food we had for every meal was abundant and well-prepared and delicious. And there were so many meals! We started each day with a quick breakfast before the first dive. After the first dive, there was a full breakfast (that's right Hobbit fans there is a “second breakfast”). Lunch follows the 2nd dive of the day, and snacks follow after the 3rd. Dinner follows the night dive, when it is time to take a nap before 1st breakfast and do it all again. So much food!! But quantity aside, the chef was wonderful. We were expecting a steady diet of fried rice and fried noodles, like we have experienced in other parts of Indonesia, but that was far from our Mari experience. The chef spent years working in high-end hotels and other liveaboards, and his experience showed in the variety and quality of every recipe! The variety of meats, fresh fruit and veg, and accompaniments of rice, potato, pasta and bread was insane, given that we were on a boat in the middle of Raja Ampat. And the kitchen took special requests too, like the from-scratch sambal they made every day for our group, and the ginger and palm sugar tea that sometimes appeared for snack time. No first class restaurant would be complete without the front- of-house staff, in this case Ever, who had his hands full with our diverse group. But he took great care of us all, was charming and on to
Recommended for
Diving. Crew and Food. Fellow Passengeres.
16 Jan, 2025

9.6 Exceptional
Jamie J
United States

Fantastic clean new liveaboard
The night dives were amazing and one of the dive guides was really good at pointing out interesting critters. Little side excursions were perfect and Holger was very flexible with taking the small boat to snorkel sites. Crew is good and polite, great with taking care of all your gear.
Recommended for
Great facilities, plenty of space, hot shower water
30 Apr, 2018

8.8 Fabulous
Borbala S
Hungary

Badly understaffed, 5 people with dive master, raising tip from 15 to 20ER/day, no intetnet
Being hooked in a mild current Beautiful coral gardens Variety if dive sites
Recommended for
Very nice staff, lovely dive sites, great boat
18 Jan, 2023

8.0 Very good
Willy M
Indonesia

I had a good diving experience , the food was excellent , but the weather is not so friendly, over all itwas wonderful
The manta diving was so great , it was the highlight of the trip...
Recommended for
Easy to the diving spot, silence and relaxing
04 Mar, 2018

10 Exceptional
Arron B
United Kingdom

Crew made a very special trip
Seeing whale sharks and dolphins enjoying a variety of delicious foods. And the attention to detail from all staff. Also the trip it self.
Recommended for
Crew. Location. Boat.
09 Nov, 2023

10 Exceptional
Lynn M
United States

Amazing, wonderful, fantastic and unbelievable!!!
The whole trip was highlights. I have been on many liveaboards all over the world and this one was the best! It is not fancy. It is homey, comfortable, relaxed and personal. The food was yummy (new chief) and lots of it. I have no complaints.
Recommended for
The crew knocked themselves out to make sure everything was perfect. The diving was incredible. The boat was a wooden, Indonesian, old design that was authentic and great to travel on. The divemasters were professional, knowledgeable, friendly and excited about every dive.
24 Feb, 2020

10 Exceptional
Norbert L
Germany

A highlight in our lives
Diving and shore excursions were great
Recommended for
Guides and Dive spots. Crew. Cook and Captain.
25 Nov, 2024

10 Exceptional
Tammie V
Canada

Amazing trip with lots of color and current
The Mari cruise is amazing. The staff are great and the boat is clean with plenty of outdoor seating. The vessel is able to moor close to many of the dive sites that the trip on the tenders is minutes only. The allow for plenty of time in the water and accommodate requests quickly. The dives themselves were colorful with plenty of wildlife.
Recommended for
All the Staff. Whale sharks. Beautiful Coral.
10 Nov, 2025

9.6 Exceptional
Corinne V
France

Great stay
Magnificent dives in terms of coral reefs and fish density, very motivated and attentive dive guides, very comfortable traditional phinsi type boat with delicious and varied local cuisine. Once again, a big thank you to the whole crew for this dream stay
Recommended for
Magnificent dives, comfortable boat and caring crew
26 Apr, 2024

9.2 Superb
Giorgio C
Italy

Fantastic
The beauty of places
Recommended for
Crew, dives and guides, meravillous places
29 Jun, 2024

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9.2 Superb
Johannes S
Germany

Top value for money
We took an 11 day trip to Misool and Dampier. The crew and dive guides led by Ungcke were very friendly and absolutely professional. There were no errors – and if there were, we didn't notice them. The food was also superb. If you order in advance, you get very good vegetarian or vegan food (you get an extra portion of almost every normal dish). Only our cabin (No. 7) was really very very small. On normal days we were able to dive four times (31 dives in 11 days) and visited all known dive sites. We would book our next trip to Raja Ampat with Mari again:)
Recommended for
Good organization. Great guides. Value for money.
28 Jan, 2026

10 Exceptional
Verena P
Germany

Super nice dive trip!
Manta Rays, reef sharks, turtles and sooo many fishes!! Land excursions to beautiful view points. Yummy breakfast after the morning dive and always changing varieties of lunch and dinner even for veg. Nice places on the boat to hang out, especially the sun deck. Cabins very clean and comfortable with air con for hit times in the day and hot shower, very nice after a long exhausting dive! Whole schedule in time, Airport transfer no Problem!
Recommended for
Best dive sites, nice crew & boat, good food
27 Mar, 2019

9.6 Exceptional
Murray T
Canada

Fantastic Crew and every dive event well prepared!
Viewing giant ocean manta and many nudibranchs.
Recommended for
Friendly crew with plenty of fun. Excellent Cook!
11 Apr, 2024

8.8 Fabulous
Jean-Marc B
France

A dream come true!
Diving on the sites of Misool: richness, diversity, beauty of the fauna and floraDives on Gam: mantasThe 2 shore exitsRest and relaxation on the boat
Recommended for
quality and interest of the dive sites; quality of the dive guide; Varied and quality meals
18 Feb, 2023

8.8 Fabulous
Cihan B
Germany

Nice divespots and nice crew
Good organized crew, and some good divespots if you like makro
Recommended for
Very nice Cabins, well organized and friendly crew
18 Jan, 2019

8.4 Very good
Pedro C
Portugal

Good times in experient hands!
The diving spots were incredible. The guides allways knew well the spots and showed amazing things. The island tour was also great!
Recommended for
Staff organization, cabin confort, meals served.
17 Oct, 2019

8.8 Fabulous
Becky B
United States

Such a comfortable boat!!
Lovely corals, tons of fish, & OCEANIC MANTAS!!!
Recommended for
Comfort, good food, warm showers.
27 Dec, 2017

10 Exceptional
Alexandra R
United Kingdom

Fantastic crew,boat and diving experience
Feeling like you were in an aquarium most the dives. I saw many little critters for the first time. All round great liveaboard trip.
Recommended for
Crew, diving, food
29 Apr, 2023