Blue Shark One, Maldives

8.3 Very good

En-Suite bathrooms
Aircon Cabins
Non-Diver (Snorkeler) Friendly
Warm Water Showers

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“Beautiful underwater experience, inspiring people, good variation of food and excellent service for meals and diving.”
Daniel B, Canada

Highlights

Dive with manta rays, whale sharks, and reef sharks in the Maldives
Environmentally friendly yacht with reusable bamboo straws and biodegradable toiletries
Perfect for private charters up to 16 persons

The 30m Blue Shark One yacht week-long dive liveaboard trips in the Maldives. She accommodates just 16 guests in 9 comfortable cabins. All cabins are located on the lower deck and come with a double plus single bed, individually controlled air-conditioning and en-suite bathroom. Social areas include the air-conditioned salon and dining room where 3 meals per day plus snacks will be served buffet-style. The cuisine is a mixture of international and Maldivian dishes, with a wide variety to suit everyone. The upper deck is home to the large sundeck and has cushioned loungers and beanbags for relaxing in between dives. Guests can also relax in a partially shaded outdoor lounge area. The crew of the Bue Shark One strives to be environmentally-friendly and offer guests refillable aluminium bottles, reusable bamboo straws and biodegradable toiletries in the bathrooms.

The Blue Shark 1 liveaboard offers several exciting diving itineraries in the Maldives. Diving in the Maldives offers the chance to dive with manta rays, whale sharks and reef sharks in the crystal clear waters of the Central Atolls. Diving takes place from the dedicated dive Dhoni, to maximise quiet and space on the main vessel. The Blue Shark One yacht is also available for private charters of up to 16 people for diving, snorkelling and cruising the Maldivian Atolls.

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Included: VAT, Fuel Surcharge, Port Fees, Visas and Fees, Airport Transfer, Drinking Water, Tea & Coffee, Welcome Cocktails, Beach BBQ, Full-Board Meal Plan (All meals), Snacks, Diving Package, Fishing, Land Excursions, Beach Towels, Cabin Towels, Deck Towels.

Required Extras: Environment Tax (6 USD / day).

Optional Extras: Dive Insurance (20 USD), Gratuities, Alcoholic Beverages, Soft drinks, Extra Dives (45 USD), Nitrox Course (200 USD), Private Dive Guide, Rental Gear, Scuba Diving Courses (200-300 USD), Snorkel Gear, WiFi internet (30 USD / week).

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Boat features

En-Suite bathrooms
Aircon Cabins
Non-Diver (Snorkeler) Friendly
Warm Water Showers
Sun Deck
Paid Internet
Non-Smoking Rooms
Custom built for diving
Charging stations
Indoor Saloon
Library
Outdoor Dining
Audio & video entertainment
Fishing
Available for Charter
Local & International Crew
Separate Rinse for u/w Camera
Outside Showers
Leisure Deck
Daily housekeeping
Bar

Food & Drinks

Vegetarian Options
Beer available
Wine Available
Beach BBQ
Welcome Cocktails
Snacks All Day
Buffet style
Western Food
Local Food

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

DIN Adaptors
Rinse Hoses
Tenders for diving
Sidemount Diving

Languages Spoken

The crew speaks English and German.

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: 2002

Length: 30 meters

Beam: 9 meters

Top speed: 12 knots

Cruising speed: 10 knots

Engines: Yanmar 350PS

Max guests: 16

Number of cabins: 8

Number of bathrooms: 9

Tenders: 1 diving dhoni

Water capacity: 6000 liters

Fuel capacity: 10 tons

Freshwater maker: 6 tons per day

Boat navigation and safety

Depth Sounder
GPS
Radio VHF/DSC/SSB
Emergency Rafts
Life Vests
Fire Alarm & Fire Extinguishers
Oxygen
First Aid Kits
Satellite & mobile phones
Bilge pump alarm
Engine room CCTV
Crew trained in first aid

Blue Shark One Reviews

8.3 Very good
30 Verified Reviews

Vessel

7.1
Crew

8.3
Food

9.3
Diving

8.7
Value

8.1

10 Exceptional
Enrique M
United States

Amazing!!! My only complaint on the trip is that I had to disembark the boat..😄
Everything about this trip was on point. From the BBQ on the beach and the live music, to the amazing crew and chef on the boat, to the great diving and dive guides. Dove with a Whaleshark and it was amazing. Top notch organization!!!🐙🦈🐟🐋
Recommended for
Crew, diving, food.
21 Aug, 2019

9.6 Exceptional
joerg F
Germany

Amazing
Whale sharks, gray reef sharks without end, great fellow human beings, divers, manta rays,
Recommended for
Endless hours of sunshine ,diving without face mask ,ocean reasonably healthy to see
02 May, 2021

Translated from German

8.4 Very good
Amanda K
Denmark

Amazing experience
- Seeing a big Manta ray swimming under our boat in the evening - Being surrounded by 60+ nurse sharks at one of the dive spots, it was incredible! - Eating a lot of delicious and local food onboard - Seeing how the locals are living on a local island - Meeting new divers and sharing an unforgettable experience - Just being on the boat and watching the sea - Diving at beautiful reefs and diving in channels with strong current - Fishing with the crew - Seeing a leopard shark
Recommended for
All our 16 dives, the food onboard and the beautiful nature around us.
08 Aug, 2022

8.0 Very good
Ingemar H
Sweden

It's a good liveaboard at a lower standard then many of the other boats
Any liveaboard in the maldives is amazing because of the animals there. There is ofcourse different standards of liveaboards and this one is somewhat lower than others. With that said, it was still great
Recommended for
The guides, the dives and the sharks
29 Jan, 2022

10 Exceptional
Michelle B
Denmark

Best experience ever
We saw whaleshark, lots of mantarays, stingrays, eaglerays, different sharks, beautiful corals everything what is nice to see under Water? It was fun trying to dive in strong currents. Lucky we had reefhooks with us. The nightdive with mantarays was also very memorable:-) Nice and friendly crew and diveinstructors:-) can’t say anything negative about this trip. It was amazing all the way through:-)
Recommended for
divesites, food, divebriefing and of course the company:)
29 Jan, 2020

9.6 Exceptional
Mickael D
France

An exceptional week!
The dives, all the meals! and the guides and crew always at the top!
Recommended for
The crew! Diving and food
29 Sep, 2021

Translated from French

8.0 Very good
Daniel B
Canada

A great experience to discover Maldives
Beautiful underwater experience, inspiring people, good variation of food and excellent service for meals and diving.
Recommended for
Being, Sea, Extraordinary
14 Aug, 2022

9.6 Exceptional
Joshua B
United Kingdom

Amazing!
Night scuba dive with manta rays, variety in dive sites visited and snorkelling with a whale shark. The crew were very friendly and accommodating, the dive sites were incredible and far exceeded my expectations. This was my first liveaboard and I couldn't find anything to fault. Overall had an amazing experience!
Recommended for
Diving experiences, staff friendliness and food
18 Feb, 2022

8.0 Very good
Erik F
Norway

Relaxed atmosphere
The Tiger shark dives were the absolute highlight. We also had a very nice close encounter with a curious Manta.
Recommended for
The trip covered many atolls. We dived at rarely visited dive sites. The dive guides were very nice.
29 Dec, 2020

10 Exceptional
Marek K
Poland

Unforgettable trip, great dive guides, ideal boat and super friendly crew.
plenty of different sharks on almost every dive, night and day dives with mantas, night snorkling with whale sharks, night dive with nurse sharks, diving with tens of sting rays, fan and coral garden with uncountable numbers of banannafish
Recommended for
very experienced dive guides with true inside knowledge of the sites, giving true freedom during dives; excellent and varied dive sites; full realisation of the planned route
18 Feb, 2021

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9.2 Superb
Mickaël L
France

Superb cruise.
Luckily, we saw all the pelagics we were looking for: manta rays, whale sharks, coral sharks, reef sharks... and much more.The meals and service on board are of a high quality. Diving from the Dhoni is easy and comfortable.
Recommended for
Meals, crew service, dives.
29 Jan, 2022

6.0 Review score
Vladislav P
Germany

Cruise a little disappointing
In Fuvahmulah, 3 dives with tiger sharks that we see very close and for a long time. Passes where you can come across grey sharks, huge schools of carangues, tuna, barracudas and a multitude of reef fish (special mention for the magnificent oriental sweetlips). Two encounters with whale sharks, at night, while snorkeling.
Recommended for
Diving with tiger sharks. Encounter with thresher sharks. The pass with a lot of grey sharks.
29 Jan, 2022

7.6 Good
MARA Z
Italy

Beautiful experience to repeat
Very beautiful dive sites
Recommended for
Quality of food, courtesy and availability of the crew
29 Jan, 2022

7.2 Good
ARNOLD H
Germany

Cozy cruiser
Manta light show at night & cleaning station circus, whaleshark snorkeling, great shark drift dives... pictureperfect
Recommended for
Supernice crew, awesome food, the dives...
02 May, 2021

8.0 Very good
Larbi H
Norway

The Journey of Life
On the Blue Shark One Boat from start to finish!
Recommended for
Dive Sites,Food,Crew
03 Jan, 2020

10 Exceptional
Magdalena L
Austria

New experiences gained, happy encounters, nice people and an extremely friendly, great crew
Great dive sites with many happy encounters underwater
Recommended for
Great crew, great guides, cozy atmosphere
14 Jan, 2020

10 Exceptional
Sarah Katharina K
Germany

Perfect trip
Every dive was beautiful and we got to see lots of Mantas and sharks. The crew was super helpful and accommodating and the dive guides were very knowledgeable, making us feel safe at all times. The food was always fresh and delicious, everything was perfect!
Recommended for
Dive sites, Food, Crew
18 Mar, 2022

9.6 Exceptional
Matthieu L
France

Excellent week on the Blue Shark One in the Central Atolls, highly recommended!
Outstanding dives, very comfortable boat, great food, very friendly crew, good daily pace.Highly recommended, to do again next year!
Recommended for
Quality of dives, Friendliness of the crew, Comfort of the boat
29 Jan, 2020

6.4 Review score
Olga A
United States

Pleasant experience of diving.
Locating all 4 endemic species
Recommended for
Learning about marine life of the Indian Ocean, a few dive sites, improving skills for channel diving.
20 Oct, 2021

9.2 Superb
Rhiannon M
Australia

A great experience!
Diving with mantas and a whaleshark, along with turtles, sharks, rays and plenty of fish life. The food! Cruising the Atolls...
Recommended for
The crew, the people we met and the service
07 May, 2020

9.2 Superb
Torsten B
Denmark

Very clean and comfortable, great diving and guides. No credit card services on board, bring cash :-(
Nurse shark twilight dive, some of the pinnacles are marvelous. No luck with hammerheads and whale sharks, yet.
Recommended for
The cabins are cozy, if small. The crew is very friendly and does everything to make it a memorable trip.
02 May, 2021

8.4 Very good
MANILA T
San Marino

Satisfied!!
diving with manta rays, always the TOP
Recommended for
nice dives with trained guides and . excellent assistance on the boat and the kitchen
18 Mar, 2022

Translated from Italian

9.2 Superb
Wolfgang L
Germany

Diving without a suit, great.
A lot of nurse sharks above us.
Recommended for
Water temperature, abundance of fish, friendliness
05 Aug, 2022

6.8 Review score
Claire B
France

Boat a bit old and a nice refurbishmnt would be nice. Good itinerary ftom Gan and many dives. Unfortunately there is no nitrox available which is a problem as most of the dives are rather deep. The or
The tiger dives with the tiger sharks inFuvamulah
Recommended for
Itinerary from Gan (not any other boats during the first week), some trips to remote islands
29 Jan, 2022

5.2 Review score
Aminul I
Bangladesh

It's an okay trip
Tiger sharks
Recommended for
Diving with the tiger sharks
13 Dec, 2021

9.2 Superb
Melvin M
United States

Awesome dive experience!
The mantas and the night dive with nurse sharks
Recommended for
Whale sharks, Mantas an nurse sharks
28 Mar, 2020

6.4 Review score
Arkadiusz D
Poland

Good diving, but cockroaches on the boat spoiled the trip
Cockroaches on the ship, a lot of them, me and another guest even found it in the luggage, packing for departure. Crew was super nice, cleaning rooms couple times a day, trying to do whatever possible to make up for this. Similar the dive guides - super cool guys, providing great diving experience, unfortunately one aspect spoiled the trip. I was so freaked out, finding one of them in my bedding, that I started sleeping on the front upper deck, where I didn't see them.
Recommended for
Crew, diving, weather
29 Sep, 2021

6.4 Review score
Juan Jose Tahiche D
Spain

Nice diving week in an old poorly maintained boat
We obviously enjoyed the diving, specially the tiger sharks and the mantas, which are a blast. We even saw a Thresher shark which was unexpected, so no complaints about diving. However, having tried many liveaboards in the past, I would not recommend this boat. There are a number of issues. First of all, the boat is not so big. We were only seven divers and that was fine, but I cannot imagine being comfortable there with a full boat (16 pax+12 crew). There are only six sunbeds, and only four of them are in a shaded area. Seats in the main deck area are not particularly comfortable. Not a lot of space to relax out of the cabins. All cabins are in the lower deck, very small and with just a tiny porthole (there are cabins with big windows in the upper deck, but those are reserved for the crew. In other boats I have travelled, it is the other way around). When we arrived we were offered one of the smallest cabins, near the bow. Being only four cabins occupied we requested to change and there was no problem to get a slightly bigger room, but we believe that should have been the first choice. Air conditioning in the cabin is either off (and you sweat) or on (and you freeze). Intermediate temperatures or fan speeds do not seem to make any difference. Bathrooms look old but are big (half the room size) and I have to say the shower works pretty well. Food was simple but tasty and we loved the sashimi the cook made a couple of times with the catch of the day. However, it was always served inside and we were disappointed that at least the days we were moored in Fuvahmulah, protected of the wind, breakfast or dinner would not be served in the front table (outside). It would have been nice. We mentioned it, but were told the table was not big enough (we were only seven!). In between dives snacks were poor, just crackers and oreos, and if you had a beer or a Coke at night and wanted some peanuts, you have to buy them at 7,50$. I think this is not right, in every other liveaboard I have been this is complimentary. Another thing that's not right is to charge us for the land tour we did in Fuvahmulah. It was 40$ for the whole boat, which is not much, but it's a bad detail. That should be included in the cruise price. Hell, it's such a small money that should be given for free! And lastly about the boat, which I think is the worst, there are small cockroaches everywhere: in the main area, in the cabins, over your luggage and even in the kitchen. I understand is a tropical area, and blah, blah, but I never saw this in any other ship. This issue is nasty and needs to be addressed ASAP. To end with a good note, I have to say that the dhoni crew and the divemasters are great and at the end of the day saved the trip. Young, enthusiastic, helpful, friendly and they know what they are doing. Diving spots are great, the tiger sharks are fenomenal animals to watch and the operation in Fuvahmulah seemed pretty profesional and safe to me. The manta point in Addu is not really at 20 meters. The deepest part is at 30m, so in these dives we would have appreciated some Nitrox to gain some bottom time. But anyway, it's always great to see the mantas and the divemasters had the knowledge to take us there at the right tide moment to find them.
Recommended for
Tiger sharks, mantas and a professional diving crew
17 Nov, 2021

4.4 Review score
Li P
Canada

Boat in bad conditions
There are cockroaches on the boat. The bunk beds in the cabins are very outdated and extremely uncomfortable. Boat is really old and it shows. The dives were lackluster other than the tiger shark dives. I went in November and it was not the right time to go. The crew and the dives guides were great, but can’t make up for an otherwise bad experience.
Recommended for
Tiger shark dives were cool
13 Dec, 2021