Eco Blue Liveaboard, Maldives

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Highlights

  • Large emphasis placed on marine conservation with biodegradable shampoo and shower gel, bamboo straws, and aluminum drinking bottles provided for guests
  • Snorkel with manta rays and whale sharks at Hanifaru bay
  • Family cruises available with kayaking, stand up paddle-boarding, and night fishing

The MV Eco Blue yacht offers year-round liveaboard diving to some of the best dive sites in the Maldives. Catering to 20 guests in 11 cabins, she offers a budget-friendly way to explore the Maldives. Each cabin has individually controlled AC and comes with either double or double and single beds. Social areas include the dining room, lounge with entertainment, and sun deck with loungers to relax in-between dives. There is a focus on the environment and sustainability, and they produce their own drinking water, have reusable bamboo straws, and offer biodegradable toiletries, as well as taking part in many other efforts to be eco-friendly.

Diving on board the Eco Blue Maldives takes place from the separate fully-equipped dive dhoni, There is a choice of itineraries, ranging from 7 - 14 nights, each visiting some of the best atolls in the Maldives. The Central Atolls tour is Male-Male, stopping at the north and south Male Atolls, Ari Atoll, and Vaavu Atoll, in the summer months the Baa Atoll is on offer including the famous Hanifaru Bay, or for those who have more time there are south routes to the more remote areas of Thaa and the deep south Atolls. There are also dedicated ‘Family Cruises’ available, where the focus of the trip is to have ‘fun with the kids’. Two dives a day are offered, along with other fun activities such as stand-up paddleboarding, kayaking, and snorkeling.

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Included: VAT, Fuel Surcharge, National Park Fees, Port Fees, Visas and Fees, Drinking Water, Tea & Coffee, Welcome Cocktails, Beach BBQ, Full-Board Meal Plan (All meals), Snacks, Diving Package, Snorkeling Guide, Stand Up Paddleboard, Beach Towels, Cabin Towels, Deck Towels.

Required Extras: Dive Insurance (20 USD), Environment Tax (6 USD per day).

Optional Extras: Gratuities (10 USD per day), Local Flights, Alcoholic Beverages, Soft drinks, Extra Dives (45 USD per tank), Nitrox, Nitrox Course (200 USD), Private Dive Guide, Rental Gear, Scuba Diving Courses (200-300 USD), WiFi internet (30 USD per week).

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Boat features

  • Camera Station
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Audio & video entertainment
  • Library
  • Aircon Cabins
  • Sun Deck
  • Indoor Saloon
  • Non-Diver (Snorkeler) Friendly
  • Warm Water Showers
  • Camera room with table and charging point
  • Custom built for diving
  • Charging stations
  • En-Suite bathrooms
  • Paid Internet
  • Non-Smoking Rooms
  • Outside Showers
  • Seaview Cabins
  • Snorkeling Equipment
  • Separate Rinse for u/w Camera
  • Dedicated Local & International Crew
  • Leisure Deck
  • Bar
  • Stand Up Paddleboard

Food & Drinks

  • Western Food
  • Local Food
  • Vegetarian Options
  • Buffet style
  • Beer available
  • Snacks All Day
  • Fine Wines Selection
  • Beach BBQ
  • Welcome Cocktails
  • Full-board Option

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
  • Nitrox available
  • Rinse Hoses
  • Dive deck
  • Tenders for diving
  • Sidemount Diving

The crew speaks English and German.


Gear Rental

There is diving gear available on this boat. Please provide your rental needs on the booking form. See below for further details on inclusions and pricing. Show prices.


Boat Specifications

  • Year built 2002
  • Year renovated 2017
  • Length 32 meters
  • Beam 10 meters
  • Top speed 12 knots
  • Cruising speed 10 knots
  • Max guests 22
  • Number of cabins 12
  • Number of bathrooms 12
  • Tenders 1 dhoni diving
  • Water capacity 6000 liters
  • Fuel capacity 10 tons
  • Freshwater maker 6 tons per day

Boat Navigation and Safety

  • Radar
  • GPS
  • Radio VHF/DSC/SSB
  • Emergency Rafts
  • Life Vests
  • Fire Alarm & Fire Extinguishers
  • Oxygen
  • First Aid Kits
  • Satellite & mobile phones
  • Search light

Eco Blue Reviews

  • 9.0 Superb
  • 74 Verified Reviews
  1. Vessel
    8.3
  2. Crew
    8.8
  3. Food
    9.5
  4. Diving
    9.3
  5. Value
    9.0
  • 9.6 Exceptional
  • Lilian B
  • Slovenia Slovenia
Everythinh perfect. only too much food. It is a waste of resources..

Diving

Recommended for
Diving, friendship, nice boat
  • 9.6 Exceptional
  • Pamela H
  • United States United States
Sharks Sharks Sharks! Exceeded expectations.

Sharks and pelagics - tiger sharks, spinner sharks, nurse sharks, whale sharks, manta rays, eagle rays, and all the "normal" reef life you'd expect - more morays than I've ever seen, huge schools of reef fish, batfish, trevally jacks. Channel diving - like being un an underwater hurricane but unparalleled "fish parade" including hundreds of sharks, then floating like Superman over the reef once releasing near NDL. Some very cool special dives (Tiger Zoo on Fuvahmulah; Fish Factory w/ many Spinners, some Reef and even a Bull Shark; Fish Tank with dozens of stingrays and hundreds of Moray Eels; a frenzied Nurse Shark dive). Professional, friendly, and customer service-focused crew, very helpful. Three late afternoon sunset stops on uninhabited tropical islands. Crossing the equator. Overall just an amazing trip.

Recommended for
Sharks. Channel diving. Boat crew.
  • 9.6 Exceptional
  • Raymond C
  • United Kingdom United Kingdom
Absolutely brilliant dive trip!!!

Whale Sharks, Mantas and sharks. Friendly dive team. Crew and dive guide were excellent, including the dive guide duo entertainment.

Recommended for
Diving, eating and relaxing.
  • 9.6 Exceptional
  • Carolyn S
  • United States United States
Very competent dive guides that respect sea creatures.

Incredible encounters with manta rays. Great nurse shark night encounter, this was my fourth time doing this night time shark dive with different boats and this was the best approach to these animals.

Recommended for
Very good dive guides, very respectful of sea life, great manta and shark encounters, nice island visits.
  • 9.6 Exceptional
  • INHEE J
  • South Korea South Korea
Out of world

Mantas, a guitar shark, lots of reef sharks, being up close and personal with lots of sharks and eagle rays during night diving and friendly companion divers and guides.

Recommended for
All I can think is diving, big sea creatures I can encounter easily, quiet time at time
  • 7.2 Good
  • Jeremie T
  • France France
First cruise in maldives

We were on the first trip of the boat so everything was new , we have been to hanifarubay during august so we manage to see around 35 mantas at the same spot. More over the manager allowed us to stay 2days on hanifaru bay to be able to spend more times with mantas !

Recommended for
Hanifaru bay!!! Low number of divers, friendly crew
  • 8.0 Very good
  • Matthew H
  • United States United States
It was a great bucket list experience.

Highlight of the trip was the diving. The Dive masters were great and let us create great memories like crossing the equator and becoming 'shellbacks'. When they found out we were sitting at 99 dives and they decided to scheduled a night dive on the last day to get us to a 100 dives. That night the crew toasted our 100th dive. Great liveaboard experience.

Recommended for
Diving, Visiting villages on the trip, and the crew was awesome.
  • 9.6 Exceptional
  • WONKYU L
  • South Korea South Korea
Fun to dive!

Awesome dive experience with awesome guides, crews and food! All three dive guides are very friendly, well experienced and humorous. Crews are also very friendly and well serving. Foods they prepare was also top notch in my three times of live-aboard experience. No regrets by choosing Eco Blue for diving, fun to dive!

Recommended for
Dive Guides, Crews, Food
  • 9.6 Exceptional
  • Mirco M
  • Germany Germany
Great liveaboard, awesome crew, really good diving

We booked a 11 day trip on MV Eco Blue in October 2017. Everything was well planned and organized. Still the route the boat and the choice of dive sites was handled very flexible due to weather conditions and wishes of the divers. We appreciated that very much because it gave us the chance to focus on the marine life we wanted to see the most. In our trip we saw plenty mantas, two whale sharks and many reef sharks as well as turtles. We can recommend diving in the Maldives in general and especially on the MV Eco Blue. The two guides made really a good job above and under water with organizing everything, showing us the marine life and helping wherever possible. The boat was perfectly managed by Alex who tried to meet all of our specific wishes. The food on the boat was very good. It was a mixture of western and Asian food. The crew tried to meet all of the specific wishes as well. They made extra food for us because we are vegetarian and tried to catch the desired fish for some of the other guests. All in all we had a great experience on the Eco Blue and could see all of the marine life we wished to see. We can especially recommend this boat and we are considering to book another tour on MV Eco Blue in the atolls at the south of the Maldives.

Recommended for
Marine Live, organization, relaxed atmosphere
  • 9.6 Exceptional
  • Mirco M
  • Germany Germany
Great liveaboard, awesome crew, really good diving

We booked a 11 day trip on MV Eco Blue in October 2017. Everything was well planned and organized. Still the route the boat and the choice of dive sites was handled very flexible due to weather conditions and wishes of the divers. We appreciated that very much because it gave us the chance to focus on the marine life we wanted to see the most. In our trip we saw plenty mantas, two whale sharks and many reef sharks as well as turtles. We can recommend diving in the Maldives in general and especially on the MV Eco Blue. The two guides made really a good job above and under water with organizing everything, showing us the marine life and helping wherever possible. The boat was perfectly managed by Alex who tried to meet all of our specific wishes. The food on the boat was very good. It was a mixture of western and Asian food. The crew tried to meet all of the specific wishes as well. They made extra food for us because we are vegetarian and tried to catch the desired fish for some of the other guests. All in all we had a great experience on the Eco Blue and could see all of the marine life we wished to see. We can especially recommend this boat and we are considering to book another tour on MV Eco Blue in the atolls at the south of the Maldives.

Recommended for
Marine Live, organization, relaxed atmosphere