Eco Blue Liveaboard, Maldives

9.0 Superb

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

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“Great dives in strong currents with lots of sharks and memorable manata encounters.”
Micky L, Switzerland

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

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

Food & Drinks

Vegetarian Options
Beer available
Full-board Option
Beach BBQ
Fine Wines Selection
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

Nitrox available
DIN Adaptors
Rinse Hoses
Dive deck
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

Cabin Types

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: 11

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

Vessel

8.3
Crew

8.8
Food

9.5
Diving

9.3
Value

9.0

8.8 Fabulous
Michael V
Austria

Big fish as far as the eye can see!
Reef sharks, manta rays, whale shark, great reefs
Recommended for
Great dives, great crew, great food
05 Jun, 2018

Translated from German

9.2 Superb
Torsten B
Denmark

Very comfortable stay with excellent guides!
Diving with reef sharks and mantas, plus wonderful coral fish. Need to come back for hammerheads and whale sharks, though ... ;-)
Recommended for
The dive guides, diving with sharks and mantas, the comfortable, laid-back atmosphere on board.
27 Dec, 2020

9.2 Superb
Serge N
Switzerland

Very nice cruise
Diving to meet the whale shark!!Very nice varied divingThe friendliness and professionalism of the crew
Recommended for
Crew, guide, meal
20 Nov, 2018

Translated from French

9.6 Exceptional
Micky L
Switzerland

Great!!!
Great dives in strong currents with lots of sharks and memorable manata encounters.
Recommended for
Good boat, great crew and great guests
11 Jan, 2021

9.6 Exceptional
Mirco M
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
08 Nov, 2017

9.2 Superb
Gerald K
Austria

Fantastic relaxation in a very friendly atmosphere!
Unbelievable number of big fish, fantastic reefs, great crew and finally away from the Corona hype!
Recommended for
Underwater World Crew Food
03 Dec, 2021

Translated from German

9.6 Exceptional
Marc D
Switzerland

Awsome diving trip in the Maldived
night dive with mantas and nursesharks great channel dives very friendly and helpful crew
Recommended for
international guests, great crew, awsome dives
08 Oct, 2019

9.6 Exceptional
Marc D
Switzerland

Awsome diving trip in the Maldived
night dive with mantas and nursesharksgreat channel divesvery friendly and helpful crew
Recommended for
international guests, great crew, awsome dives
08 Oct, 2019

10 Exceptional
Olivier P
Canada

Amazing experience.
Thanks to Alex, Shamoon and Sharko, this was a unforgettable diving experience. The rest of the crew made life aboard easy going with a real personal touch. Friendly, and funny. Thank you so much.
Recommended for
The whole crew is great. From the kitchen to the underwater guides and the boat crews.
03 Mar, 2018

10 Exceptional
Olivier P
Canada

Amazing experience.
Thanks to Alex, Shamoon and Sharko, this was a unforgettable diving experience. The rest of the crew made life aboard easy going with a real personal touch. Friendly, and funny. Thank you so much.
Recommended for
The whole crew is great. From the kitchen to the underwater guides and the boat crews.
03 Mar, 2018

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9.0 Superb
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9.2 Superb
Jeannine H
Switzerland

Great safari with incredible crew
Great route with lots of sightings of manta rays, whale sharks, sharks! Super good and well-equipped crew that fulfills every wish! Very good dive guides, well-rehearsed team and very attentive! We will be back!
Recommended for
Crew, Food, Diveguides
10 Oct, 2021

8.0 Very good
jacopo C
Italy

A wonderful eco blue experience
I had a great experience in Maldives with this boat, the crew was amazing and the dive sites were selected very well
Recommended for
Crew. Boat. Good.
20 Feb, 2026

10 Exceptional
Edel F
Ireland

Epic
All round amazing trip from start to finish, AMAZING dives with a very fun and accommodating crew! Thanks so much for an epic week!
Recommended for
People, dives, crew
09 Sep, 2020

9.6 Exceptional
Boris T
Croatia

The atmosphere and diving were very good, the crew took care of us completely!
- Tiger sharks- Wahlhai, who didn't want to leave at all, from 22:00 until sometime after 2:30h:-)!- despite bad weather at times - the mood was good, you can make friends or acquaintances on such a trip!
Recommended for
- Generally the diving experiences, - Nice and courteous crew, - The magnificent view and the ride through the atolls!
14 Apr, 2021

8.8 Fabulous
Michele B
Switzerland

Great liveaboard at a great price
everything was great from A-Z.Great dive sites with lots of sharks, manta rays, grey nurse shark :-)Good service, nice room, nice places to relax on the boat.2x visit to an island, once with dinner.
Recommended for
Boat, Dive Sites, Crew
05 Jun, 2018

8.0 Very good
Matthew H
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.
01 Apr, 2018

10 Exceptional
Noémie O
Switzerland

Top experience :)
All the wonderful underwater creatures. Mantas, eaglerays, whalesarks, turtles, shoals, small animals, moray eels, a wide variety of sharks.It was a wonderful experience and every day offered endless small and big joys.
Recommended for
Dive spots, guides, food
10 Oct, 2021

10 Exceptional
Tanya B
Ireland

Would definitely recommend Ecoblue
I loved diving with Ecoblue, and was so happy to see my first whale shark (snorkelling), along with lots of mantas and sharks. The team is friendly, hard working and knowledgeable. Our dive guides were Shamoon, Amir and Alex. I always felt safe with them, and they did their best to make the experience amazing for us, as well as being a lot of fun. There were a couple of night dives that were so memorable - the first was with mantas and the second with sharks. The BBQ on a picture-perfect tropical island was a lovely experience, too, and we spent the evening chatting and listening to Shamoon and Imad's live music under the stars. The boat was clean and stocked with everything you needed for a comfortable week. The showers were always hot. The company makes an effort environmentally by providing refillable water bottles, avoiding single use plastics where possible, offering draft beer, and providing non-toxic shower gel and shampoo. In the water they got us all to use reef hooks to prevent damage to the reef and they don't feed sharks. I did the Central Atolls trip in November and although the corals were not always pristine there was so much interesting wildlife that the entire experience was fantastic. Thank you, Ecoblue!
Recommended for
Environmentally aware, superb wildlife, great dive guides and crew
20 Nov, 2018

10 Exceptional
Zdenek P
Czech Republic

A friendly environment with good service
Vacation with diving
Recommended for
Diving, Food and Service
14 Feb, 2018

10 Exceptional
Steve B
United States

Lifechanging experience that will be hard to beat!
The highlight of this trip was Moofushi Corner. The simplicity of swimming against the current with hundreds of thousands of other fish, mimics the feeling of flying. Add in a very curious baby eagle ray, and it makes the experience magical. Would highly recommend and will certainly look to visit again and dive with Eco Blue!
Recommended for
Top quality dive sites, amazing dive guide and crew, positive vibes
20 Oct, 2020

9.2 Superb
Rick V
Netherlands

Amazing experience, great Divesspots
We saw so many Sharks specially Greysharks/Whitetipped/ Blacktipped. It was one of my best experience of my life, marina life is great, the spots are amazing. I plan to ga again. !!!recommendable!!!! again again ;)
Recommended for
Good/funny Crew, greats Divespots, Super Dive Guids
03 Jan, 2018

9.6 Exceptional
Carolyn S
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.
14 Nov, 2019

9.6 Exceptional
Moshe R
United States

Excellent scuba diving safari
Whale sharks!
Recommended for
Dive guides , Dive sites , safety
14 Apr, 2021

9.2 Superb
Michaela H
Germany

Liveaboard as it should be
A great trip with dives, island evenings, great flair on board, the environmental aspect that should serve as a model for many other liveaboard boats. Everything was great!!
Recommended for
The dives (especially the night dive), the crew, the food
02 Mar, 2020

8.8 Fabulous
Yann V
France

Great week on the boat, amazing diving, friendly staff & guides, great food
We really enjoyed our trip on Eco Blue. On the positive side: the boat is fairly spatious, with plenty of space to hangout / chill / relax before, between or after the dives. The dives were amazing: I guess we were fairly lucky, we had 3 amazing dives with mantas (1 at night, 2 during the day), got to snorkel with a whaleshark at the back of the boat, saw plenty of sharks & turtles, did some nice drifts in the current and got to see plenty of smaller fishes / crabs and other crustaceans. The staff & guides were super friendly, and the atmosphere on board was very relaxed. And most importantly, the food was amazing, super tasty and varied during the entire stay. On the "meh" side: we were a bit disappointed by the cabins, they looked a bit more spacious on the photos than in reality. We also would have preferred spending a bit more time away from Male and dive more in Ari / Vaavu atolls, being back at the airport marina's on Saturday at midday for a Sunday departure was a bit early, as there is not much to do when the boat is anchored in the marina.
Recommended for
Night dive with mantas, snorkeling with whale shark, food
14 Apr, 2021

9.2 Superb
Alain C
France

Super
All
Recommended for
Comfort, service, availability
14 Feb, 2018

Translated from Spanish

9.6 Exceptional
Marcin P
Poland

Super !
Every day was the highlights!
Recommended for
Route , Tauchführer , atmosphere
27 Dec, 2017

9.2 Superb
Manfred B
Germany

Great atmosphere and great dives
Manta Encounter
Recommended for
Night dive with nurse sharks, diving with manta rays, BBQ on the island
28 May, 2019

9.6 Exceptional
Silke G
Germany

Great Week of Diving
My wife and I really enjoyed the dive safari around the central atolls on Eco Blue. Pros: the boat is big enough with ample space to hangout and relax. Everything is straight forward without being too fancy. We had one of the upper deck cabins which was spacious enough for an 8-day trip. Storage is plenty with shelfs & hangers. The bathroom is a combination of all-in-one as you find it on most liveaboards (we prefer separate shower; however this was not a show-stopper at all). The room and bathroom have ventilation/windows which was nice getting a cool breeze in, every now and then. The cuisine was outstanding, plentiful and tasty (with a nice variety of salads, vegetables, fish, meat, noodles, etc.). On the drinking part there was a good variation of beer, wine, and other liquor. Vessel & dhoni: both were clean and fully functional to Maldives standards. Given that we were going at the end of the season, some minor wear & tear was to be expected but did not in any case affect the dive operation. Staff/dive guides/briefing: Just outstanding, very friendly, approachable and helpful at any time, the dive briefings & announcements were one of a kind clearly stating the dive objective, safety-, entry-, exit- strategy with detailed hand-drawn dive maps. The boat/dhoni captain & crew together with the dive guides hit the dive locations & current situation spot on. We had, as expected, some rougher seas during the dives, but always were picked-up without delay keeping every bodies safety the upmost priority. Diving: Given the time of the year May 2021, the vis was still fine. The dives were generally 60 minutes long or 50 bar. Buddy pairs could ‘go up’ as they got low on Nitrox/NDL. Diving was a mix of strong, medium and almost no current experience. We did one night-dive with mantas, one night-snorkeling with wale sharks, a dawn dive with nurse sharks (amazing !!) and two wreck dives. Despite the variant visibility we were very lucky to see plenty of sharks, turtles, rays, octopus, moray eels, lots of small critters and fish. Dive companion: As this is the most ‘unknown’ until you arrive on the liveaboard, we truly enjoyed the international mix containing of Germans (11, German-operated boat), Dutch (2), English (1) French (1), Russian (2). Generally, the diver-level was advanced, with photographers, just-divers and two doing his OW & AOW / Nitrox course. Groups were put together in the right way (hard-core photographers together). Cons: Aircon in room is a bit weak and sometimes outside noise from Aircon unit (minor & both were no deal breaker). For the early-arrivers a check-dive on the same day of arrival would be nice as well a 2nd dive-offer before the departure day for people who stay in Maldives or have late flight (24-hours no flight rule). Possibly retuning mid-day prior to departure day could have allowed for additional and more preferred diving away from Male (to reduce the marina time in Male on Saturday as much as possible). However, we understand that the Covid testing requirement possibly affects the schedule. Overall: The staff & guides were unbelievably friendly combined with a tranquil atmosphere on board. Food was amazing, super tasty. Diving for us never disappoints in the Maldives and we apricate every effort by the crew/guides to find the best underwater spots. The disembarking process with Covid-19 testing was organized very well with full support from the crew. An excellent value for money experience.
Recommended for
Dive guides & dives, manta & nurse shark diving, wale shark snorkeling
26 May, 2021

9.6 Exceptional
Bettina M
Germany

Never met more nursery and caretaking stuff
The lovely crew and dive guides. They truly tried to give us the best time during the trip!
Recommended for
Friendlyness, Caretaking, Dive spots
11 Jan, 2022