Ocean One Liveaboard, Maldives
9.1 Superb - Nitrox available
- Free Internet
- Free Nitrox
“The whole experience during my liveaboard with Les Amis des Maldives was absolutely amazing! ”
Highlights
The Ocean One is a 37-meter-long and 12-meter-wide liveaboard that can accommodate up to 26 divers and their accompanying non-diving guests in 15 cabins for Maldives safaris. It includes 6 double cabins with ocean views on the upper deck, 2 panoramic ocean view suites on the main deck, and 7 double/triple cabins with portholes on the lower deck. All cabins are air-conditioned and have private bathrooms with hot water.
The Ocean One offers spacious common areas on the 3 upper decks. Meals combine local and European specialties, often featuring freshly caught fish. There are plenty of relaxation areas on board. The spacious outdoor lounge areas, restaurant, and bar, featuring draft beer and a darts game, are all shaded. The top deck is equipped with deckchairs, hammocks, mattresses, and a 7-seater jacuzzi.
On board the Ocean One, passengers enjoy 3 dives per day. Explore the underwater world with fun activities like island hopping, swimming in the lagoon, snorkeling, canoeing, or paddleboarding, and fishing trips. An underwater scooter (DPV) is available on request, for a fee. Enjoy the show at cocktail hour: sharks, dolphins, and rays reveal their full splendor near our diving platform. Enjoy lively evenings with music, barbecues, games, or jacuzzi sessions.
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Included: VAT, Chamber Fees, Environment Tax, Port Fees, Airport Transfer, Local Flights, Drinking Water, Tea & Coffee, Welcome Cocktails, Full-Board Meal Plan (All meals), Snacks, Special Dinner, Diving Package, Extra Dives, Night Dives, Nitrox, Fishing, Kayaks, Land Excursions, Stand Up Paddleboard, Cabin Towels, Deck Towels, WiFi internet.
Optional Extras: Dive Insurance (32-50 EUR), Gratuities, National Park Fees (40 EUR), Alcoholic Beverages, Soft drinks, Nitrox Course (303 EUR per activity), Rental Gear, Scuba Diving Courses (63-668 EUR per activity), Snorkeling Guide (300 USD per trip).
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Ocean One Reviews
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- 9.1 Superb
- Vessel 9.3
- Crew 8.6
- Food 9.8
- Diving 8.9
- Value 8.8
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- 8.8 Fabulous
- Claire W
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Australia
Excellent trip for divers and non divers. We will return!
Excellent team who ensured everyone had had an amazing trip. Caters to all abilities and high focus on safety. Lovely comfortable vessel, good variety of food, and lots of fun on board. Marine life was amazing.
- Recommended for
- Great crew. Excellent for non divers. Marine life.
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- 10 Exceptional
- xiaorou S
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China
Best trip
**A Memorable Safari Boat Experience!** I recently had the pleasure of going on a safari boat trip, and it exceeded all of my expectations! From start to finish, the experience was absolutely breathtaking. The boat was comfortable, well-maintained, and equipped with everything needed for a relaxing day on the water.
- Recommended for
- Food and drinks. Professional dive guide. Crew service.
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- 8.8 Fabulous
- Sylvain D
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France
Great liveabord with lots of sharks! Friendly team to create a nice spirit after dives
Nice atmosphere with a nice team, choosing the good places to dive. Outside dives, we were always proposed some activities creating a good spirit within the group.
- Recommended for
- nice crew with friendly dive guides organising lots of social activities after dive, creating a nice atmosphere.. dive spots: we were able to focus on spots with lots of sharks. use of kayak to go to sand beach with sunset aperitive.
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- 8.8 Fabulous
- Steven D
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Germany
I can definitely imagine it again ;-)
40% international guests 60% French guests, great friendly atmosphere. Briefings are always bilingual at Dhoni. Daily 3 dives á 50 min. 1 dives on the first day and 3 dives on the last full day. Quite satisfied
- Recommended for
- Salome and Ire. Space in the cabin. Great crew.
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- 7.6 Good
- Mike L
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United Kingdom
A wonderful experience, with a few things to improve
This was my third Maldives Liveaboard, my first with Ocean One. We did the Male-to-Male Central route, which is the same as I’ve done before, previously with Emperor and Aggressor. There were some very good things about it, some OK things, and some things which could have been better. I chose this Liveaboard because I needed to start on a specific date, and this was one of the few options available. This seemingly worked in our favour, because on only 2 sites were there any other divers. The crew also gave consideration to tide times so that the sites chosen stood the best type of current for the dive. This was particularly evident and paid off at the 2nd Manta cleaning station where we had about 8 Mantas for an hour’s dive. The boat itself and the Dhonni are the best I’ve experienced. Ocean One is very big, and I really like the open plan inside/outside area. Eating out on the deck, with loads of space and options for relaxing is really very good and much nicer than I’ve experienced before. The rooms are also a very good size, including the bathrooms. We also benefited by there being just 16 guests, when capacity would be 24. I feel that Liveaboard.com should make clear that this is a French owned boat and therefore particularly popular with French speakers. However, I was lucky because the divers were international (Australia, USA, Italy, Poland, France, UK, Germany), and all the briefings were conducted in English, with French and Italian translation available. As well as the divers, 2 of the guests were just snorkelling and the team made sure to include them in as many sites as possible. This was a fantastic group, and I enjoyed this Liveaboard so much because of the friends I made. I felt the guides chose the sites well, and I have done many of them before showing they are diving ‘the best’ that Central Maldives has to offer. We didn’t repeat any sites, and covered a lot of distance and areas during the cruise. Other highlights included evening snorkelling with dolphins, and with Mantas, neither of which I’ve been able to do before and both were very special. I wasn’t impressed by the food. It was very basic, and often repetitive. Some guests said they really enjoyed it, but for me, the variety and quality of the cooking was not close to my experience on Emperor and Aggressor. It was good enough to sustain us for the week, but no more than that. That said: the NYE meal and the meal on the final night were brilliant! Cloe is an excellent guide. She knows the sites well, can adapt as necessary, and I really felt confident and safe diving with her as she would regularly be checking we were all still in the group and that everyone was OK. In my opinion, Ben was similar, though others really preferred Cloe. With Francesco and Irey, it really felt more like they were there to just guide at their own pace, and didn’t often look back to check on us or ask if OK and about air. I appreciate we look after ourselves and our buddy, but with constantly changing groups of divers, there were some dives when I wasn’t even sure who my Buddy was, and I feel this could have been very easily and simply addressed at the start of each dive by indicating who is who’s buddy on the whiteboard. On most dives, we would also be accompanied by one of the three DMs, so this was reassuring, and also meant that anyone consuming more air could end the dive a bit earlier with them, allowing the rest of us to continue. I was really surprised that Ocean One/Liveaboard.com says that this is Open Water with minimum 10 dives. There’s no way you can really do this trip without at least Advanced OW (30m qualified), and they don’t even offer air, so you need to be Nitrox certified too. For the safety of themselves and the enjoyment of others, I think AOW and 50-dive minimum should be imposed. It was my first experience of using a DPV – Ocean One has 5 of them onboard. This was really enjoyable and not something I’ve seen before,
- Recommended for
- The guests. Size & space of boat. DPV.
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- 10 Exceptional
- Luigi S
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Italy
Amazing experience with a fantastic crew
We spent a beautiful qeek with a fantastic crew, having very good meals and making awesome experiences in wonderfulmplaces. Our diving guides Francesco and Irfan absolutely perfect in every songle moment, but congratulatons to all the crew, we felt like in a family. We’ll come back soon for sure!
- Recommended for
- Kindness and professionality of crew. Organization of the experiences. Food.
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- 10 Exceptional
- Annika S
- Germany
Best diving experience
We had such a great time. The dive sites were outstanding. In the beginning, it was a bit challenging because we are not experienced divers but the guides took special care of us. The total crew was unbelievable friendly and the food was so good.
- Recommended for
- Dive Sites. Crew. Food.
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- 9.2 Superb
- Brian P
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Singapore
Great people
Great people on board and went to great extent to make a non French speaker at home. Clean room and common area. Food wise, the choice is limited guess cos maldives itself import most food except fishes, banana and coconut.
- Recommended for
- Friendly staff. Spacious. Clean.
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- 9.6 Exceptional
- Tomasz B
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Poland
Great Maldives Intro Dove
Two great dives (mantas, sharks), little island party, and manta snorkling
- Recommended for
- Cabins, Mantas, food
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- 10 Exceptional
- Sascha F
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Switzerland
Exceeded my expectations, great liveaboard!
Was on the central maledives cruise starting December 4th 2023 and it was an absolute blast! The boat is in great condition and very spacious. Food was superb - Buffet for breakfast and lunch, set menu for dinner. The crew catered for all special diets like vegan food perfectly. The dives were phenomenal. Channel and thila dives with dozens of grey sharks, eagle ray, manta rays, whaleshark, turtles, octopus, so nothing else to wish for. You should consider that there are many dives at 30m with very strong currents, and with four instructors for 20-30 guests, you should be comfortable to dive alone with your buddy in challenging conditions. The guests and instructors were mostly French natives. But Lucila, one of the instructors, mostly took care of the six international guests. She did an amazing job to make sure that all info and briefings were provided in English and that we had a great time under water and on board. Thanks Lucila and the whole team for such a great experience!
- Recommended for
- Sharks and Mantas, Variety in dive sites, engagement of instructors
