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Well most of this depends upon your price range, but most of the Carib liveaboards are in the same range of money.
The exception being the Aggressors (Cayman, Belize and Utila).
However Aggressor is running 50% discounts for buddies and 25% for singles on selected weeks. Now that makes it more affordable as well.
Here are your choices:
1 - Blackbeard and their entire fleet of liveaboards.
2 - Explorer Ventures: The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos
3 - Nekton : Two boats (Pilot and Rorqual) I think both are in the Bahamas that time of year.
4 - There is a Liveaboard in Honduras called the RoatanLiveaboard. (I don’t recommend it quite yet because I don’t know enough about it)
5 - Gulf Stream Eagle out of West Palm Beach is running Bahamas itineraries as well. I haven’t dove her yet, but I’m thinking I want to when I can get away.
6 - Peter Hughes has the Grenada and Belize itineraries but they are on the same price range as the Aggressor.
I love liveaboards and if I were going to do a Liveaboard in Aug this year I’d pony up the extra scratch and do the Cayman Aggressor.
( especially if I had a buddy and could get that 50% discount)
My next choice would be the Turks and Caicos Explorer II. They have summer rates and you can save by taking a cabin on the lower deck.
The Explorer Ventures Bahamas vessel I hear has very small cabins and w/a buddy it might not be too bad. However w/a stranger, NO!
Nekton? Hmmm....I’ve been on two Nekton itineraries and I love diving from the vessels. I also love the open dive deck call.
But before I did the Nekton....( just remembered the vessel I HIGHLY reommend you check out) I’d go with the S/Y Juliet (www.sailjuliet.com)
This summer the Juliet is doing the Mona Passage of Puerto Rico. I wanted to take this trip earlier but my calendar is booked and I cant make it.
I take back my earlier statement after remembering the Juliet. If I could get away this year for a liveaboard trip I’d be on the Juliet in a heartbeat.
This is the direction I would take this year. I think Capt John has a few openings the first week of August. Give them a call.
Send me a message if you need more information.
Nesher
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