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Indo Siren Liveaboard, Indonesia

Komodo, Raja Ampat, and the Banda Sea (5-14 Nights) | From $490++/night

Note: The Indo Siren is being replaced by the Indo Master. Contact us for more details.

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Indo Siren Liveaboard IN a Nutshell

The Indo Siren is a luxury liveaboard sailing yacht, built for and is managed by divers. She accommodates 16 divers in 8 spacious and beautifully decorated cabins. The Indo Siren makes a perfect boat for an ideal tropical dive vacation, with great itineraries to choose from in Indonesia's top diving regions: Raja Ampat (November to May/June), Komodo (May to October), and the Banda Sea (October). 

 

INDO SIREN'S Top Features 

  • Beautiful outdoor dining with sea view, cocktail lounge, and spacious sundeck 
  • Photographer friendly amenities
  • Delicious buffet-style meals

 

Location

Excursions are based around Komodo, Raja Ampat, and the Banda Sea.

 

Dive Overview

Indonesia is a scuba diving gem, featuring volcanic geography, wrecks, and vibrant marine life. The Indo Siren offers excellent service along with comfortable accommodations and top-notch equipment.

[See: Raja Ampat Dive Travel Guide & Komodo Dive Travel Guide]

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Accommodations

Types of Cabins, Amenities and Photos

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S/Y Indo Siren Cabin Details

The Indo Siren liveaboard accommodates 16 divers in 8 large aircon cabins. The cabins are either fixed double or twin bed, but they offer flexibility with 2 cabins which can be converted from twin to double to suit the needs of the guests.

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The cabins

 

S/Y Indo Siren Cabin Amenities

  • Individual aircon control
  • Personal audio/video system
  • Ensuite bathroom with hot water
  • Overhead reading lights
  • Lockable safety box
  • Cupboards for personal items
  • Bath & hand towels, Bathrobe
 

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General Facilities

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The dining area and lounge

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The dive deck and rinse tank

 

S/Y Indo Siren Boat Features

  • Aircon lounge/cocktail bar
  • Comfortable lounge sofas
  • 42″ Flatscreen TV
  • Library of movies, books & games
  • Covered outdoor dining
  • Camera table
  • Indoor charging station
  • All meals served buffet style
  • Self-service drinks & snacks
  • Sundeck (8 cushioned loungers)
  • 2 high powered RIBs
  • Same day laundry
  • Massage (available 3 hours/day)
  • Yacht boutique (Equipment/Merchandise)
  • Kayak usage (Free of charge except for arrival/departure days)

 

S/Y Indo Siren Dive Facilities

  • Shaded dive deck
  • Individual dive stations
  • Personal storage drawers
  • 12l Alu-Tanks, weights & belt
  • SMB (Safety Sausages) (Free of charge for duration of trip)
  • Numbered Towel – Diving/Deck use
  • Diving courses (charges apply)
 

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Food & Drinks Aboard S/Y Indo Siren

Each meal is served buffet style in the rear deck dining area. Hot breakfast and eggs cooked to order start the day, lunches offer at least 2 choices of chicken, fish or red meat with salads and vegetable accompaniment.

Evening meals consist of 3 courses: soup; entree; dessert. A choice of 2-3 entrees and a selection of side dishes are available with some evenings following a theme such as Indonesian or Thai night. Each trip offers a freshly prepared BBQ. Fresh fruit, snacks and cookies are available throughout the day. A wide selection of carbonated soft drinks (coke, coke light, sprite, tonic, soda) and fruit juices are available. Freshly brewed coffee, black and herbal teas and hot chocolate are also available free of charge. Wines and spirits are also available and additional charges apply.

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S/Y Indo Siren Deck Plan

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SCHEDULE, RATES & AVAILABILITY

S/Y Indo Siren Schedule & Rates

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Prices are in USD, per person and do not include park and port fees, and taxes. 

[See also: Inclusions & Exclusions]

 

Inclusions

  • Local transfers
  • Meals & Drinks

 

Exclusions

  • International & domestic flights
  • Torch and Dive Computer rental (6 USD/ day)
  • Mandatory: Marine Park, Port Fees & Taxes (prices vary)

 

Important Note

Optional extras, Marine Park, Port fees and taxes payable on board the S/Y Indo Siren are priced in USD. They accept cash payment in USD, Euro, US$, GBP, AU$ or Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) as well as all major credit cards (excepting Amex). All credit card transactions will be billed in IDR dependent on the exchange rate at the time of your trip and an admin fee of 3% will be applied.

 

RATES &  AVAILABILITY

For more information on rates and availability email us at info@bluewaterdivetravel.com or call us at +1-310-915-6677 and we will gladly help you plan your dream dive vacation!

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Dive Information & Itineraries

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Raja Ampat (November-June, 10 Nights)

The region of Raja Ampat, Indonesia is all about diversity - not only diversity of species, but also of dive sites. There are some areas where soft corals and sea fans dominate, others with an amazing range of hard corals, seagrass beds, mangroves, shallow reefs, drop offs, caves, black sand and white sand. Then there are the fish, lots of them, in more shapes and sizes than anywhere else in the world. Not only are there loads of fish, but all the levels of the food chain are well represented - from pygmy seahorses to top predators. In many places brightly coloured soft corals can be found close to the surface which, illuminated by natural sunlight, make these dive sites spectacularly colourful. The reefs in Raja Ampat just buzz with life! Manta rays, wobbegong sharks and epaulette sharks can all be found in the waters that make up Raja Ampat.

Raja Ampat is huge, 50,000 sq km, with hundreds of islands and an astounding diversity of habitats, which translates to wildly different diving experiences from pelagic drift dives to magic muck dives and even some habitats that are special to Raja Ampat such as clear water mangroves with corals growing right next to them! There are thousands of potential dive sites. Exploration is still continuing, and on every trip there are chances for new and amazing discoveries.

  • Day 1 Arrive Sorong

  • Day 2 Batanta Island - 3 dives

  • Day 3 Pulau Wagmab and Pulau Farondi - 4 dives

  • Day 4  Pulau Wayilbatan and Wayil and Pulau Kalig - 4 dives
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Day 5 Misool - 3 Dives

  • Day 6  Pulau Gam and Yangeffo - 4 dives
  • Day 7 Ma nsuar Island & Arborek - 4 dives
  • Days 8-9  Mansuar & the Dampier Strait - 8 dives
  • Day 10 Batanta Island

  • Day 11 Disembark Sorong

Flores to raja Ampat (14 Nights)

  • Day 1 Airport meet and greet at Maumere Airport and transfer to the port for embarkation on SY Indo Siren.
  • Days 2-13 Up to 4 dives a day as we cruise through the Flores and Banda Seas into Raja Ampat, visiting some of the very best sites along the way.
  • A typical dive day is scheduled as follows but subject to change dependent on sea and weather conditions, and cruising times
  • - Light breakfast followed by a briefing & Dive 1
  • - Full breakfast and relaxation followed by briefing & Dive 2 
  • - Lunch and relaxation followed by briefing & Dive 3 
  • - Afternoon snacks and relaxation 
  • - Briefing for sunset or night dive 
  • - Dinner
  • Day 14 For your last full day on board, we schedule two morning dives to allow plenty of time for off-gassing prior to flying the following day.

 

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Komodo (May-November, 10 Nights)

Located 200 nautical miles east of Bali, Komodo National Park is nestled between the large island of Sumbawa and Flores in Indonesia, all of which are part of the Lesser Sunda Islands. Officially declared a World Heritage Site in 1991, the Komodo National Park encompasses 132,000 hectares of marine waters making it one of the largest protected zones in the world.

Diving in Komodo National Park is best done by liveaboard, which allows you to explore the area to its fullest. The park and surrounding area boasts one of the world's richest marine environments, with over 260 species of reef-building coral, 70 species of sponge, marine worms, mollusks, echinoderms, crustaceans, over 1000 species of cartilaginous and bony fish, marine reptiles, and marine mammals. Some notable marine species include pygmy seahorses, anglerfish, nudibranchs, manta rays, dolphins, whales, Napolean wrasse and groupers.

PLEASE NOTE: Dive gloves and reef hooks are not permitted within the boundaries of the National Park.

  • Day 1Meet & Greet at Labuan Airport upon arrival of your flight for transfer to the harbor and SY Indo Siren embarkation.

  • Day 2Sangeang Island & Gili Banta - 4 dives

  • Day 3Northern Komodo - 4 dives
  • Day 4Gili Lawa Laut and Current City - 4 dives
  • Day 5Dragon walk and Rinca - 3 dives

  • Day 6Southern Komodo - 4 dives 

  • Day 7Southern Komodo - 4 dives
  • Day 8Current City and Gili Lawa Laut - 4 dives

  • Day 9Komodo National Park - 3 dives
  • Day 10Two dives scheduled for the morning. Enjoy a relaxing afternoon onboard or try your hand at some water-skiing. In the evening, the chefs prepare a BBQ feast and you can begin planning your next adventure with Blue O Two and the Siren Fleet!


  • Day 11After breakfast, disembark and transfer to Labuan Bajo Airport or local resort.

 

 

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Banda Sea (October, 14 Nights)

Siren Fleet 14 night discovery trips give you the opportunity to combine diving in these remote islands with diving in Flores and Alor in the south, Ambon just south of Seram and Raja Ampat to the far north. Each trip provides a superb combination of walls and pinnacles, coral gardens and muck diving with the chance to explore new sites and find new creatures. Your Cruise Director will schedule up to 4 dives per day; 3 day dives and either a sunset or a night dive. The diving day has a typical schedule as follows:

  • Light Breakfast followed by a briefing & Dive 1
  • Full Breakfast, relaxation followed by briefing & Dive 2
  • Lunch, relaxation followed by briefing & Dive 3
  • Snack
  • Briefing for Sunset or Night dive
  • Dinner

NORTH HALMAHERA EXPLORATION (10 NIGHTS)

  • Day 1—Upon arrival at Sorong Airport, you will be met by ground staff and transferred to Swissbel Hotel to relax and enjoy lunch before boarding the ferry to Waisai. The crew will be waiting to transfer you to S/Y Indo Siren when you arrive in Waisai. Boat briefing and then dinner.
  • Days 2-9 Up to 4 dives per day. We will spend a few days diving some of the best dive sites in Raja Ampat before beginning our journey across the Halmahera Sea to towards Morotai island where we will explore the waters and sites surrounding Morotai and the North and West sides of Halmahera Island.
  • The diving day has a typical schedule as follows:
  • - Light breakfast followed by a briefing & dive 1

  • - Full breakfast, relaxation followed by briefing & Dive 2

  • - Lunch, relaxation followed by briefing & dive 3

  • - Snack
- Briefing for sunset or night dive

  • - Dinner
  • Day 10 For your final full day on board S/Y Indo Siren, we schedule two morning dives to allow plenty of time for off-gassing before disembarkation and your flight home.
  • Day 11 After breakfast, disembark and transfer to Ternate Airport, or local resort.

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Boat Specifications

  • Built: 2010
  • Length: 40 meters
  • Breadth: 9.7 metres
  • Draft: 3 meters
  • Construction Material: Ironwood
  • Engines: Marinized Nissan RH-10, Mitsubishi 6D-22
  • Cruising Speed: 9 knots
  • Generators: 3 x Yanmar
  • Water Storage: 16 tonnes
  • Compressors: 2x MCH13
  • Max guests: 16
  • Number of cabins: 8
  • Number of crews: 12

 

Practical Information

  • Time Zone: GMT+8 & GMT+9
  • Local Currency: IDR (Indonesian Rupiah)
  • Language Spoken: English and Indonesian
  • Electricity: 220v or 110v
  • Payment Onboard: Cash & credit card

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Photos provided by Aaron Wong, Kees Opstal & Gerald Rambert 

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Reviews (3)

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S/Y Indo-Siren Review:

Great boat with a lot of space. 2 dingies for dives. Staff were very professional, equipment was in good working order. Rooms were spacious . Computers in each room with a flat screen to download and view photos - what a luxury.

Food:
Food was great and the chef accommodated for a range of dietary requirements. I particularly liked the desserts. The dining area was comfortable and spacious.

Camera room:
There is a dedicated camera charging area with tonnes of space for strobes, domes etc. There was never a shortage of power points.

Diving:
Nitrox was available on request.
Our Irish dive coordinator, Deidre was great, and was very thorough with her briefings. She had a wealth of experience around Raja Ampat. Staff was very helpful, and once gear was organised on the first day everything else was straight forward.
There was a large table area covered in towels to place camera gear, masks etc between dives.

Raja ampat is a magnificent part of the world. All types of diving - mangroves (watch out for crocs!), muck diving, amazing night dives, drift, manta cleaning stations...I particularly liked manta alley. A block of reef on sand with numerous large mantas! There are not a lot of big fish in Raja ampat, but certainly enough for some nice wide-angle photography. The real treat though is macro. You can fix on several square meters of reef for a whole dive there is so much to see.

Staff were very considerate with camera gear - getting in and our of dingies etc.

Water temperature is nice and warm in Raja Ampat. So no need for a 5mm wetsuit...

Marine life:
Including manta rays, eagle rays, pygmy seahorse, wobbygongs,thumb-cracker shrimps, frogfish, nudibranchs, sponges, tunicates, and lovely coral.

Overall:
Certainly one of the best macro diving locations in the world. The staff were excellent. Certainly a trip I would like to do again some day.

Visited on 12/2010 - Submitted on 02/20/2014
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INDO SIREN - WORLDWIDE DIVE AND SAIL REVIEW

In early 2011, my wife and I were looking into booking a liveaboard trip. Previously, we had never been on a liveaboard, so we researched as much as we could about places, ships, best time of year to go to what places, etc. We eventually settled on going to Komodo with Worldwide Dive and Sail because we liked the location and Worldwide Dive and Sail was offering a 15% discount. However, we were also a little hesitant to book this ship because we could find little to no reviews of Worldwide Dive and Sail. Adding to our concern was the fact that the ship that was going to be used for this cruise was still being built. Needless to say, our concerns were for not.

Our trip started in San Diego, CA. After a long flight, we arrived in Bali, Indonesia. Due to the fact that Indonesian airline flight schedules are notoriously unreliable, our travel agent (as well as the travel agent of every other diver on our trip) recommended we arrive in Bali a day before our scheduled cruise and spend the night in Bali, which we did.

We spent one night before the cruise and one night after the cruise at the Santika Premiere Beach Resort. We stayed here based on our travel agent’s recommendation specifically because this place was close to the airport. It is close the airport. It is only a 5 minute cab ride from the airport to this hotel. However, being close to the airport did not mean this place was bad. To the contrary, this place was fabulous and only cost about $100 US per night. It is a large resort with two pools, great restaurants and bars and direct beach access. An unbelieveable buffet style breakfast was included in the room price. The resort is also close enough to walk to the popular shopping areas of Bali. So, if you do not have a personal preference for hotels in Bali, I would recommend the Santika.

The next day, we flew Merpati, a local Indonesian airline to get from Bali to Bima, where our ship was docked. My wife and I had 90 kilos in luggage as we had brought all our gear, including, backplates, drysuits (more on that later), canister lights, etc. Thus, our baggage was overweight by 42 kilos. Travel tip. Everything in Indonesia is negotiable, including baggage overage charges. The airline asked me to pay $600,000 Rupiah (or $67 US) for the overweight bags. I told them that was too high and the ticketing agent asked me how much I wanted to pay. I told him $400,000. We settled on $450,000.

Upon arrival at the Bima Airport, after a 20 minute drive, we boarded the Indo Siren.

THE BOAT

The Indo/Siren is a 40 meter long ship. It was brand new in 2011. Our group was only the 3rd group to have been on this ship. Suffice it to say, I think the ship design was well thought out for diving. The cabins were spacious and comfortable. Each cabin has its own bathroom, air conditioner, desk and TV. The bed was incredibly comfortable. Each day, while you are diving, a crew member makes your bed and cleans your room.

As for diving amenities, on the dive deck each diver is assigned a station. There are sixteen stations. Each station has storage drawers and a table. So, you can store all your dive gear at your station. For the duration of the trip, that station will be yours.

Inside the ship’s salon, each diver is also provided with a storage drawer. So, for anything you might want to keep dry and have ready access to, you can keep that in the storage drawer.

For the photographers, there is a large table in the salon where you can store your camera gear and recharge all your batteries.

Needless to say, the boat and its amenities all met or exceeded my wife and my expectations.

THE TRIP

During our 10 days on board, we did 32 dives. During the main part of the trip (i.e. excluding the first day’s check out dive and the last day of diving), we dove 4 times a day. The schedule was get up at 6:45 a.m. boat time (they advance the clock one hour to maximize daylight). Have a light breakfast of toast or cereal. First dive at 8:00. Big Breakfast at 9:30. Dive at 11:00. Lunch at 1:00. Dive at 4:00. Snack. Dive at 7:00. Dinner at 9:00. Drink and play games. Go to sleep. Repeat.

The 32 dives ranged in variety from muck dives to crystal clear blue water dives. We also had two wall dives and one wreck dive (a liveaboard ship that sunk in 1992). We dove off an active volcano where the sand was completely black and gas bubbles were coming from the sand. There were mellow dives, drift dives and high current dives (although there was not as much of the high current dives on our trip as there normally would be due to the phase of the moon.) I was never disappointed by any of the dives.

The Indo Siren did not require us to dive with our dive guide. Rather, you could go and explore each of your dive sites on your own if you wished. Nor, were there fixed time limits on dives, except for night dives which had a 45 minute limit, but we still did 60 minutes on these dives. Rather, the rule was that you had to return to the ship with at least 30 bar or 400 psi in gas. (TIP: The guides and all of the divers on our trip used bar to measure tank pressure. Being from the good ‘ol US of A, I use PSI. This caused a little bit of confusion. On one of the early dives, when I told my guide I was going to ascend, my dive guide asked me how much gas I had left, and I told her “5,” she thought I had 50 bar left, not 500 psi.) Most of the people on our cruise seemed to have good SAC rates. So, typically people were getting 60 to 70 minutes out of an aluminum 80. (If you need more gas, the ship also has aluminum 100’s. So, make sure you ask them to give you a 100 if you want it before dive 1.) If you go off on your own, just make sure you know how to deploy a SMB from depth as that is how the dingy driver is going to find you.

Water temperature ranged from 81 to 84 degrees fahrenheit for 31 out of the 32 dives. On one dive, the thermometer dropped to a bone chilling 79 degrees. My wife and I did 31 out of the 32 dives in DUI TLS350 drysuits. (The 32nd dive I did in board shorts and a rash guard and my wife in a 3mm as we thought we should at least try diving wet in the tropics. With the water temperature being 84 degrees, I was rather quite comfortable doing a 60 minute dive with no wet or dry suit.) The boat crew had never seen a drysuit before (and why should they have.) After every dive, the boat crew washes your wetsuit and takes care of your gear. After dive 1, the crew took my drysuit, zipper open, and dunked it in the wash tank. Doh!

We dove drysuits because that is what we normally dive in and we figured because we are doing repetitive diving, the drysuit will keep us warmer. We needed no undergarments under our drysuits to keep us warm. I simply wore board shorts and a long sleeve tech t-shirt to keep my skin from contacting the suit directly. Because we did not have to get suited up in direct sunlight or have to stand around in the sunlight, we never felt overheated in our drysuits. I would dive drysuits in the tropics again.

The marine life on this trip tends to be of the smaller variety. For example, pygmy seahorses, lady bugs, and dwarf cuttlefish are some of the highlights of the dives. Therefore, if you go to Komodo and are expecting large marine life, you will probably be disappointed. However, we did see large marine life, including, white and black tip reef sharks, manta rays, sea turtles, bumphead parrotfish and humphead wrasse. So, it is not exclusively macro-marine life on this trip.

The Indo Siren’s food was 4 and 5 star restaurant quality. Food ranged from western style offerings to classic Indonesian dishes. Food is served buffet style. There was always plenty of food. The dinner desserts were always exceptional. Everyone on the trip always looked forward to the dinner deserts!

The ship also has an excellent automated coffee machine and a soda machine which is always available.

All the beer you can drink is included in the price of the trip. So, drink up. While our group did drink, apparently other groups drank more than we did. We were told that on the cruise before ours, the crew was seriously concerned that they were going to run out of beer before the 10 days were up!

The Indo Siren and its crew were exceptional. They went out of their way to make sure very guest was happy and comfortable. Within the crew, there is one crew member that is known as the “fixer.” It is his/her job to make sure you are happy and comfortable. So, if it is within their control to make it happen, they will make it happen. For example, I was told by our cruise’s fixer that if someone showed up with tank bands and a manifold and asked to double up two 80s and dive the entire cruise in doubles, she would have said yes.

My only criticism of the boat is a very minor one. While the Indo Siren has plenty of lead weight, the weight they have are only in even amounts – 2 or 4 pound hard weights. Without 1 or 3 pounders, even though I knew I was overweight, during the 32 dives we did, I did not try to dial in my weight any better because the lowest amount of weight I could drop was 4 pounds vs. dropping 2 pounds if they had 1 or 3 pound hard weights also. I simply did not want to risk finding out I was a little underweighted at the end of a dive when I popped to surface.

Also, before I went on the trip, I contacted Worldwide Dive and Sail and asked them if I and my wife could use our DIN regulators. I was told that they only support yoke fittings and that they would provide us with a converter. Because I did not want to use a converter, I converted both of my and my wife’s first stages from DIN to yoke before the trip. Upon arrival, I found out that their tanks had XS Scuba valves that use the valve inserts so using a DIN regulator is not a problem, and, in fact, half of the divers on the trip had DIN regulators. I would have much rather used my DIN setup. But, it was not that big a deal.

The Indo Siren and Worldwide Dive and Sail are a class act. The boat, crew and diving were top notch. I would highly recommend them to anyone.

Visited on 05/2011 - Submitted on 08/05/2014
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The Indo-Siren is a fairly new boat, with a great layout. You eat all your meals outside on the deck, which is amazing. The boat is well-organized for cameras, and divers have their own drawers for their gloves, computers, and other dive items right by their dive station. The boat has 24x7 gourmet coffee and nutella, which is great. Food is buffet style, and fairly good, although not awesome. When I was on the boat, the dive guide turnover ratio was a little high, hopefully now that have a more experienced crew. Cabins are large and pretty amazing.

Visited on 01/2013 - Submitted on 11/30/2014

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