Prices are typically converted from foreign currencies and may fluctuate based on prevailing exchange rates.
Carpe Diem
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Location
Based in Male. Guests are greeted at the Male International Airport.
Dive Overview
The Maldives dive sites feature healthy reefs, soft corals, mantas, whale sharks, schooling gray reef sharks, hawksbill turtles, and much more.
[See: Maldives Dive Travel Guide]
Food & Drinks
All-inclusive semi-buffet style meals. Coffee/tea and drinking water are offered 24 hours a day.
Cabin details
Standard Lower Deck
Standard Twin Lower Deck
Double Main Deck
Deluxe Upper Deck
Suite Upper Deck
Boat features
Boat facilities
Deck plan
Carpe Diem dates
--- Prices are typically converted from foreign currencies and may fluctuate based on prevailing exchange rates.
22 Nov 2025 - 29 Nov 2025
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,4808 days7 nights
1/20 spots left
from $2,232
29 Nov 2025 - 6 Dec 2025
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,4808 days7 nights
2/20 spots left
from $2,232
13 Dec 2025 - 20 Dec 2025
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,4808 days7 nights
2/20 spots left
from $2,232
20 Dec 2025 - 27 Dec 2025
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,5808 days7 nights
4/20 spots left
from $2,322
4 Apr 2026 - 11 Apr 2026
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,5808 days7 nights
2/20 spots left
from $2,322
11 Apr 2026 - 18 Apr 2026
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,5808 days7 nights
1/20 spots left
from $2,322
9 May 2026 - 16 May 2026
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,1808 days7 nights
5/20 spots left
from $1,962
27 May 2026 - 3 Jun 2026
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,1808 days7 nights
10/20 spots left
from $1,962
6 Jun 2026 - 13 Jun 2026
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,1808 days7 nights
18/20 spots left
from $1,962
13 Jun 2026 - 20 Jun 2026
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,1808 days7 nights
20/20 spots left
from $1,962
20 Jun 2026 - 27 Jun 2026
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,1808 days7 nights
20/20 spots left
from $1,962
8 Aug 2026 - 15 Aug 2026
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,1808 days7 nights
18/20 spots left
from $1,962
15 Aug 2026 - 22 Aug 2026
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,1808 days7 nights
20/20 spots left
from $1,962
22 Aug 2026 - 29 Aug 2026
Manta Madness 3 (MLE/DRV) 7 Nights (Male) to (DRV)
10% OFF$2,1808 days7 nights
20/20 spots left
from $1,962
3 Sep 2026 - 10 Sep 2026
Manta Madness 3 (MLE/DRV) 7 Nights (Male) to (DRV)
10% OFF$2,1808 days7 nights
20/20 spots left
from $1,962
16 Sep 2026 - 26 Sep 2026
Deep North + Hanifaru Bay (MLE/DRV) 10 Nights (Male) to (DRV)
10% OFF$3,10011 days10 nights
14/20 spots left
from $2,790
24 Oct 2026 - 6 Nov 2026
Manta Madness 5 (MLE/MLE) 13 N's (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$4,70014 days13 nights
8/20 spots left
from $4,230
21 Nov 2026 - 28 Nov 2026
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,5308 days7 nights
20/20 spots left
from $2,277
28 Nov 2026 - 5 Dec 2026
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,5308 days7 nights
20/20 spots left
from $2,277
5 Dec 2026 - 12 Dec 2026
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,5308 days7 nights
20/20 spots left
from $2,277
12 Dec 2026 - 19 Dec 2026
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,5308 days7 nights
20/20 spots left
from $2,277
19 Dec 2026 - 26 Dec 2026
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,6408 days7 nights
20/20 spots left
from $2,376
26 Dec 2026 - 5 Jan 2027
Best of Maldives (10N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$3,71011 days10 nights
20/20 spots left
from $3,339
5 Jan 2027 - 15 Jan 2027
Best of Maldives (10N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$3,71011 days10 nights
20/20 spots left
from $3,339
16 Jan 2027 - 23 Jan 2027
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,6408 days7 nights
20/20 spots left
from $2,376
23 Jan 2027 - 30 Jan 2027
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,6408 days7 nights
20/20 spots left
from $2,376
6 Feb 2027 - 18 Feb 2027
Southern Sharks (MLE/GAN) 12 Nights (Male) to (GAN)
10% OFF$4,60013 days12 nights
10/20 spots left
from $4,140
17 Apr 2027 - 24 Apr 2027
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,6408 days7 nights
20/20 spots left
from $2,376
24 Apr 2027 - 1 May 2027
Best of Maldives (7N'S) (Male) to (Male)
10% OFF$2,6408 days7 nights
20/20 spots left
from $2,376
Detailed information about the itinerary
The Carpe Diem offers various itineraries. Each itinerary visits a combination of popular and new dive sites and attempts to give guests the chance to encounter everything from big pelagics like mantas, sharks, and whale sharks to shrimps, colorful nudibranchs, ghost pipefishes, and everything in between. The Carpe Diem will have 7 and 10-night cruises. The cruises normally leave every Saturday unless in the event of 10-day cruises departure days might change.
The Carpe Diem offers various itineraries. Each itinerary visits a combination of popular and new dive sites and attempts to give guests the chance to encounter everything from big pelagics like mantas, sharks, and whale sharks to shrimps, colorful nudibranchs, ghost pipefishes, and everything in between. The Carpe Diem will have 7 and 10-night cruises. The cruises normally leave every Saturday unless in the event of 10-day cruises departure days might change.
The Carpe Diem offers various itineraries. Each itinerary visits a combination of popular and new dive sites and attempts to give guests the chance to encounter everything from big pelagics like mantas, sharks, and whale sharks to shrimps, colorful nudibranchs, ghost pipefishes, and everything in between. The Carpe Diem will have 7 and 10-night cruises. The cruises normally leave every Saturday unless in the event of 10-day cruises departure days might change.
More information about this trip
Included
- 7 nights or 10 nights aboard the vessel
- 3 meals daily, plus between-dive snacks
- Drinking water, coffee (instant) and tea
- 3 dives daily (except for on day of arrival and day before departure) including one or two night dives
- Free nitrox to nitrox qualified divers
- Use of tanks, weights and belts
- Airport transfers on the days of embarkation/disembarkation
- GST 12%
Excluded
- Rental, instruction, nitrox and retail charges
- Green tax of 6 USD p/p per night
- Special trips marked with a star in the schedule will have an additional fuel surcharge and/or a domestic flight
- Crew gratuities
- Trip cancellation and dive insurance
- 12% tax on on-board purchases
- WiFI at $15/week/person or $20 for 10 days/person + tax
- 15L tanks
Practical information
- Time Zone: UTC+5
- Local Currency: MVR (Maldivian rufiyaa)
- Payment onboard: cash (USD or EUROs) or credit card (Visa, Master and American Express)
- Electricity: 220 volts
- Language Spoken: Dhivehi & English
Boat Specifications
- Built: 2008
- Port of Registration: Male / Republic of Maldives
- Length: 35m
- Width: 10m
- Maximum guests: 20
- Number of Cabins: 10
- Numberof Bathrooms: 13
- Numberof Crew: 10 + 3 on the diving dhoni
- Engine: Doosan Daewood Diesel Engine 650 Hp
- Fuel Tank Capacity: 7,000 liters
- Navigation: GPS, Sounder
- Communication: VHF Radio, Internet, GSM
- Generators: 2 x Doosan Daewood Marine Soundproof, 50 Hz, 380V, 45KW
- Fresh Water capacity: 5,000 Litres
- Water Maker: 16000 liters/day (2 x Osmotic Treatment Plants Wasco Atlantic 400)
- Safety equipment: Smoke detectors, fire extinguishers, life jackets, emergency alarm
- HP Compressors: 2 x MCH 16 Coltri Sub (530 L/min, 18CFM), Bauer M320
- Nitrox Gen: Coltri Sub LP320, Nuvair Membrane
Fellow traveler's reviews
Overall Value Marine Life Accommodations FoodBruce D
Overall ValueAccommodationsMarine Life FoodThe cabins were spacious/comfortable & the food was much better than I expected for buffet style. The crew was helpful/attentive & their chef was at every meal to make sure we had everything we needed. They even made me a birthday cake 🥳🥂. My roommate was vegan and often shared with non-vegans for how good it was. The diving seemed to be typical for late August. I had some awesome encounters with eagle rays, schools of barracudas, a very sleepy cuddle fish and even got to see a great hammerhead shark along with many other species of reef sharks. Their reefs are still healthy looking in many parts we visited and the hard corals are huge in some places. The guides were attentive and made sure to point out even the smallest wildlife resembling sea grass. They were also very conscientious of safety for ourselves/wildlife and that our interactions as well as other dive groups not part of our boat were being respectful too. I would recommend this boat for how they run their operation. Mantas were very scarce the whole trip and visibly wasn’t the best (common for late August) but our group seemed to understand the ocean doesn’t owe us anything. We didn’t get a chance to go into Hanifaru Bay for a lack of mantas but there was a whale shark swimming around outside the park near anchored boats. This was mostly a chaotic chase of various tender boats trying to dump groups snorkelers close to the whale shark. However, the Carpe Diem dive dhoani kept a very respectful distance while letting us in. As a heads up: the amount of people chasing wildlife from other boats can be a bit much even for being the off season of tourism.
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