Emperor Virgo

Emperor Virgo exudes quality, style, space and a promise of a diving holiday to remember for years to come. Decorated in light wood and in a contemporary style, the main deck has an air-conditioned dining room and lounge with comfy sofas. The upper deck has a fully licensed bar so you can enjoy your favorite tipple as the sun dips below the horizon and a sun deck with loungers for sunbathing and just kicking back.

BOAT FACILITIES

Main deck: Air-conditioned lounge; comfy sofas, TV, book, music and movie library and dining area.

Upper deck: Outdoor seating area and internationally stocked bar.

Sun deck: Sunbeds

WiFi: Data packages via a code are available to purchase on board. 

DIVING FACILITIES

3 dive guides

Diving Dhoni: 17m tender with 3 staff, fully equipped with compressors, oxygen, comprehensive First Aid and AED and diving towels.

Dive equipment rental: Full range on offer; rentals must be arranged prior to arrival. All divers are required to use a dive computer, SMB and reef hooks for every dive and a torch each for night dives.

Dive tanks: Equipped with S80 (11.1 litre) Aluminium tanks as standard and C100 (13.2 litre) tanks on request. FREE Nitrox; up to 32% plus partial pressure system.

PADI courses available: Advanced Open Water, Adventure Dives and Specialties

Medical: Oxygen, comprehensive First Aid and AED available.

Camera facilities: Charging stations, air gun, rinse tanks and camera table

CABINS

Upper deck: 2 cabins with twin beds that can be adapted to doubles

Main deck: 2 cabins with twin beds that can be adapted to doubles

Lower deck: 4 cabins with twin beds that can be adapted to doubles, 1 family cabin with a double and single bed




 

Best of the Maldives - 7 nights (approx 20 dives)

Dive the best and most famous dive sites across Male and Ari Atoll. Dive channels, pinnacles, action-packed night dive with nurse sharks, get up close at the cleaning stations without disturbing the locals!

Expect to see sharks, manta, reef fish, turtles, morays, eagle rays, abundant macro life. Possible hammerheads and whale sharks.

We don’t follow an exact itinerary; flexibility is key irrespective of the year you visit, this underwater world is yours (and ours) for the exploring.

This is the Best of the Maldives – and it delivers exactly that. This is where you dive the best and most famous dive sites of the Maldives in a week of wonderful liveaboard diving across Male, Ari & Vaavu atolls.

Enjoy a dive holiday that gives you all you could wish for from the iconic sites of North Male, South Male, Ari & Vaavu Atoll. Awaiting you are channels (Kandus), pinnacles (Thilas) & cleaning stations where you have every chance of meeting mantas, a variety of sharks and mesmerizing marine life of so many varieties.

This itinerary gives you a marine mix of big fish such as shark and manta dives as well as reef dives, reef fish, morays and macro life. Get up close at the cleaning stations without disturbing the locals! One of the best known dive sites is Fish Head; a marine protected site, this medium size pinnacle has many resident turtles, huge schools of fusiliers being stalked by trevally and patrolling grey reef sharks. Overhangs and a large school of blue line snapper, the iconic reef fish of the Maldives make this a genuinely great dive.

Deep South - 7 nights (20 + dives) - double the fun on South Shark Adventure - 14 nights

Fuvahmulah; Tiger sharks, oceanic manta and thresher sharks. Oceanic Island with incredible visibility.

Huvadhu; Whale sharks at night, silver tips, grey reef sharks and many, many more.

Addu Atoll; WWII wreck HMS British Loyalty and majestic manta cleaning stations.

December to March are the best times to dive the southerly Maldivian atolls and experience the shark action in these out-of-the-way dive sites between Huvadhu and Addu (Seenu) Atolls. Spend a week away from the madding crowds and dive Addu, Fuvahmulah and Huvadhu on the lookout for the Indian Ocean’s larger residents; tiger sharks, silver tips, grey reef sharks, whale sharks and many, many more.

At Huvadhu, one of the deepest lagoons in the Maldives, the currents and channels are ideal for even more shark sightings including, hopefully, whale sharks and silkies, hammerheads and grey sharks spotted most of the time.

You will dive many of the world-class channels (kandus) here including; Vilingilli, Koodoo, Nilandhoo and Mareehaa. In Fuvahmulah you can expect to meet tiger, silky, silver tip and thresher sharks on the south plateaux.

Addu Atoll hosts the WWII wreck, HMS British Loyalty, as well as popular majestic Manta Cleaning station Maa Kandu along with a more relaxing drift dive at Demon corner to either start or end the trip with too.

Please note: At Emperor, we believe in providing as authentic an experience with nature as possible. We do not believe it is appropriate to chum/bait for, nor feed, sharks and therefore will not dive or promote the experience known as “Tiger Zoo” in Fuvahmulah Atoll. We dive Fuvahmulah and regularly encounter Tiger Sharks there, as well as at other spots on our itineraries, and we believe these offer a far more natural experience.

For more info on the boat + trips, watch HERE