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Indonesia

Coral Gardens and Manta Rays

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Gaia Love

Gaia Love - A Luxury Dive Yacht for the Ultimate Exploration

Gaia Love explores Indonesia’s most remote dive regions, including Raja Ampat, Komodo, Alor, Banda Sea, Forgotten Islands, Triton Bay, and Halmahera. Voyages of 6 to 11 nights follow seasonal conditions, offering pristine reefs, rich biodiversity, and rare encounters, with schedules balancing diving, exploration, and relaxation.

Gaia Love features spacious 20 square meter cabins with modern interiors, premium bedding, and private bathrooms. Guests enjoy a wide saloon, expansive decks, a dedicated camera room, and freshly prepared Indonesian and western cuisine from a chef-driven kitchen.

Lower Deck Cabin

All cabins on the boat are designed in a modern contemporary style, creating an atmosphere that promotes relaxation and a restful night’s sleep. The Lower Deck Cabins have the following amenities:

  • King / Queen or Super Single Bed
  • En-suite Bathroom
  • Air Conditioning
  • TV, media player and network-linked entertainment system

Upper Deck Cabin

All cabins on the boat are designed in a modern contemporary style, creating an atmosphere that promotes relaxation and a restful night’s sleep. The Upper Deck Cabins have the following amenities:

  • King / Queen or Super Single Bed
  • En-suite Bathroom
  • Air Conditioning
  • Private Balcony
  • TV, media player and network-linked entertainment system

Route Options

11 Nights 10 Days

Raja Ampat, located off the northwest tip of West Papua, Indonesia, is a remote paradise made up of hundreds of lush islands surrounded by vibrant coral reefs. Known as the “Four Kings” for its main islands—Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati, and Misool—this region offers some of the richest marine biodiversity on Earth. From the sea floor to the surface, the waters teem with life, making it a dream destination for divers and underwater photographers alike.

Gaia Love itineraries explore the full range of Raja Ampat’s highlights. In the south, Misool dazzles with soft corals, sea fans, and both reef and oceanic mantas. Central Raja Ampat’s Dampier Strait offers thrilling dives at sites like Cape Kri and Blue Magic, known for dense fish life and the phenomenon known as “fish thunder.” Macro lovers will enjoy Batanta’s critter-rich muck sites and Arborek’s famous jetty dive.

In the north, divers can explore the mangroves of Aljui Bay, cross the equator while diving in Kawe, and experience the untouched beauty of Wayag’s limestone islands and coral gardens. Beyond diving, guests may visit ancient rock art near Misool or spot the elusive crimson bird of paradise on Waigeo. With its rare mix of beauty, biodiversity, and cultural intrigue, Raja Ampat offers a diving experience like no other.

Vessel Details

Length 40m
Width 10m
Hull material Marine Steel
Engines 2 Yanmar 829 bhp
Generators Two Kohler 80kw Power System (Shielded)
Water Capacitity 52,000 L
Desalination 2 Spectra 2,800 Gallons/day system
Speed 10 knots - Max 12 Knots
Diesel Capacity 66,000L
Communication & Navigation 6,570 Nm
Communications & Navigations Furuno Open Array Radar Simrad AutoPilot Icom Marine VHF Radios HF SSB GMDSS Radios Icom GMDSS Air Band Radios ENC Marine Charts Garmin GPS Chart Plotter Navtex Receiver Depth Sonar Satellite Phone VOIP Phone Intellian Satellite Broadband Simrad Global Positioning System Compass EPRIB
Safety Features Emergency DAN Oxygen Kits Oxygen Banks First Aid Kits EPRIB 4 Life Raft Life Vests Fire Detection System Smoke Detectors Fire Fighting Equipment GMDSS Air Band Radios
Compressors 3 Bauer PE250
Nitrox Membrane System 1 550L 15kw
Aluminium Tanks 45 Scuba Tank: 12L & 15L
Cameras Large camera rinse tanks
Aluminium Tanks 45 Scuba Tank: 12L & 15L
Diving Tenders 3 5.5m Aluminium Diving Tenders with 85hp OB
Rinse Tanks Large camera rinse tanks
Dive Deck Up to 20 Divers
Full Set (BCD, Dive Computer, Fins, Mask, Regulator, Wetsuit) - 800,000 IDR per day
BCD 240,000 IDR per day
Regulator 240,000 IDR per day
Wetsuits 112,000 IDR per day
Fins 80,000 IDR per day
Mask 80,000 IDR per day
Torch 192,000 IDR per day
Dive Computer 192,000 IDR per day
Nitrox Tank 240,000 IDR per day
Nitrox Tank 240,000 IDR per day

Available Experiences

ITINERARIES AVAILABLE IN THIS DESTINATION

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What Our Customers Have To Say

Reviews from our Clients, Journalists, Photo Pro's and our own Experts

Our reviews and blogs are an additional guide to evaluate of the holiday is exactley what you are looking for or not. Some love an Eco-Resort, some love air-con and a flat screen TV, we aim to ensure you get what you are looking for, at great value for money.

Manta Sandy

Raja Ampat, Indonesia

Manta Sandy also known as Manta Mantra is one of the signature dive sites in Raja Ampat located at the far end of Mansour Island. As the name implies the sandy bottom is a great place to watch these magnificent underwater creatures. The cleaning station is only 12 metres away and here you can watch the mantas being cleaned with some staying as long as 10 minutes.

  • Dive Type: Boat Dive
  • Diver Level: Open Water Diver
  • Max Depth:

Sardine Reef

Raja Ampat, Indonesia

Soft coral, gorgonian fans, black coral bushes and slopes of coral heads populate the whole Sardine Reef area. Large schools of fusiliers, sardines, damsels, banner fish, butterfly fish, sweetlips and snappers frequent the site, picking tasty morsels out of the current. Triggerfish and predators such as barracuda, Spanish mackerel, Jacks and giant trevallies can be seen as well. At the top of the food-chain, black tipped reef sharks, white tipped reef sharks and even grey reef sharks usually cruise the surroundings.

  • Dive Type: Boat Dive
  • Diver Level: Open Water Diver
  • Max Depth: 18

Blue Magic

Raja Ampat, Indonesia

One of the most popular sites in northern Raja Ampat. Almost anything can be seen from mantas, sharks and tuna to massive schools of jacks and barracuda. Along the slopes and onto the reef top are a variety of fans, sponges and soft and hard corals.

  • Dive Type: Boat Dive
  • Diver Level: Open Water Diver
  • Max Depth: 18

Cape Kri

Raja Ampat, Indonesia

At the Northeast point of Kri island the currents sweep into a channel between Kri and the small island of Koh. At this point beneath waters churning in the current, huge schools of Big-eye trevallies, Barracudas and Snappers can be seen hanging over the drop-off. At the base of the reef an ancient snagged anchor rests next to a bommie with a dense school of Banded sweetlips. A large shallow coral garden crowns the reef top with blacktip reef sharks patrolling amongst the overlapping maze of hard corals with feeding hawksbill turtles. Car-sized Queensland groupers down to the diminutive ever-present pygmy seahorse can be seen on this phenomenal dive site.

  • Dive Type: Boat Dive
  • Diver Level: Open Water Diver
  • Max Depth: 18

Chicken Reef

Raja Ampat, Indonesia

It is a reef with various soft and hard corals and some rock formations. The reef has an enormous number of magnificent reef fish. Some of the life here includes table corals, black staghorn corals, feather corals, angelfish, clown triggerfish, butterflyfish, trevallies, surgeonfish, and red-margin shrimpgobies.

  • Dive Type: Boat Dive
  • Diver Level: Open Water Diver
  • Max Depth: 18
Dates Duration Route Room Type Price
5 Nov 2026
15 Nov 2026
10 Nights Raja Ampat Lower Deck Cabin £5120
5 Nov 2026
15 Nov 2026
10 Nights Raja Ampat Upper Deck Cabin £5520
17 Nov 2026
27 Nov 2026
10 Nights Raja Ampat Lower Deck Cabin £5120
17 Nov 2026
27 Nov 2026
10 Nights Raja Ampat Upper Deck Cabin £5520
29 Nov 2026
9 Dec 2026
10 Nights Raja Ampat Lower Deck Cabin £5120
29 Nov 2026
9 Dec 2026
10 Nights Raja Ampat Upper Deck Cabin £5520
11 Dec 2026
21 Dec 2026
10 Nights Raja Ampat Lower Deck Cabin £5120
11 Dec 2026
21 Dec 2026
10 Nights Raja Ampat Upper Deck Cabin £5520
23 Dec 2026
2 Jan 2027
10 Nights Raja Ampat Lower Deck Cabin £5120
23 Dec 2026
2 Jan 2027
10 Nights Raja Ampat Upper Deck Cabin £5520