MV Black Manta Liveaboard Itineraries

The MV Black Manta will be doing 4-day/ 4-night liveaboard safaris and cruises from November through April. These trips will visit the Similan Islands, Koh Bon, Koh Tachai, and Richelieu Rock. For ease of use, only the four-day itinerary is published below.

Most ground transfers are included in the price of the cruise from your hotel to the boat and back again (Phuket or Khao Lak). Airport pick ups the day of departure are included. Please arrange your flight to arrive at Phuket International Airport (HKT) approximately 5:00 PM (1700) the day of departure. You may not fly the day you return from the trip due to flying after diving rules, you must spend the night either in Khao Lak or Phuket and make your own way to the airport on your departure day.

Prices include tanks and weights, night diving lights/ torches, divemaster services, accommodation on boards, coffee, tea, and bottled water, hotel transfers, and all meals. For trip prices and dive gear rental fees, please go here. Gear rental and Thai Government national park fees are paid upon departure in cash on the vessel.

Thai National Park fees 400THB per entry and 200 THB per day for a diver (no usage fee for a non-diver). For a four-day Thailand trip, this is 1,600 THB.

Please note that due to rising fuel prices, there is a 3,000 THB per person fuel surcharge to be collected here in Phuket, in cash, upon boarding the vessel for your trip.

Price includes hotel transfers, accommodation on board, all meals, most drinks, divemaster services, tanks, weights, and belts. Nitrox tank fills are 300 THB each. Nitrox package is: Pay for 10 fills, get four free (pay 10, get 14 tanks).

Note: We can take no responsibility for scheduling or itinerary changes due to changing weather, political situations, natural disasters or other events beyond our control. We strongly recommend that you purchase travel insurance for any kind of trip you do anywhere in the world. We also recommend that you have current DAN or other diving accident insurance in case of an unanticipated evacuation or other treatment that may not be covered by your regular insurance.