• 4 Double-bed Air Conditioned cabins
• 2 Single Air Conditioned
• Fresh hot & Cold water showers
• Daily housekeeping service
• Spacious dive deck with fresh water showers
• Fresh water tanks for camera rinsing
• Air-conditioned saloon and cabins
• Audio and Video entertainment center in the saloon
• Covered Outdoor dining. Indoor dining when weather dictates
• Delicious Cuisine
• Free flow hot / cold beverages and snacks
  
• Professional photography station including prep & storage areas
• Kayaks
• 2 dinghies

MSV Shakti Liveaboard Details

MSV Shakti is a 32 meter schooner and only takes 10 guests with four bathrooms. The Shakti has been permanently based in Raja Ampat and operating bimonthly 12 day dive expeditions since 2002. No other liveaboard has spent this much actual time in Raja Ampat. Having extensively explored the region, the Shakti team can offer unique diving itineraries to genuinely unknown and pristine dive sites. The variety of diving environments ranges from intensely colorful coral reefs to incredible underwater formations of limestone caves, tunnels and archways. On a Shakti cruise you are likely to see mantas and large schools of fish on many of the current visited dive sites, but you will also discover Raja Ampat greatest macro-sites. Nitrox fills are available on board. Shakti gets very very full, so please plan ahead for this vessel. She is used to hosting groups so for a dive club or a group of friends, Shakti will be a trip of a lifetime.

Located off the northwest tip of Bird's Head Peninsula on the island of New Guinea, Raja Ampat, or the Four Kings, is an archipelago comprising over 1,500 small islands, cays and shoals surrounding the four main islands of Misool, Salawati, Batanta and Waigeo. It encompasses more than 9.8 million acres (40,000 km²) of land and sea, which also contains Cenderawasih Bay, the largest marine national park in Indonesia. It is a part of the newly named West Papua (province) of Indonesia which was formerly Irian Jaya.

According to the Conservation International Rapid Assessment Bulletin the marine life diversity is considerably greater than all other areas sampled in the Coral Triangle of Indonesia, Philippines and Papua New Guinea. The Coral Triangle is the heart of the world's coral reef biodiversity, the seas around Raja Ampat are possibly the richest in the world. The area's massive coral colonies show that its reefs are resistant to threats like coral bleaching and disease - threats that now jeopardise the survival of corals around the world, though the area is remote and relatively untouched by humans. In addition, Raja Ampat's strong ocean currents sweep coral larvae across the Indian and Pacific Oceans to replenish other reef ecosystems. Raja Ampat's coral diversity, resilience, and ability to replenish reefs make it a global priority for marine protection, as human activity here has the potential to be catastrophic.

Over 1,070 fish species, 537 coral species (a remarkable 96% of all scleratinia recorded from Indonesia are likely to occur in these islands), and 699 mollusc species, the variety of marine life is staggering.[citation needed] Some areas boast enormous schools of fish and regular sightings of sharks, such as wobbegongs.

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