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Dedicated Dive Deck

A Luxury Phinisi That Takes Diving Seriously

LASHA is a 52.5-metre luxury phinisi with a dedicated dive deck on the main deck, built for charters that mix serious diving with genuine comfort. Dive charters price $55 per guest per night above leisure rates — $750 in Komodo, $800 in Raja Ampat, Banda Sea, Wakatobi and Maratua — with snorkeling as the alternative for non-divers. Diving is one part of the wider LASHA liveaboard experience.

Most luxury boats treat diving as an excursion. LASHA treats it as architecture: the dive deck sits on the main deck at water level, purpose-placed so tanks, gear and dive briefings never cross paths with breakfast. You surface from a manta drift and the sun-deck jacuzzi is two flights up.

It is liveaboard function inside a 466 GT luxury hull: every cabin ensuite, marble bathrooms with rain showers, and enough deck separation that divers and non-divers keep their own rhythm without waiting on each other.

Komodo Dive Sites

Which Komodo Dive Sites Will LASHA Visit?

The tide tables write the order. The route bends around current, certification levels and ranger timing, with snorkeling tracks kept open for mixed groups.

Manta Point

The headline: reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) hold at 10-20 metres, friendly depths for every certification level on the right tide. Mantas are seen year-round, with the best odds September to May and a plankton-rich peak from December to March.

Batu Bolong & Central Komodo

Central-Komodo pinnacles work year-round, which is why they anchor so many dive itineraries. Visibility peaks at 30-40 metres from June to September, strongest in July and August.

North & South Seasons

The north fishes best from about March-April to October-November, while southern sites around Nusa Kode take over from October-November to February-March. A LASHA dive charter always has a working coastline.

Mixed Groups

Snorkelers drift Manta Point from the surface, swim Pink Beach, and run by tender to sandbars while divers work walls and pinnacles. Nobody aboard is reduced to waiting on somebody else's hobby.

Komodo National Park has 159,172 hectares of protected marine area inside the UNESCO World Heritage Site; route planning around tides and ranger schedules continues on the itineraries page.

Aboard

How Does a Dive Day Run?

The dive team briefs at the dive deck after dinner — sites, entries, currents, who dives with whom — so the morning starts with coffee, not logistics. Gear is already rigged; you step down one deck, roll off the stern, and the ship or tender picks the drift line.

Between dives the surface interval happens properly: hot showers in your own ensuite, the Lounge & Resto for second breakfast, loungers on the sun deck while tanks fill. Most charter days carry two to three dives, set by tides rather than a fixed count, with the afternoon slot sometimes traded for a Padar climb or beach hour when the non-divers vote loudly enough.

Bring a recognised certification card and honesty about your logbook. Komodo is current-driven diving — that moving water is exactly why the mantas come — so the team matches each day's sites to the group's certification levels and recent experience, and starts multi-day charters with an easier check dive.

Dive Rates

What Does a Dive Charter Cost?

Diving adds $55 per guest per night over the leisure rate in every overnight band. The exact numbers below come from the shared 2026-2027 rate file used by the homepage and rates page.

Program	Leisure rate	Dive rate	Whole boat dive, 1-14	Whole boat dive, 22
Komodo · Alor · Sumbawa · Lombok · Bali (min 2 nights)	$770/guest/night	$825/guest/night	$11,600/night	$18,200/night
Raja Ampat · Banda Sea · Wakatobi · Maratua (min 5 nights)	$825/guest/night	$880/guest/night	$12,400/night	$19,400/night

Park entrance fees are separate: $25 per guest per night on the programs above, and $35 on the Komodo 2D1N and 1-Day formats. Minimum 14 guests on overnight charters, with the FOC scale rising to four free-of-charge places by 22 paying guests.

Eastern Season

Does the Dive Program Continue Beyond Komodo?

Yes — it arguably peaks there. From roughly October to April LASHA repositions east with the rest of the luxury fleet, and the five-night expedition band opens Raja Ampat, Wakatobi and Maratua at the $800 dive rate.

The Banda Sea crossings that connect the seasons run in the inter-monsoon windows — September to November, prime hammerhead season by operator consensus, and again in March-April. For divers, the honest advice is to pick the season first and the destination second; the seasonal logic is laid out on the Raja Ampat & beyond page.

Plan your LASHA dive charter

Tell us your divers, snorkelers and month, and the desk will build the site list and exact dive-rate quote.

WhatsApp Komodo Luxury Email the charter desk

For hammerheads and open-sea crossings, read the Banda Sea crossing guide 2027.

Diving Raja Ampat instead of Komodo? The dedicated Raja Ampat diving liveaboard page covers the October–April expedition season.

Official booking, one door: every LASHA Phinisi Cruise reservation is handled end-to-end by Komodo Luxury, the vessel's official marketing partner — one WhatsApp line, one charter desk, verified payment channels.