Komodo Diving Liveaboard — Diving from LASHA

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.

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 — dive rates are on the rates page.

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.