Singapore - liveaboard suggestions

[kjonck]

Hi there.
I am an AOW, but don't have a lot of experience.
Next year (2011) I will travel through Singapore, and have a chance to stay for a couple of weeks. It will be in july or early august (flexible about dates). Now of course I would love to get to dive while being there, and am thinking about doing a liveaboard.
Therefore I was hoping someone in here could recommend a trip, location or company to travel with, from Singapore at this time a year. I've been trying to google it myself, but only found the black manta. This sounds great, but would like to check out alternatives also
Thank you for your help

Best,
Kjonck

 

[DevonDiver]

It's worth having a quick search on the liveaboard section of the 'Marketplace Trips' sub-forum..

Trips and Marketplace: Liveaboards - ScubaBoard

 

[Lj82]

There are also the MV dive race, MV Seaborne, MV Samdura Quest, and MV Mata Ikan.

 

[Quero]

You could get over to East Malaysia (Borneo) and dive from the Celebes Explorer. It doesn't depart from S'pore, but it's an easy flight out.

 

[Zippsy]

LJ has covered all of them. LOB's out of Singapore do almost exclusively weekend trips or charters. The new White Manta will be doing the same thing that time of year. The Black Manta will actually be operating in Layang Layang, Komodo and Rajah Ampat during the coming year after leaving Thailand at the end of March. If you want to do a longer LOB, Quero is right; you need to get out of Singapore on a budget airline to someplace nearby.

 

[kjonck]

Ok, thanks a lot. I'll check it out