Seadoors Philippines

SEadoors liveaboard, Philippines

Tubbataha and Visayas (2-11 Nights) | From $317++/night

The Seadoors is a French-owned scuba diving liveaboard built with photographers and tech divers in mind.

Location

Seadoors cruises Tubbataha between March and June and the Visayas between July and February.

Dive Overview

Diving the Philippines means access to a wide assortment of marine environments, such as coastal reefs and steep walls and pinnacles. Seadoors places divers amongst beautiful corals and a plethora of wildlife. Whale sharks frequent many of the dive sites.

Learn more on Tubbataha diving and Malapascua diving or see Seadoor's itineraries.

Back to Menu 

Accommodations

Types of Cabins, Amenities and Photos

Seadoors Accommodation Overview

She has eight comfortable air-conditioned cabins with private showers and toilet, hot water, a double bed and a single bed in every cabin, two deluxe cabins. All cabins have windows in the bathrooms. Luxury Cabins are more spacious, with access in the bed by both sides, four windows, numerous cabinets, desk. The standard cabins have a good space, three windows, cabinets, desk. All the cabins have a queen size bed and a single bed, they are perfectly adapted for sharing, a spacious hot water shower bathroom, and private toilet. Towels are supplied. The cabins are air-conditioned, the window in the bathroom gives a good ventilation. Plugs are in 220V adapter are not necessary.

Deluxe (LEFT) & Standard (RIGHT) Cabins

Back to Menu  

General Facilities

Front Deck (LEFT) & Sundeck (RIGHT)

Dive Deck (LEFT) & Chase Boat (RIGHT)

Seadoors BoAt Features

• Cozy air-conditioned living-room for relaxation
• Outside dining room
• Bar on the back poop deck
• Sundeck
• Solarium in the bow

Seadoors Dive Facilities

• Diving platform with personal arrangements
• Two compressors 18 m3 nitrox mixer
• Booster
• Rebreather Megalodon
• Two 8m polyester chase boats powered with outboard engines 55HP
• Nitrox

Food & Drinks Aboard Seadoors

• The local menus and French food will give you papillae pleasure.
• Wine amaters will find some in the cellar of the seadoors, there is a fresh cupboard with beers and home-made fruit juice.
• Alcoholic drinks prices are noted in the price lists menu, sodas, water, tea, coffee and fruit juices are free.
• You will enjoy the early morning breakfast before the first dive, the copious breakfast after the first dive, lunch at noon, snacks in the afternoon and dinner at the end of the day.
• The bar is permanently open, a waiter will be always there to serve you.

Back to Menu

Seadoors Liveaboard Deck Plan

  Back to Menu

Schedule, Rates & availability

The actual rates are based in EUR. The starting price indicated above may vary based on the current exchange rate.

The rates shown below are per person in USD. The pricing at the time of booking may vary depending on the latest EUR/USD exchange rate. 

[See also: Inclusions & Exclusions]

Inclusions

• The transfers from the local airport or from your hotel towards the boat round trip
• The lodging on board in cabin (double bed + single bed) shower and private toilet
• All meals on board, the coffee from (coffeepot), tea, fruit juices
• Non-alcoholics drinks (juice, soda, water etc.)
• 3 to 4 dives including night dive, subject to the conditions of navigation and dive safety
• Tank12L, ballast and belts

Exclusions

• Possible fuel surcharge
• The marine park taxes
• The dive risk insurance
• The repatriation insurance
• The cancelation insurance
• The rent of equipment
• Alcoholic drinks, coffee espresso
• The Airport taxes
• The air transports
• The excursions
• All meals out of the boat
• Hotel rooms
• The dive Guide for the divers having less than 30 dives whatever level
• The nitrox
• The tank 15l
• Additional charge deluxe cabins

Rates & Availability

For more information on rates and availability email us at info@bluewaterdivetravel.com or call us at +1-310-915-6677.

  Back to Menu  

Dive Information & Itineraries

Itinerary Overview

SEADOORS proposes scuba diving liveaboards in the Philippines archipelago, on two different locations: the Tubbataha Atolls and the Visayas archipelago. They take place in two well defined seasons. The transition liveaboards crossing the Sulu Sea mixes the better of each.

• 1. TUBBATAHA from March to June. These Atolls, of world reputation, are in the center of SULU SEA, in a national sanctuary, registered by UNESCO world heritage
• 2. VISAYAS in July August and October to March with several itineraries: MALAPASCUA, CAMIGUIN, VISAYAS LONG TRIP, VISAYAS SPECIAL SHARKS, 
• VISAYAS SIYAM ARAW, on world-famous scuba diving spot
• 3. The two transition liveaboards cross the SULU SEA, from Cebu in March, from Palawan in June, an unforgettable trip which explores the Tubbataha Atolls, the Cagayan Islands and Visayas archipelago.

Tubbataha Itinerary

• Arrival to PUERTO PRINCESA, A guide will pick you up at your hotel or at the airport, and will drive you to Seadoors. Welcome on board, safety boat briefing and assignation of cabins. We will sail to the atolls for 9 hours.
• D1 NORTH ATOLL MALAYAN WRECK, drift dive on a wall covered by sea fans, we often see Hammerhead Sharks. Grey sharks and whitetip Sharks are always in the area. The very nice reef gives refuge to nurse shark. We end the dive on the wreck with Bumphead Parrotfishes. The spot of Wall Street is on a sharp corner in powerful current appreciated by the grey sharks and schools of juvenile sharks. Night dive on Malayan Wreck with the Bumphead Parrotfishes and the turtles
• D2 SOUTH ATOLL KO OK, in the blue, we look for a school of hammerhead sharks. We end on a magnificent coral plateau under the shadow of jack fishes school. 
• DELSAN WRECK, jackfishes, grey sharks, whitetip sharks, Tawny nurse shark, sometimes tiger shark and whale sharks come to this cleaning station. 
• TRIGGER FISH CITY, a drifting scuba dive above a shining white sand plateau in contrast with Japanese gardens, the sun lightning the corals give an extraordinary dimension to this dive.
• D3 BLACK rock two dives to enjoy this gigantic cleaning station. Long drifting scuba dive on hundreds of meters, we cross big pélagiques, schools of reef fishes. It is very common to see eagle rays, 
• school of grey sharks, black and white tip sharks. AMOS ROCK a nice wall very rich in hard and soft corals. School of Barracudas, the big Stingray, the marble ray, and big pélagiques. Aperitif on the rangers Island ...... sunset on the beach.
• D4 NORTH ATOLL, SHARK AIRPORT. The biggest cleaning station of Tubbataha, a spot with perfect dimensions for scuba diving. A drift dive on an extremely rich plateau. Everything can arrive, Schools of silky sharks, schools of grey sharks, whitetip sharks. The luckiest shall meet whale shark and especially the guitar shark! SEAFAN ALLEY is a wall covered with giants gorgonians on hundreds of meters.
• D5 JESSIE BEAZLEY is an outside reef in the north-west of the atolls. An outstanding atmosphere for a dive with extreme feelings. Hammerhead sharks, silky sharks and grey sharks are frequent. The coral garden, very protected makes gigantic stairs of acropores. The current is there sometimes strong and attracts the big pélagiques and the whale sharks to eat plankton.
• Return to Puerto Princesa. You will be transferred to the airport or to your hotel.
• The route can undergo modifications according to the weather conditions or the safety conditions. The description of the dives is based on what we were able to observe regularly, but every dive is different.

Visayas-Malapascua Itinerary

• Arrival to CEBU, our guide will pick you up at your hotel or at the airport, and drive you to the boat, welcome on board, safety briefing and assignation of cabins.
• D1 MONAD SHOAL, quite unique cleaning station for Thresher Sharks, flights of Mobula Rays, Doña Marylin, the wreck of a Ferry 30 m deep, interesting peripheral and internal exploration , Gato Island, the tunnel passage which crosses the island covered with Yellow anemones, whitetip sharks spectators, pygmies seahorses , Harlequin shrimps and Spider Crabs. We end the day with an exceptional night dive.
• D2 MARIPIPI, Bull Shark Reef, magnificent high bottom, well-preserved coral, abundant fauna white and blacktip Sharks.......Punk Forest, mess of black coral with different fluorescent colors. The dive end up into Canyons covered by giant sea fans. South Point easy drifting scuba dive on a rocky bottom. There are massives fallen rocks and canyons dressed in soft corals, rich in Barracudas and angelfishes.
• D3 MONAD SHOAL come back
• KIMOD in season will give the opportunity to interact with the school of hammerhead sharks.
CAMOTES small excursion to a cave where we shall rinse ourselves in a fresh water underground swimming
• pool and visit an elementary school of a typic village. Night dive on Tulang Island walls.
• D4 Southern LEYTE, Limasawa, deep wall, wonderful coral garden, huge sea fans, whale sharks on the season. Medicare, slope with Ghostpipe fishes, nudibranchs varieties of sea turtles, crinoids, squat lobsters, frogfishes, seahorses ..... Padre Burgos one of the best night dive of Philippines, many endemic species, sea turtles, nudibranchs, seahorses, stargazers frogfishes, crocodile fishes ......
• D5 LEYTE Panaon Island
• Napantao, one of the top ten dives in Visayas, as much by the diversity of the Flora and the fauna as by the density, black Coral, Seafans, pygmies seahorses, Exploration of an underwater river of fresh water which develops a particular ecosystem. Sometimes whale shark in the South of the island.
• Return to Cebu, transfer to the international airport.
• The route can undergo modifications according to the weather conditions or the safety conditions. The description of the dives is based on what we were able to observe regularly, but every dive is different.

Visayas-Camiguin Itinerary

• Arrival to CEBU, A guide will pick you up at your hotel or at the airport, and drive you to the boat. Welcome on board, safety briefing and assignation of cabins.
• D1 Southern LEYTE, Limasawa, Walls with a magnificent coral garden and sea fans.
• We can swim with Whale sharks during season. Medicare, a steep slope where there are ghost pipefishes (also called false pipefishes or tube-mouth fishes, ghost fishes), nudibranchs, green sea turtles, crinoids, squat lobster, frogfishes, seahorses.... Padre Burgos, a remarkable night dive certainly the most beautiful of the Philippines There are many endemic species, turtles, nudibranchs, seahorses, stargazer, crocodile fishes
• D2 LEYTE Panaon Island
• Napantao, one of the top ten dives in Visayas, as much by the diversity of the Flora and the fauna as by the density, black Coral, Seafans, pygmies seahorses, Exploration of an underwater river of fresh water which develops a particular ecosystem. Sometimes whale shark in the South of the island.
• D3 CAMIGUIN Bulias Reef is a reef with black coral and soft corals, Tunas, jackfishes, moray. Mantigue Island is a sanctuary with huge schools of jack fishes, samaral rabbitfishes, lutjanus fishes, Red Emperor Snapper Fishes....., White Island large variety of hard and soft corals giant sea fans, sponges, pygmies seahorses sea turtles jacks fishes, nudibranchs, spider crabs, frogfishes stingrays ....
• D4 Day program: Whale sharks....
• BALICASAG, Black Forest is a 45 m wall with sea fans, corals, barracudas, uncountable turtles schools of jack fishes. Rudy Rock 50 m, wall, coral and gorgonians varied Triggerfishes, Bathfishes, moray Frog fishes, ghost pipefishes. Cathedral is a wall with magnificent light effects. A lot of different species of fishes can be seen as triggerfishes, snappers, sweet lips...
• D5 CABILAO Light House is a 60m wall. We can see Dogtooth tuna, Rainbow runners fishes, Napoleon Truck Wrasse. View Point a Plateau: with several soft corals and sea fans with pygmies seahorses, syngnathus, leaf fishes, angelfishes, oriental Sweet Lips, gropper, scorpionfishes.
• Return to Cebu, transfer to the international airport.
• The route can undergo modifications according to the weather conditions or the safety conditions. The description of the dives is based on what we were able to observe regularly, but every dive is different.

Visayas Special Shark Diving

• The Visayas diving liveaboard special shark in the Philippines, starting from Cebu, is a diving liveaboard with M/V Seadoors focusing on the watching of Visayas sharks. This diving liveaboard sails all around the Visayas, to dive at Malapascua, Leyte, Bohol, Apo Island. To the program the threshers Sharks of Malapascua, the majestic whale sharks of Visayas, but also all the range of the coral sharks. The hammer sharks, grey sharks, tiger sharks will be more difficult to chase away
• The diving liveaboard route is directed to the shark search, it can increase the distances, the navigation is mostly by night.
• This diving liveaboard is for confirmed divers.

Cebu-Sulu Itinerary

• Arrival to CEBU City, A guide will pick you up at your hotel or at the airport, and will transfer you to the boat. Welcome on board, boat briefing and assignation of cabins.
• D1 Day program THE WHALE SHARKS. BALICASAG, Black Forest wall 45 m deep with sea fans, corals, barracudas, uncountable turtles, schools of jack fishes.
• CABILAO, SUMILON island
• D2 RUDY ROCK 50 m wall deep, coral and gorgonians varied Triggerfishes, Bathfishes, moray Frogfishes, ghost pipefishes.
• CATHEDRAL, wall, with magnificent lighting effects with Triggerfishes Titans and Picasso, hudge Jack fishes...
• D3 APO ISLAND: WEST ROCK & EAST ROCK.
• Staggering coral reef sloping down ending in a wall. Commonly seen leave fish, ghost pipefish and frogfishes.
• SANCTUARY is a huge hard coral garden. The coral formations are perfect, we can spot mandarin fishes.
• D4 CAGAYAN ISLANDS, CALUSA ISLAND. It is a small island near Cagayans, in the center of Sulu Sea. We dive early morning to see all the reef sharks and turtles in this extraordinary reef. SUB WAY it is a straight wall with a kind of way on the wall done by sea erosion. It is all covered with giant sea fans. We can spot barracudas hunting, as well as sharks, school of jack fishes.
• D5 JESSIE BEAZLEY is an outside reef in the north-west of Tubbataha atolls. An outstanding atmosphere for a dive with extreme feelings. Hammerhead sharks, silky sharks and grey sharks are frequent. The coral garden, very protected makes gigantic stairs of acropores. The current is there sometimes strong and attracts the big pélagiques and the whale sharks to eat plankton.
• D6 SOUTH ATOLL KO OK. Looking for a school of hammerhead sharks in the blue, we continue on a magnificent coral plateau under the shadow of a school of jackfishes. DELSAN WRECK. jack fishes, grey sharks, whitetip sharks, Tawny nurse shark, sometimes tiger shark and whale sharks come to this cleaning station. TRIGGER FISH CITY, a drifting scuba dive above a shining white sand plateau in contrast with Japanese gardens, the sun lightning the corals give an extraordinary dimension to this dive.
• D7 NORTH ATOLL, SHARK AIRPORT. The biggest cleaning station of Tubbataha, a spot with perfect dimensions for scuba diving. A drift dive on an extremely rich plateau. Everything can arrive, Schools of silky sharks, schools of grey sharks, whitetip sharks. The luckiest shall meet whale shark and especially the guitar shark! SEAFAN ALLEY is a wall covered with giants gorgonians on hundreds of meters.
• Arrival to PUERTO PRINCESA, you will be transferred to the airport or to your hotel.
• The route can undergo modifications according to the weather conditions or the safety conditions. The description of the dives is based on what we were able to observe regularly, but every dive is different.

Palawan-Sulu Itinerary

• Arrival to PUERTO PRINCESA, A guide will pick you up at your hotel or at Puerto Princesa airport and will drive you to the boat. Welcome on board, boat briefing, and assignation of cabins. We will sail for about 9 hours to the atolls.
• D1 NORTH ATOLL, SHARK AIRPORT. The biggest cleaning station of Tubbataha. a spot with perfect dimensions for scuba diving. A drift dive on an extremely rich plateau. Everything can arrive, Schools of silky sharks, schools of grey sharks, whitetip sharks. The luckiest shall meet whale shark and especially the guitar shark! SEAFAN ALLEY is a wall covered with giants gorgonians on hundreds of meters.
• D2 SOUTH ATOLL KO OK. Looking for a school of hammerhead sharks in the blue, we continue on a magnificent coral plateau under the shadow of a school of jack fishes. DELSAN WRECK. jack fishes, grey sharks, whitetip sharks, Tawny nurse shark, sometimes tiger shark and whale sharks come to this cleaning station.
• TRIGGER FISH CITY, a drifting scuba dive above a shining white sand plateau in contrast with Japanese gardens, the sun lightning the corals give an extraordinary dimension to this dive.
• D3 JESSIE BEAZLEY is an outside reef in the north-west of the atolls. An outstanding atmosphere for a dive with extreme feelings. Hammerhead sharks, silky sharks and grey sharks are frequent. The coral garden, very protected makes gigantic stairs of acropores. The current is there sometimes strong and attracts the big pélagics and the whale sharks to eat plankton.
• D4 CAGAYAN ISLANDS, CALUSA ISLAND. It is a small island near Cagayans, in the center of Sulu Sea. We dive early morning to see all the reef sharks and turtles in this extraordinary reef.
• SUB WAY is a straight wall with a kind of way on the wall done by sea erosion. It is all covered with giant sea fans. We can spot barracudas hunting, as well as sharks, school of jackfish.
• D5 APO ISLAND
• WEST ROCK & EAST ROCK. Staggering coral reef sloping down, ending in a wall. Commonly seen leave fish, ghost pipefish and frogfishes. SANCTUARY is a huge hard coral garden. The coral formations are perfect, we can spot mandarin fishes.
• D6 Day program: THE WHALE SHARKS.... BALICASAG, Black Forest wall 45 m deep with sea fans, corals, barracudas, uncountable turtles, schools of jack fishes.
• D7 Rudy Rock 50 m wall deep, coral and gorgonians varied Triggerfishes, Bathfishes, moray Frogfishes, ghost pipefishes. Cathedral, wall, with magnificent lighting effects with Triggerfishes Titans and Picasso, hudge Jack fishes...
• Arrival to CEBU CITY, you will be transferred to the airport or to your hotel.
• The route can undergo modifications according to the weather conditions or the safety conditions. The description of the dives is based on what we were able to observe regularly, but every dive is different.

Back to Menu  

Other Information

Boat Specifications

• Length: 25 m
• Width: 6 m
• Draft: 2.45 m
• Building materials: Steel
• Cruising speed: 10 knots

Practical Information

• Time Zone: UTC+8
• Local Currency: PHP (Philippines Peso)
• Language Spoken: English & French
• Electricity: 220V

Back to Menu  

Back to Menu  

Underwater Gallery 

Tubbataha:

Visayas:

  Back to Menu