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MV Adora dive boat review
MV Adora is a 37 meter beautiful liveaboard that was custom built in 2014 with the aim to offer divers fantastic diving trips in the Maldives. The boat normally runs 7 night tours around the central atolls.
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Ocean view cabin
This liveaboard has 11 cabins and can accommodate up to 21 diving guests. Each cabin has an en-suite bathroom and individually controlled air-conditioning.
MV Adora diving boat boasts 4 decks of comfort with plenty of space in which to relax and chat to other guests. The dining area is the main social spot of the boat with air-conditioning, comfortable sofas, large picture windows and a bar.
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Dining area
Guests can enjoy 3 meals a day consisting of a balance of international favorites and local cuisine with Maldivian, Indian and Sri Lankan influences. Main meals include breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks in between. Following each dive guests can expect tasty snacks such as biscuits and fresh coconuts. Tea, coffee and drinking water are complimentary.
Scuba Diving from the MV Adora takes place from the 20m fully equipped dive Dhoni, making sure that you will experience some of the best diving the Maldives has to offer.
Budget estimate for a trip: Starts at $2,100.00
Where does this liveaboard dive boat go?
Check out the fabulous places where this dive boat travels to.
Note: some destinations may not be listed below, please enquire for more details.
destination of the monthMaldives
Great Drift Dives, amazing place for underwater photography. Good chance of spotting Manta Rays and Whale Sharks!
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Had a dive booked on Adora in November 2015. Terrible experience. The boat wasn’t ready, the air-con had exploded and most of the rooms were flooded. The captain was also the main scuba divemaster (which is major breach of safety and diving regulation) and he was also repairing the engine and the aircon. After a few hours realising how bad and dangerous it would be, we had to phone our travel agents to ask to be placed on another liveaboard which happened that night. The Adora crew was very inexperienced. There were no other divemasters outside the captain and the staff were cheap labour from Sri Lanka who didn’t speak English. Experience from hell.
My husband and I have recently returned from a 7 night Liveaboard on the Adora. The Boat is lovely, nice cabins with ensuite bathrooms, clean and comfortable. Food was great and the boat crew on the Adora and the Dhoni were very good. We were not given a safety briefing for the Adora or the Dhoni. The down side to the trip was the diving. Don’t get me wrong some of the dives were the best I have ever done, we saw whalesharks, mantas, lots of sharks, turtles and more morays than I could count. However we also had a couple of the worst diving experiences in 30 years of diving. When we boarded the boat we were given a form to fill out but our dive cards were not sighted and no one spoke to any of us to find out what kind of experience we had or if we had dived in the sort of conditions that we were likely to experience there. One of the divers on our boat had only done 39 dives and had not dived for 5 years, she was very nervous. She was one of 5 single divers on the boat who were not put in buddy pairs and was left to sort herself out. There were 3 dive-masters to 17 divers which was not enough. It was not clear which groups we were in or what the procedures were. The dive briefings were confusing and unclear and we often entered the water not knowing what to expect. On more than one dive the boat dropped us too far away from the reef which meant that we spent the first 10 minutes swimming against a very strong current. The divemasters all had extra long fins so were much more able to cope with the currents than we were, its very nerve wracking when you are battling against the current going nowhere and your divemaster is disappearing in the distance. On the second day of the trip we were dropped too far from the reef, having battled a very strong current for 10+ minutes, Deko the divemaster in charge made the decision to turn around and go with the current. He sent his SMB up to alert the boat. One diver (who had no buddy) informed her divemaster that she was going up as she was too tired to continue, he let her go up on her own. About 20 minutes later the rest of us surfaced. We then waited on the surface for 45 minutes because the boat was not there. The waves were over a metre high and we were being pushed back onto the reef. A couple of people in the group got very sick and were throwing up. A number of us were getting very worried and anxious. The divemasters said nothing to make us feel better. They just said “the boat was not expecting us to be up yet and they are not expecting us to be where we are, they will start looking for us soon”. It was extremely concerning that the boat had gone off somewhere and if there had been an emergency it would not have been on hand to deal with it. When we got back to Adora I asked Deko to come and talk to us all after lunch about what had happened to ensure that it did not happen again, because at that point most of us wanted to go home. We did not trust our dive masters or the boat crew which on Day 2 was a problem. Things did improve after that and on every other dive we did the boat was there when we surfaced, but I would not recommend diving on the Adora if you do not have a lot of experience and are not able to take control of your own safety. If you are a single diver you may not be given a buddy and left to your own devices. The lady who only had 39 dives was so traumatized by the experience on Day 2 that she said she was never going to dive again and she didn’t until Thursday and that was only because she was very closely looked after by other divers on the boat with whom she felt safe.