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MV Celebes Explorer dive boat review
The 29 meters Celebes Explorer is the only liveaboard cruising around Malaysia’s Sipadan. Offering year round dive cruise in this rather lonely dive spot promises incredible encounters and some pristine scuba diving.
Boat Cabins & Layout
The Celebes Explorer features 8 cabins on-board, for a maximum capacity of 16 guests on each trip. Moreover, every cabin comes with an en-suite bathroom as well as air conditioning.
Also, you can choose from a few cabins layout. Indeed, the cabins are either 1 double bed or a double bed with single bunk on top.
You can check the latest schedule & prices for this liveaboard here.
Double bed cabin on-board the Celebes Explorer
Double and twin-bunk cabin
Celebes Explorer On-board Facilities
The vessel has an indoor lounge an mini bar as well as a partially covered sundeck where you can relax. Chairs, mats and tables are spread around for your convenience.
The delicious buffet meals are prepared fresh everyday and included a mix of Malaysian and Chinese fares.
Diving with the Celebes Explorer
Sipadan is known for it’s thousands of fishes (some exists only there), beautiful coral gardens and stunning drop-off walls. Also, only some resorts and diving institutions are granted permits to dive there, so it’s very well preserved. Indeed, the Celebes Explorer is one of the rare compagnies allowed permits to dive Sipadan’s best site. Plus, they offer you up to 4 dives per day.
Vessel Layout
Price starts at 1766$US for 8 days / 7 nights – Explore Sipadan
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.
Pom Pom Island
Nice and easy diving in a remote and beautiful island. Good spot for macro diving and underwater photography. Pulau Pom Pom is a great place to relax in the Celebes Sea in Sabah, Borneo.
Mataking Island
Great place for easy diving and snorkelling with beautiful reefs and coral gardens. Interesting macro diving, all in a remote and beautiful Island. Pulau Mataking is the place to be if you want to feel like Robin Crusoe with all the comforts.
Tioman island
Nice and easy diving in clear water and beautiful coral reefs. Good location to take diving courses.
Perhentian Islands
Nice and easy diving with nice coral and rich marine life. The snorkelling is very good with many harmless blacktip reef sharks.
Langkawi Island
Easy and relaxing diving for all level divers. Good wreck diving opportunities.
Sipadan
Big fishes Land! Incredible Marine Life with tons of fishes everywhere... Fantastic coral and very good visibility.
Mabul Island
Muck Diving Paradise and superb playground for macro photography with rare critter species.
destination of the monthLayang Layang
Schooling Hammerheads Sharks!!! Outstanding visibility, marine life, and pristine coral...
Lankayan
Very good muck and wreck diving with superb coral. Good chances to spot a whale Shark during the season.
Malaysia
Hundreds of dive sites to explore, including some of the most pristine reefs on earth, great Muck diving, remote islands as well as touristy spots... Malaysia has it all!
Kapalai, Sabah
Very easy and shallow Macro diving. Great place for underwater photography and Night Diving.
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Other Liveaboard Reviews in Kapalai & Mabul & Malaysia & Sipadan
Well, the only advantage of this boat is clearly that it’s the only one going to Sipadan. It’s an older, shabby vessel.
Good news is that I’ve heard that there’s a new boat coming soon… Not sure from which fleet but yay! Sipadan was amazing so I’d sure go back!
So for those going on the Celebes Explorer soon I will say don’t worry, the staff is great, the food is good and the journey’s worth the destination 100%.
For others,… well maybe wait for the new boat