A trip report from Scuba Daan, shot and written on location with BookDiveBoat.

New Wave is our answer to a simple problem: people get certified, then never take the trip. Nobody tells them what a week at sea is really like. So we are telling them.

Six minutes of totality with the sun almost overhead, watched from the deck of a liveaboard off Marsa Alam. Diving before it, diving after it.

Photo Summer Encounter shows a diver and a manta ray sharing water. She took it on a trip with BookDiveBoat aboard Adora in the Maldives.

Giant mantas and schooling hammerheads sit 250 miles offshore, past a 24 to 28-hour crossing most divers never get to.

Is the Red Sea a Good First Trip?

Same country, two different dive parks — mild currents and record-breaking biodiversity in the west, strong currents and resident megafauna in the east.

A liveaboard puts you in the water 3–4 times a day for a week straight — most first-timers underestimate the rhythm of it.

Resident whale sharks, every month of the year.

🌊 Channels, currents and reef mantas — check Maldives liveaboard dates → MALDIVES · INDIAN OCEAN Maldives Liveaboard: A Guide to Atolls, Channels and Currents Twenty-six atolls, hundreds of channels, and a dive plan built entirely around reading the current — here’s how a Maldives liveaboard route actually works. 26 Atolls 15–30m Channel depth Mod–Strong […]

🦈 Schooling hammerheads, an anemone city, a 100-year-old lighthouse — check Egypt liveaboard dates → EGYPT · DEEP SOUTH Daedalus Reef: What to Expect on Egypt’s Deep South Sites A solitary reef roughly 90km offshore, reachable only by liveaboard, built around a historic lighthouse, schooling hammerheads and a wall of anemones known as Anemone City. […]

🦈 Two islands, two wrecks, one legendary drift — check Egypt liveaboard dates → EGYPT · RED SEA Diving the Brothers Islands: Egypt’s Signature Offshore Route Two remote islands 60km off Marsa Alam, reachable only by liveaboard, built around two wrecks, deep walls and pelagic sharks. 60km Offshore 2 Wrecks AOWD+ Recommended 8–90m Wreck depths […]

🐬 Four routes, one Red Sea — check Egypt dates → EGYPT · RED SEA Egypt Liveaboard: The Complete Red Sea Guide Wrecks off Hurghada, hammerheads at Daedalus, drift walls at St John’s — one week on a Red Sea liveaboard reaches sites no day boat can. 3 Main routes May–Oct Pelagic season 7 nights […]

🦈 Two coasts, one apex shark, two very different dives — check Mexico dates → MEXICO · CARIBBEAN & SEA OF CORTEZ Bull Shark Diving in Mexico: The Two Destinations Every Diver Should Know Pregnant females at 25m off Playa del Carmen November to March, or resident bulls inside Cabo Pulmo’s no-take park — same […]

🐋 Eight giant species, two seas, one coastline — check Mexico dates → MEXICO · BAJA CALIFORNIA Baja California’s Gentle Giants: A Diver’s Guide to the Megafauna Corridor Grey whales, blue whales, whale sharks, mantas and mobula schools share one corridor — each with its own season and its own rules. 8+ Giant species Snorkel […]

🦈 Hidden bait, fixed guide ratios, zero night dives — the protocol behind Fuvahmulah’s tiger sharks — check Maldives dates → MALDIVES · FUVAHMULAH Is Tiger Shark Diving in Fuvahmulah Safe? The Rules, the Risks and Why It Works No confirmed shark-attack incidents at Tiger Harbour, a strict feeding and group protocol, and certification minimums […]