Why Choose the Ilike in Komodo?
The MSY Ilike offers an outstanding boutique liveaboard experience for exploring Komodo National Park. Combining traditional Indonesian craftsmanship with comfortable accommodation, attentive service and small guest numbers, Ilike provides a relaxed way to discover one of the world’s most exciting dive destinations.
The park is celebrated as having some of the best drift diving in the world. Glide past colourful, vibrant coral reefs teeming with life, as their inhabitants go about their daily activities. Keep your eyes peeled for pelagics, sharks and manta as they come swooping in out of the deep blue. Dive some incredible macro sites to boot with cute frogfish, delicate nudibranchs and mesmerising octopuses, to name just a few.
Komodo is one of those places that will capture your heart and have you planning to return before you have even left.
Boutique Mid-Range Liveaboard Experience
For the level of service, attention to detail, diving experience and drive to be inclusive, all at a mid-range price. The MSY Ilike gets our vote for one of Indonesia’s best mid-range priced dive liveaboards.
Constructed in Bira, Sulawesi, in 2010, the MSY Ilike is a traditional Indonesian style Phinisi yacht. She is a spacious, comfortable dive liveaboard that cruises Indonesia’s best scuba locations. Boasting two marine engines for speed and safety, she heads to Raja Ampat, Komodo, the Banda Sea and Alor. The yacht maintains all the necessary equipment to ensure your well being onboard.
Accommodation
The MSY Ilike liveaboard caters for up to 16 guests in 8 cabins. All cabins have individually controlled air conditioning, en-suite bathrooms, and hot and cold showers. In addition, the thoughtfully designed rooms can be laid out as twins or doubles, so can easily provide for your requirements. The yacht offers a large comfortable outside deck where you can chill out after an incredible days diving.
The Diving
Komodo National Park offers some of Indonesia’s most exhilarating diving, combining thrilling drift dives with encounters featuring manta rays, reef sharks, turtles and enormous schools of fish.
Healthy coral reefs, volcanic seascapes and world-famous sites such as Batu Bolong, Castle Rock and Manta Point make every day different.
With experienced guides and two stable dive tenders, Ilike ensures divers are in the right place at the right time to experience Komodo’s spectacular underwater encounters while diving safely and comfortably.
Food Onboard
Dining aboard Ilike combines fresh Indonesian flavours with international cuisine, thoughtfully prepared each day using locally sourced ingredients whenever possible. Meals are enjoyed in the vessel’s relaxed outdoor dining area, where guests can enjoy sweeping views of Komodo National Park between dives.
Whether you’re refuelling after an exhilarating drift dive or relaxing as the sun sets over the national park, every meal is prepared to complement the easy-going atmosphere onboard. Dietary requirements can be accommodated with advance notice, including plant-based and vegan meals, reflecting Infinite Blue Dive Travel’s commitment to vegan dive travel.
Vegan, plant-based and cruelty-free scuba ❤️
Liveaboard Facilities
- Life Vests
- Life Rafts
- Fire alarms
- GPS
- Satelite & mobile phones
- First Aid Kit
- Oxygen Kit
- Radio
- Shaded dive deck
- INT Tanks
- DIN Tanks
- Rental Equipment
- Plant-based meals available
- Indoor Salon
- Outdoor Dining
- Audio & Video System
- Freshwater maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Deck Towels
- Cabin towels
- Nitrox
- Camera Rinse Tanks
- Camera/Video Storage
- A/C cabins
Trip Exclusions
Kindly note trip cost excludes Marine Park | Port | Fuel surcharge (payable onboard), equipment rental (if any), and PADI course fees (if any).
Don’t hesitate to contact us for exact details, as the above charges may alter depending on which dive cruise itinerary interests you.
Itinerary
10D/9N Komodo dive Itinerary on the MSY Ilike
Schedule
Day 1: The crew will welcome you upon arrival at the local airport, and guide you to Ilike.
Day 2 – 7: Up to 3 dives per day + Night dive where possible
Dive Sites
World-class macro dive site as your check-out dive in Bima Bay. The visibility might not be as far as you like, but this muck dive will surprise you with the number of critters you can find.
Next, you will visit Sangeang Island. A volcanic island that last erupted in 2015. There are still a few islanders remaining on this island. The diving is spectacular. There are fantastic black sandy slopes with excellent macro. Hot Rocks is a unique dive as tiny bubbles emerge from the bottom and the rocks, giving the site an amazing effect.
Komodo National Park
Entering Komodo National Park in the North, the water temperature is usually still nice and warm from the Flores Sea. Fish are abundant on these underwater pinnacles; schooling surgeons, big eye jacks, snapper or barracudas and pelagics are a common sight.
The diversity of sites is unbelievable here in Komodo, from underwater pinnacles to sloping sandy bottoms with manta cleaning stations to driving along a beautiful coral reef.
Komodo South
The further South you travel, the water temperature will also drop. Padar Island has some beautiful sites where we can start to feel the influence of the Indian Ocean. More water nutrients give the corals a different look, colours are sharper, and fish life changes.
Even further South is Nusa Kode. This horseshoe-shaped bay has stunning corals in a rainbow of colours and sizes. Fish live in abundance, and creatures you may have never seen before may remind you of the monsters that live under your bed as a child.
These nutrients also bring bigger pelagic fish, like the majestic manta rays. We can see them chasing each other or getting cleaned at the cleaning station. Also, there have been sightings of the elusive sunfish or Mola Mola.
Your trip is incomplete without meeting with the last living dinosaurs, the Komodo Dragons. You will get to see them up close at the National Park. With some luck, you will also see macaque monkeys, some deer, wild pigs, and wild horses.
Day 8: On the day of disembarkation, the crew will transport you to the airport for a domestic flight back.
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