Calico Jack

Affordable Luxury and Adventure

The Calico Jack is a beautiful balance of intimacy, comfort, and adventure for your next Indonesian dive cruise.

The Liveaboard

Calico Jack liveaboard under sail | Infinite Blue Dive TravelBuilt in the traditional Indonesian Phinsi style, Calico Jack hit the water back in 2013 and has been plying the waters of the Indonesian archipelago ever since.

This 30 metres yacht is crewed by a passionate and experienced group of 11, offering fantastic personalized service blended with a spirit of exploration and adventure.

She also sports two engines, adding extra safety to your next Indonesian scuba adventure.

Accommodation

Calico Jack liveboard | Infinite Blue dive travelCabins onboard the Calico Jack offer a luxurious and comfortable retreat for divers exploring the underwater wonders of Indonesia. Each cabin is meticulously designed with a focus on functionality and aesthetics, providing a cosy haven for guests after a day of exhilarating diving experiences.

High-quality materials and attention to detail create an ambience of sophistication, ensuring guests can unwind and recharge in style.

Food Onboard

Calico Jack dining area | Infinite Blue Dive TravelThe inclusive kitchen is trained in Asian and Western fusion cuisine and can cater to any dietary preference.

Breakfasts, lunch and dinners are served buffet-style around the communal table, bringing you together over fantastic food to discuss your incredible day diving Raja Ampat.

For more information regarding the menu and what is available for plant-based divers, do not hesitate to get in touch.

 

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 that the 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

Day 1: Embarkation in Sorong

Meet & greet at the airport. Group transfer to the port—onboarding, meeting the crew & briefing.

We will pick you up at your hotel or Sorong airport and take you to the harbour, where our crew will welcome you onboard Calico Jack. Following refreshments and a short ship tour, you will be briefed on safety, diving operations, and life onboard.

We will set sail at approximately 11 am (or when the last guest has boarded) and cruise through Sele Strait to reach the East of Misool, a navigation of roughly 12 hours. This will allow time for you to get acquainted with the ship, set up your dive gear & cameras and meet and socialise with the other guests and friendly crew.

Days 2-6: Southern Raja Ampat/Misool (16-18 Dives)

Misool is located South of Raja Ampat and is famous for its steep rocks with vertical walls, a profusion of soft, colourful corals, sea fans draped brilliantly over the reefs and plenty of fish. Areas group the islands around East Misool.

These are the areas you can expect to visit (weather permitting) and the most popular dive sites we frequent:

  • 1) Balbulol (No Contest, Dangerous Kayak, Love Potion, Number 9, Pet Rock)

Schools of snapper and bumphead parrotfish can be found at these dive sites, including barracudas and jacks surrounding the pinnacles. You will spend the night in the hidden lagoon, a special anchorage inside a narrow bay enclosed by towering rocks.

We will take the dinghies to explore another lagoon located further into the rocks, and as night falls, you will see and hear the magnificent Palm Cockatoos roosting along the rainforest edges

  • 2) Daram (Candy Store, Warna Berwana, Andiamo)

Andiamo is a large, stunning reef with a submerged pinnacle covered in sea fans and surrounded by schools of fusiliers and batfish. Black tip reef sharks and Napoleon wrasse can also be found here. Candy Store, named so as the first divers to explore this reef, felt like kids in a candy store, covered in giant sponges, beautiful soft corals, and sea fans.

In the valleys, schools of fusiliers, butterfly fish and barracuda gather.

  • 3) Warokaraket/Boo Island (Shadow Reef, Jamur Boo, Yellit Kecil or Besar) + Night Dive

Shadow Reef, also known as Magic Mountain, is one of the top-rated diving sites in Raja Ampat. An offshore pinnacle with a long and narrow ridge, shoals of bannerfish, pyramid butterfly and yellow snappers can be seen frolicking on top of the ridge, persistently stalked by giant trevallies, orange-spotted jacks & longnose emperors.

The ridge goes progressively down, with yellowtail barracudas patrolling the upper sector and white tip and grey reef sharks found nestled under the large coral tables.

At the end of the peninsular is a cleaning station where oceanic manta rays come to be cleaned from parasites by wrasse and other reef fish.

Boo Rock or Jamur Boo is known for the “windows” or rounded openings on the end of the largest rock that completely pierce the reef from the surface down to five meters deep.

Although the two rocks appear separate from the surface, they are in fact connected underwater by a magnificent reef draped in soft corals and brimming with fish.

Reef sharks, parrotfish, surgeonfish, schooling batfish, fusiliers, snappers, and moray eels are all found here, as well as a wide variety of nudibranchs, unicornfish, octopus and green turtles. Yellit Kecil’s (whilst sharing all of the attributes of its neighbouring sites) main characteristic is the large number of nembrotha nudibranchs observed on the ridge.

  • 4) Wayilbatan (Dunia Kecil, Barracuda Rock, Four Kings, Wedding Cake) + Night Dive

The Wayilbatan area offers impressive dive sites with a remarkable range of marine diversity and topography. At Wedding Cake, schools of batfish, trevallies, barracuda and pygmy seahorses congregate. In the afternoon, you will have the opportunity to take in scenic landscapes with some kayaking and paddle boarding amongst the most spectacular hidden lagoons in the region.

Four Kings dive site comprises four underwater pinnacles covered in soft coral and colourful tunicates. You can swim from one rock to the next, enjoying the soft corals, psychedelic colours and abundant fish life. Be sure to look out for turtles here.

  • 5) Yilliet (No Contest, Dangerous Kayak, Love Potion, Number 9, Pet Rock)

In the early morning, we will take short navigation to dive the Fiabacet area where colourful soft corals and beautiful sea fans smother the reefs. A deep underwater ridge connects the islands of Boo in the East to Kalig in the West. In certain areas, the ridge moves up shallower to form the most fantastic dive sites of the park.

These include Batu Kecil (Tank Rock), Nudi Rock and Whale Rock. Here, you will find one of Raja Ampat’s most extensive reef systems, offering a fantastic range of marine diversity. You can expect abundant and healthy fish life, a galore of pygmy seahorses, nudibranchs, colourful anemones and reef sharks.

  • 6) Wagmab (3 Rocks, Goa Farondi)

Located 20 km from Misool Island, this islet of Farondi is a favoured dive site in Raja Ampat due to its unique and distinctive landscape, which consists of tunnels, caverns, boulders and colourful walls. The western face of Farondi Island has two large caves with a shallow reef and a dramatic cliff north of the headland.

Here, a shallow garden of stony corals gradually becomes a sandy slope home to large gorgonian fans and barbican pygmy seahorses.

Goa Besar, situated south of Farondi, consists of superficial shelved gardens of yellow-coloured soft corals, wall tops blanketed with plate corals, leather corals, yellow and purple sea squirts, and rounded hollows filled with coral shrubberies, sponges and red ornamental ghost pipefish.

Tunnels in the caves collide with green soft coral trees and sponges and house night-time snapper and sweetlips. Late in the afternoon, after your third dive, we will depart North and set sail for an overnight cruise to Penemu Island, navigation of approximately 12 hours.

Day 7: Penemu (3 Dives)

Early in the morning, we will arrive at Penemu’s My Reef dive site, where you will enjoy one of the largest populations of fish in the area. This site is very impressive, particularly when the current is strong. After breakfast, you will dive Melissa’s Garden; the most well-known site in the region, famous for its extensive and healthy hard coral reefs and Galaxy; a large reef with abundant marine life.

After your third dive, you will take a short boat tour to Penemu and walk up to the famous viewpoint above Penemu’s star-shaped lagoons in the afternoon. Here, you will have time to kayak and paddleboard amongst the incredible karst limestone landscape before sunset and dinner onboard.

Day 8: Wofo (4 Dives)

We start the day with early navigation to the Wofo Island area, the most northern point of our cruise. Here, in the morning, you will dive at Wofo’s Black Forest, a stunning dive traversing the deep black fan landscape and rising to a beautiful and pristine shallow reef.

The second dive is at Wofo Tembok(a wall dive) and Teman Wofo. The evening will be spent on the beach, experiencing one of Calico Jack’s famous beach BBQ parties, where the crew will entertain and socialise with you as you relax on our giant bean bags under a pagoda, explore the beach and meet the local hermit crabs.

Day 9: Gam (3 Dives)

An early morning navigation brings us to the stunning Mangrove Anchorage in the passage of Gam and Yangeffo. Here you will find some of the most spectacular dive sites in West Waigeo: Citrus Ridge, Mayhem and Way Pretty Shallow.

In the right conditions, you can expect some of the highest voltage diving in Raja Ampat, with currents bringing massive schools of barracudas, three species of fusiliers, trevallies, batfish, bump head parrotfish, wobbegongs, as well as black and white tip reef sharks.

Day 10: Arborek (4 dives)

After awakening within the mangroves, we will make the short journey to dive at Lalosi, a hard coral sea-mount with a highly diverse range of sea life when the currents are strong. From here, we dive at one of the most reliable Manta ray congregation spots in Raja Ampat, the famous cleaning station, Manta Sandy.

It is easy to spend a whole day observing these majestic creatures as they somersault through the water, feeding on plankton and being cleaned by several species of wrasse and butterfly fish. In the afternoon, we’ll make our way to Arborek in Dampier Strait, where you will visit the local village and see the traditional way of life for these island people before enjoying a night dive at the Arborek Pier.

The posts at Arborek Pier in the shallows are covered in soft corals, with pipefish and cuttlefish dwelling deeper below. On the reef, giant clams nestle among soft corals, providing shelter for hermit crabs, flatworms and skeleton shrimp.

Day 11: Dampier Straight (2 Dives)

The final dive will be in the morning at Cape Kri, where you will discover some of the largest concentrations of big fish in Raja Ampat. Large schools of trevallies, barracudas, bannerfish, sweetlips, tuna and snappers congregate on these sites. Large grey reef sharks can also be seen.

In the afternoon, we have time to relax on one of Kri’s stunning secluded beaches before sailing back to Sorong, where you will arrive later in the evening.

Day 12: Disembarkation in Sorong

After breakfast and the last exchange of photos and memories, the crew and Calico Jack will say our fondest farewells and transport you either to your hotel or airport

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