Liveaboard Diving Photo Workshops in the Andaman Islands

It was a sunny afternoon when our new guests boarded the S/Y Siren in Port Blair and after getting all the port clearance we headed south towards our first destination on our Andaman diving safari- “Cinque Island”, where we enjoyed a fantastic sunset and a restful evening. The diving started early the next morning with a check dive at Cinque and then on to “Fish Rock “, where a little bit current was just enough for schooling fish and even a few white tip reef sharks to pay us a visit. We spent the whole day diving around “Passage Island” and saw more bumphead parrotfish and large Napoleon wrasses. The following morning the current was a little stronger but this time we saw many barracudas, a couple of grey reef sharks and very friendly bumphead parrot fishes swam around us. The north east site of Passage Island brought us our first manta ray of the trip and then later in Cinque Island it was time to see the dolphins. Havelock was our next stop. Early in the morning at “The Wall” we were looking for ghost pipefish and then later at “Crazy Girl” we had a big surprise when 7 white tip sharks circled us.  Whilst we all had our lunch break a small group of pilot whales just swam pass the boat. The white tip reef sharks were still around for the second dive and even a grey reef shark showed up along with lots of snappers, sweetlips and groupers. For our last dive of the day we went to “Jackson”, a new site just found last week. Again we saw lots of trevallies hunting and big groupers and even an eagle ray flew by. What an awesome start to a great diving trip

After a break from 10 days the diving liveaboard S/Y Siren returned for her second months to the Andaman Islands. I have been looking forward to this, since I had spent 9 days in hot Chennai and eagerly awaiting her return. Worldwide Dive and Sail treated us to a delicious lunch in the Fortune Bay hotel in Port Blair. It was really nice to meet everybody in the restaurant and get to know ech other before we boarded, it was a international group coming from Australia, USA, Hong Kong, France, Hungary and Canada. So with the paperwork completed, the coastguard allowed us to board at 4pm and off we set, cruising out of the harbour for our fiest dive sites. We started with our dives the next day at Cinque Island and moved than on to Passage Island. On our check dive we saw already bumphead parrotfish and a small white tip reef shark. “Fishrock” was teaming with life, lot of snappers and grouper were around. On the afternoon dive at “Passage Island” a few lucky ones spotted their first manta.

The S/Y Siren welcomed her guests for the third trip this season. Again we had a international group of divers including an Italian TV team. Our first dive destination was “Passage Island” with his famous “Fish Rock”. A bit of current meant a lot of fish from fusiliers to white tip reef sharks and silver tip sharks. We spend the whole day here before cruising back towards Havelock with a short stop in Port Blair to pick up our last guest. A beautiful sunset and 100 dolphins kept us company along the way. We started the following morning with a great dive at “The Wall”, amazing visibility on a site normally known for only 10m. This time we had 20- 25 m and it was great to see the whole dive site with all the black corals, sea fans and fish life. After the first dive we cruised to “Minerva Ledge” with the famous “Crazy Girl”. The sea was like a mill pond, no wind, no waves amazing.  We did two dives here and enjoyed one of the highlight of this trip. The shear amount of fish is stunning, schools of barracudas, sweetlips, emperors, trevallies and fusiliers, lots of large barrel sponges and bushes of black coral.