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Your first liveaboard, demystified
What a week on a Maldivian dhoni actually looks like.
Editor User 22 Apr 2026
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A typical seven-night charter does three dives a day — dawn, mid-morning, sunset — plus an optional night dive. Between dives you eat, nap, read on the sundeck, and watch the next reef approach as the captain repositions. It is the laziest kind of busy you will ever do.
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