Liveaboard safety / To extremes and back

Staff · Issue 146, Sep/Oct 2025 · pp. 4

Products mentioned: Nauticam MFO-3, Nauticam CMC-1, Nauticam CMC-2, Nauticam SMC-1, Nauticam SMC-2, Nauticam SMC-3

Editorial Liveaboard safety For decades, liveaboard dive boats have provided the perfect solution for diving remote locations in comfort and with easy access to the water. Add good food and convivial guests and you can have a productive, cost effective per dive, holiday. They are especially suited to keen underwater photographers who can return from a one week trip with over 20 dives of, let’s say, an hour each so that’s a lot of underwater photography time. In addition, not being land based gets you away from the dreaded ‘sand on the O ring’ syndrome. Of all the seas in the ocean, the Red Sea must have the highest concentration of liveaboards and recently, unfortunately, it has become the highest concentration of accidents either from fire and/or water ingress. The past five years have seen 16 incidents involving dive liveaboards in the Red Sea. Three liveaboards have been lost within t…