Putri Pupua liveaboard dive boat

We spent 12 days aboard the Putri Pupua last fall, sailing to the Wakatobi Islands from Maumere in Flores, Indonesia. It's a nice dive boat, Indonesian owned & operated, and the trip was great. The seas were mostly calm, the diving amazing (day and night), the boat sturdy, the cabin comfortable. Not luxurious...but comfortable.
Diving is the closest most of us will ever get to being astronauts--only we actually get to go to alien worlds. And best of those alien worlds are in the Philippines/Indonesia/New Guinea triangle, with the greatest diversity of wildlife of any habitat on Earth. That's why we travel halfway around the world to go there. And we've found a dive operator--Grand Komodo--who we trust, which is important when you're as far off the beaten track as we were. Highly recommended. About 80% of the dive sites were snorkel-able BTW. Bring a camera and a laptop or a portable hard drive image bank (we use the Transcend Digital Album 20GB) or you'll kick yourself later.