Thirty five charter yachts carry both an on-deck pool and dedicated diving equipment, and the fleet stretches from the twenty seven metre Icarus to the one hundred and nineteen metre Breakthrough. What connects them is a commitment to water at both ends of the scale: the pool for the hours at anchor, the dive gear for the hours beneath the surface.
The range is wide. Icarus is a compact yacht for six guests, suited to small groups who want to dive affordably. In the forty seven to fifty five metre band, King Benji, Para Bellvm, Asani, Nomad and Geco carry ten to twelve guests in five or six cabins, with pools aft and dive lockers maintained by qualified crew. O’Ptasia, Sunrays, O’Pari, Lady S and Sophia range from eighty five to ninety seven metres, where the pool approaches swimming length and the dive operation runs at a near-commercial standard.
Weekly rates open at forty one thousand euros for Icarus and climb to three million five hundred thousand for Breakthrough. The core of the fleet charters between two hundred and forty thousand and nine hundred thousand, with the median around six hundred and eighty thousand. Add roughly thirty percent for the advance provisioning allowance, which on a dive charter includes tank fills, compressor fuel and nitrox mixes.
The Mediterranean dominates the summer calendar, with Greece, Croatia, Sardinia and the Balearics well represented. From November, much of the fleet crosses to the Caribbean, where wall dives, reef systems and clear water run through the winter.
