Blackbeard's Cruises offers live-aboard scuba diving travel vacations to the Bahamas Out Islands. Three sailboats — Sea Explorer, Morning Star and Pirate's Lady — take guests for a week of diving on various itineraries in the Exumas, Southwest Eleuthera, Little San Salvador and Bimini.

Peter Hughes knows a thing or two about live-aboards, and he has a spot in the DEMA Hall of Fame to prove it. In 2011, Hughes received the DEMA Reaching Out Award for helping to evolve the live-aboard diving industry over the past three decades. That same year, after spending more than 25 years building his former live-aboard company, Peter Hughes Diving, Inc., the 40-year scuba diving veteran threw all of his expertise and energy into a new live-aboard venture, the DivEncounters Alliance

A trip aboard VIP One can turn any diver into a metalhead — with playful dolphins and scalloped hammerheads thrown in just for fun.

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Here are tips to make your live-aboard trip better -- from easier packing to protecting the host environment to making the best memories possible.

Want to dive the best of Raja Ampat in Indonesia? The live-aboard Arenui combines the luxury of near-constant personal attention with the romance of a wooden sailing ship as it gets you to all the best dive sites in Raja Ampat, Indonesia.

The luxurious Cuan Law delivers the best of British Virgin Islands' sunny reefs, hallowed wrecks and over-the-top island fun.

Another amazing destination is due to be added to the already impressive list of diving destinations that are visited by the Siren Fleet, this time it’s the must see destination of Fiji.

Want to experience the Bahamas Out Islands by liveaboard? Dive with sharks, then kick back aboard the Aqua Cat liveaboard in the Exumas and Eleuthera islands.