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Whether your choice of water activity is snorkelling, diving, underwater scooters or even travelling into the depths by personal submarine, a superyacht holiday allows you to delve into the magical world of underwater exploration.
Would you prefer to stay on the surface, battling leviathans of the deep with your fishing gear? A superyacht is also a dream vacation for fishing, whether you’re casting a line from the aft deck on a balmy afternoon, or roaring after Marlin in the yacht’s sportfisher chase boat.
If you love water activities, your charter broker and yacht captain will pull all the stops out creating an itinerary that will push the boundaries of what you thought possible — seeing whale sharks or manta rays, and swimming through caves like cathedrals. Diving Pacific lagoons filled with downed WWII planes, and shipwrecks with cannons still strapped to their decks.
Escaping the crowds to find your own dive and fishing spots, and snorkelling off deserted atolls where sugar-white sands and coconut palms wait only 10 metres from the reef. Casting a line line in pristine fishing grounds you have to yourself, and barrelling down epic surf breaks seemingly on the edge of the world.
So, where to find these wonders?
While all superyacht destinations will wow with their water activities, there are a few destinations that will always dazzle.
The ‘waterworlds’ we often recommend to our charter clients looking to push the boundaries are often remote archipelagos in tropical lands. The Maldives, diving their exquisite reefs exploding with life, French Polynesia, snorkelling turquoise lagoons under volcanoes. Raja Ampat, floating through jungled, emerald outcrops in a sapphire sea. Or exploring the watery treasures of Micronesia— discovering empty lagoons and beach breaks, WWII graveyards in Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon.
But you don’t have to go to the ends of the earth to find underwater paradise. Places like the Bahamas remain a standout for all water activities, including epic fishing across shallows, reefs and deep sea. In Europe, Sicily has some excellent diving, with underwater worlds forged by volcanoes and impressive shipwrecks.
Talk to your charter broker. Tell them what you love doing. What gives you a thrill up your spine and makes you feel alive. They will give you recommendations of destinations, as well as the best yachts to fit your requirements. Maybe you’ll want a yacht with a sportfisher chase boat? Maybe a dive room is a must-have? Maybe you want a crew that is mad-keen on watersports, and have fishing experts in their ranks. Whatever you are seeking, we will find.
This year, jump in. Feel the splash. Feel the smile — the exhilaration — spread across your face as you dive off the yacht’s swim platform. Admire your superyacht looming above the waterline, then sink under the water, where the hull sits dark and huge under the surface and the anchor chain stretches out into the blue. Dive down, to where a world of corals and shipwrecks and sharks awaits. Or snorkel on the surface on shallow reefs, lost in meditative wonder. Tear above the seabed on a Seabob, above white sand glimmering with refracted light, or take a seat in a personal submarine, and cast off into the deep. Hoot with joy as you feel a yellowfin snag your line, allowing its strong, powerful body to lead you on a dance as you reel it in. And then end the day on the sundeck at sunset, watching as the yacht chef grills up your catch on the barbeque.
Every day on a superyacht promises untold wonders.
Jo Morgan
