For many, a dive trip to the Great Barrier Reef is a once in a lifetime experience. If you have the time and the budget, Cairns liveaboard diving trips are highly recommended. The benefits of booking a liveaboard dive trip versus a day trip include:

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  Enjoy sunrise over the Great Barrier Reef

  More dives on the Great Barrier Reef

• Explore a range of different Great Barrier Reef dive sites
• Night dive the reef: see sleeping turtles, hunting fish, crabs, lobsters & moral eels
• Enjoy sunrise and sunset over the Coral Sea
• Cheaper than booking a series of day tours
• Less travel time, more time on the reef

Cairns Liveaboard Diving Options

There are several Outer Great Barrier Reef liveaboard dive tours departing Cairns daily. Their destinations, boats, trip duration and prices all vary, allowing you to tailor your liveaboard dive trip to suit your itinerary and diving abilities. It is best to review what is on offer, before making your final decision.

Liveaboard diving with Pro Dive Cairns

Please note: All Cairns Outer Great Barrier Reef liveaboard dive tours are suitable for novice and experienced divers with Open Water certification or higher. The water conditions are excellent and your host boat will move around the reef, allowing you to enjoy dives on different reef sites and locations.

Outer Great Barrier Reef liveaboard tours depart Cairns daily and vary from 1 to 2 nights, including up to 10 certified scuba dives and a night dive. Standard inclusions are transfers, accommodation, meals, tea and coffee and dive equipment. Alcohol is not included.

Each Outer Great Barrier Reef site offers divers something different and can include coral towers, bombies and caves, drop-offs and walls where large schools of sweetlips, barracuda, fusiliers, snapper and bass may be seen. Reef sites feature hard and soft corals, anemone, clams, urchins, feather and sea stars and much, much more.

Check out our video on what you might see with Cairns Liveaboard Diving!

For basic comparison, we have prepared the below pricing table. Please note: the Cairns Liveaboard Diving prices do not include port taxes, which are payable direct to the operator on the day of travel.

Cairns Liveaboard Diving – Outer Great Barrier Reef: Price Comparison Table