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June Hong Chian Lee (better known as The Junk)

Siren Fleet's Liveaboard

Step aboard The Junk and spend your liveaboard diving holiday with us to the most fantastic diving sites around Timor Leste and we'll give you your best liveaboard diving vacation ever!

Boat Specifications

Length:	33 meters
Beam:	8.50 meters
Speed:	8 knots Motor Sailing
	1 Main Engine 380 Hp
	2 generators 50 kW each
Tenders:	1 tender 40 hp 4.20 meters
	1 tender 60 hp 5.80 meters
Compressors:	2 Bauer
Scuba Tanks:	40
Electronic:	Satellite Navigation System
	3 VHF Radios
	2 CB Radios
	Video Depth Sounder
Water-maker:	(6.000 l/p.day)
Range:	10.000 liters of diesel  (range unlimited as long as there is wind)
Safety:	Patient area with 2 large oxygen tanks
	40 life jackets
	Life raft for 25 people
Surface:	2 recreational areas totaling 150 square meters
Capacity:	18 passengers, crew of 10
	6 cabins, 8 hot water showers with toilet

Liveaboard diving trips to Timor-Leste

Liveaboard diving in Timor-Leste can now be explored in full with the Siren Fleet. Venture to this remote island southeast of Indonesia, for some world class diving on our 10-night Timor dive discovery. Bounded by the Timor and Banda Seas, Timor-Leste offers divers many different sites with diverse topography and a fantastic array of marine life. You can expect all the wonderful creatures and colourful corals that would be found in Indonesian waters, yet this area is little explored and many new dive sites are ready to be discovered. Pristine corals, sandy muck diving slopes and off shore pinnacles await the adventurous diver.

Siren Fleet offers 10 night liveaboard cruises between August and November. Join Siren Fleet from Dili to Atauro Island onto Jako Island and along the northern coast before the return to Dili. The wondrous seacow - Dugong- can be sighted along the northern coast, the steep walls of Atauro Island bring sharks and rays, Jako Island is a rush of currents, and the sheltered bays provide havens for many tiny species from seahorses and octopus to frogfish and rhinopi.

Timor-Leste Diving Itinerary

Typically diving in Timor-Leste has been made from the shore, with divers hopping in at many spots along the northern coast. Now the Siren Fleet will enable divers to enjoy both the fringing reefs and off shore islands. Siren Fleet liveaboards will explore new sites in the region as there are many off shore pinnacles yet to be charted. Departing from Dili we begin along the north shore and some fantastic macro sites, before moving to pinnacles within the strait and northwards to Artauro Island for some drift dives and dramatic reef scenery. The liveaboard yacht will then venture eastward to Jako Island, where currents bring nutrients and hungry sharks & rays. The diving safari ends with more sites being explored along the northern coast before disembarkation at Dili on day 11.

Departs	Returns
01 Aug 2012	11 Aug 2012
12 Aug 2012	22 Aug 2012
23 Aug 2012	02 Sep 2012
03 Sep 2012	13 Sep 2012
14 Sep 2012	24 Sep 2012
25 Sep 2012	05 Oct 2012
06 Oct 2012	16 Oct 2012
17 Oct 2012	27 Oct 2012

Weather and Water Temperature

Timor-Leste is a tropical country and the weather is fairly even all year round, being typically hot and humid in lower regions with more moderate temperatures in the mountains. November to May is considered the "wet season" and travelers can expect heavy tropical rains, with temperatures reaching 30 °C (87°F). The "dry season" runs from June to October and sees temperatures rising to a high of 34°C (92°F), peaking in November just before the heavy rains begin. Water temperatures are broadly similar throughout the region; ranging from 26-29°C (79-85°F). A 3mm wetsuit is suitable for these conditions and available for rental, free of charge, whilst onboard. However we advise those guests who feel the cold, particularly after prolonged exposure, to bring their own 5mm full suit and or hooded vest or thermal protection. The sun can be particularly strong, as such, we advise guests to bring a long sleeve UV shirt and to wear sunscreen if using a shorty.

Diving Highlights of Timor Leste:

The Church

On the Northwest coast of Atauro Island the steep walls rise up from depths of 50m+. Covered with hard and soft corals this site attracts passing pelagics such as tuna, barracuda and swordfish and barracuda and some reef sharks ad hawksbll turtles. A closer look at the wall reveals a startling diversity of crustaceans and molluscs.

Tasi Tolu

The sandy slope gradually descending to 30m is the place to scour the sand in search of amazing and interesting creatures. If thorny seahorses, rhinopias, mimic octopus, pipefish, frog fish and a range of nudibranchs are not enough to hold your interest then you can turn your attention to the grazing dugongs or hunting seasnakes.

Jako Island

Off the eastern tip of Timor island lies the small island of Jako. Currents pass through bringing nutrients that support the life of some large marine animals. Expect to see mobula rays, grey and white tip reef sharks and schooling trevally and snappers.

K41

On the northern coast to the east of Dili, the coral garden of K41 attracts schools of midnight snappers, huge batfish and yellow-fin bass. Dolphins are heard and occasionally seen during the dives and whale sharks often make an appearance. hiding underneath the coral bommies whiptail rays can be found, whilst the shallow waters are the place to hunt for ghost pipefish and sawblade shrimps.