Divers usually accept a trade: hard-core dive boats skimp on comfort, comfortable boats treat diving as an afterthought. The newest arrival in the Komodo fleet is built to refuse that trade.
LASHA, a 2023-launched phinisi starting public sailings on 17 August 2026, pairs a dedicated dive deck on the main deck with the kind of topside comfort normally reserved for pure leisure charters — including something we have not seen elsewhere in the park: a liveaboard with jacuzzi suite — an in-suite bathtub with ocean windows in each of the two Master Suites, plus an open-air jacuzzi on the sun deck.
The diving programme prices at $750–800 per guest per night depending on the route band (roughly $50 over the leisure rate), on a full-charter model with a 14-guest minimum — which suits dive clubs and buddy groups that want the whole boat and their own schedule at Karang Makassar, Batu Bolong and the southern sites. Ten ensuite cabins sleep up to 26, so non-diving partners travel comfortably on the same trip: snorkelling the manta drift while the certified group goes deep.
Safety inventory reads properly for a 466-ton hull: two lifeboats, four 20-person liferafts, EPIRB, AIS and 54-channel CCTV. For established dive-first alternatives and site-by-site season notes, our Komodo liveaboard guides remain the reference.