You start your Pemba Island diving safari from Shimoni, on Kenya's south coast.

Live-aboard M Y Kisiwani and Diving Pemba will take you on a week of exhilarating diving around Pemba - an island group to the north of Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Pemba Island is a mosaic of forests, swamps, mangroves and lagoons and is scattered with ruined mosques and tombs. Now reclaimed by the forest, these sites date back to the Arab conquest in the 10th century.

In the channels between the islands are submerged reefs, thickly crusted with a mixture of sponges, corals and seaweeds. In the water above, schools of manta rays feed on the rich supply of plankton.

Diving around Pemba Island typically takes place in any one of the narrow channels between islands where currents may drift you along at anything up to six knots.

Discover steep walls, gentle slopes, neudibranchs, mantas, hammerheads, sugar white beaches and M Y Kisiwani.

Pemba is famous for its superb night diving where a motley crew of nudibrachs, pleurobranchs, squid, mantis shrimps and other strange life-forms come out of hiding.

Pemba has more interesting, more varied and often more spectacular diving than anywhere in Kenya or Tanzania. Spectacular underwater sights, stunning blue-water drop-offs, awe-inspiring hard and soft coral gardens, magnificent scenery, a sparkling clear blue sea - everything combines to ensure the diving holiday of a lifetime.

We believe a destination is best experienced from a local's point of view.

If you are looking for diving with real imagination
Welcome to Pemba, Welcome on M Y Kisiwani.