yo this live stream i'm gonna be sharing with you what it's been like living on a live aboard
boat for the last two and a half weeks i've had the opportunity to fly drones and create
content with two amazing organizations one is one blue ocean as well as manta trust and so manta
trust goes after manta rays so that the marine biologists and researchers can learn more about
these amazing sea creatures so we've been cruising around the maldives for the last two and a half
weeks so i want to give you a little boat tour a lot of you have asked and i was like why not
so right now it is six a.m all deviant time and we normally every morning wake up and we capture the
sunrise and so this is kind of the first deck area um i'll show you the upstairs deck in a minute but
you can see that's pretty good light is coming in one thing you may not know is that the maldives
are made up of 26 different atolls but only 10 of them tourists can go to and so it's been cool
to be on a liveaboard because we can go out to places that we wouldn't otherwise be able to
get to very easily and we spend our days scouting by drone for manta rays and then we spend our day
also in the water diving and looking for them and so we have look at that beautiful sunrise so good
so we have the large boat where we stay and then this is our dive boat there are actually
three boats that kind of support us on this trip so let's go take a look at the dive boat
we've been really lucky because we oftentimes see a lot of dolphins out here which is pretty
amazing uh we always have to stop to watch the dolphin show sunrise show is always a good one too
but this is what you call a dhoni and a dhoni is the name of the boat and we have about 18 16-ish
people not including the staff on on this trip and so all of our dive here always stays on here and
i will be totally honest in that the conditions for dives uh hasn't been that great we've gotten
decent visibility not the most amazing but it's still so amazing to be in the water seeing so many
new things in this part of the world for example yesterday we were looking for a guitar fish
you should look that up it's pretty unique but we often times drone off the top of this
boat while we're scouting and then use it to uh get into our dive gear
in the back we have the small dinghy this often takes us out to like the little islands that are
out there forever like setting up a sunset uh sunset time lapse or things like that
this is where we have breakfast so breakfast happens here and then when you come inside uh
this is on the first level my room is here but my roommate is sleeping but inside we
have um oh actually so a lot of the rooms are downstairs so we have a lot of rooms downstairs
where people stay as well manta trust has their room with a lot of their research equipment
in here it's pretty cool to see what they use we got my favorite man right here who gives me coffee
forgot the bar that's important but this trip is something where a lot of people are getting work
done so this is our station you can see i've got my drones here we have all of our equipment this
is our work table this gentleman is about to launch drones this morning and this guy right
here is where the other team is setting up their stuff even more gear over here but it is almost
time to send drones let me take you upstairs really really fast the light is so perfect
and we oftentimes just hang our wet clothes here uh
i feel like i've been wet for two and a half weeks upstairs
one of the things i've been learning about manta rays
the second deck there is one more top of the boat you can see the light coming in hitting
that part of the water so pretty out here you can see the captain's section there's
two extra rooms on this side and sometimes we do go up to the top top but in the back there's
one more area that's a much larger space so it helps us to be able to launch drones
and then we have the kitchen they cook meals for us every day good morning in the chat they
cook meals for us every day this is a lead up to a lot of videos that i'm creating so
i just wanted to give you guys a preview of what it's like
you can see henthorne here is capturing this beautiful beautiful sunrise
i was trying to sit in this hammock earlier but actually
the seas were so rough yesterday that i was literally getting knocked knocked around
you have tense quarters more rooms and then this leads you back downstairs
and it's not that bad right now it's super flat and mellow but generally coming down
these stairs is pretty treacherous when it's really really rocky outside
and this leads us back to the work room and so stay tuned for more videos i'm super excited to
show you what we have found on this trip and i will see y'all in the next adventure ciao