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Getting tired of your “contributions”. Not at all helpful!

I look forward to seeing Mantas when I visit you next November!

If you can back kick in them you will be fine. I use an older full foot version of the Mares Quatro for muck diving. Muck diving requires that you be able to get your face very close to the bottom to have a look at small and strange creatures and then back away without stirring up the...

Red Sea would be my next choice after Caribbean diving. Easy diving, significant upgrade in terms of things to see, easy to get to from the east coast of North America, and they have inexpensive liveaboards. Philippines after that. Another upgrade in things to see, relatively easy to get to...

Just a reminder that Jakarta rush hour traffic is not to be trifled with. Travelled from the Airport to FM7 during rush hour one trip and it took more than an hour - to get to a hotel that is a stones throw from the end of one of the runways. The return trip in the middle of the night was less...

Did you miss the OP's question??? "Are there any tricks or tips to overcome this naturally?" I think he was asking for "all these home remedies". Some people do not do drugs well. I personally hate what most of the seasickness drugs do to me so I avoid them if at all possible and have been...

Everyone is different. For me does not matter what I have had to eat or drink. Stay centre of mass of the boat, standing up eyes focused outside of the boat on the horizon if at all possible. If I am driving the boat I almost never get seasick! You want to keep what your eyes see and what...

Yes, did a couple of dives there a very long time ago. Was memorable as one of the worst dives I have ever done. Vis was less than 3 feet and nothing to see. I do recall someone suggesting that there was better diving further out off one of the islands off shore, but never did bother diving...

Just to be clear Alami does exactly the same number of wide angle dives in the straight as Alor Divers. Typically they go out to the same dive sites as AD in the AM for two dives. I saw the other resort's boats pretty regularly - not at the same site, just in passing. The resorts are pretty...

Belize would be my choice for a first liveaboard. The Red Sea is a good choice from your location. A bit of a flight, but the diving is IMHO better than any Caribbean diving. Philippines is a bit of a flight from your side of the continent but the diving is excellent and lots of dive resorts...

As stated Alor Divers do two dives a day in the main straight and you can dive on their house reef for a third dive of the day. The house reef is a quality dive. At times the current rips by. They do one trip a week into the bay for muck diving (more if enough people request it) Not sure how...

Thanks for the confirmation, I thought it was significantly more but was not sure. Wherever possible I pay in advance just to avoid the second counter and the wait. I am currently booking a trip to Alor and can't seem to find a way to pay the Wings Air baggage charge in advance leaving Alor...

Depends on how you bought your tickets. If through a travel agent they can add the charge, just tell them how many kilos over 20 you want to purchase. If you purchased from Lion Air directly you can add the baggage to the ticket on their web site. I typically use Nusa Trip and you can add the...

If possible prepay for the additional weight over 20kg. If you do that check in is normally pretty simple.

That’s your takeaway from my post???? That Batik, Lion and Wings are the same ownership group so must have the same maintenance and on time record. It seems that you missed the actual point - that as you go down the list of budget carriers there is a very real difference in on time and...

... and out of 40 or so flights within Indo I have had one delayed by 10 hours, one cancelled completely and rebooked to leave one city before I arrived on a flight from another (instead of a single 6 hour trip it took two days and two hotel stays to get where I was going) and a third cancelled...

I have also used deep sea net floats, available at any place that supplies commercial fishers. Cut them in half put them on the arm and use plumbing glue to glue them back together. No idea what the materiel is but I had a couple hundred dives on two float arms set up that way. Here is an...

I am assuming you are diving before the liveaboard so you have two options. Stay the night at NAD and get transport early in the AM or leave NAD in the afternoon the day before and overnight in Manado. Both work. As you won't be diving in the afternoon before the flight no real need to stay...

Arenui, Dewi Nusentera, Damai, Samambia would be my top choices. Not in any particular order. Samanbia is the newest boat in this list if that matters to you.

I have seen them in South Komodo, but that was also unexpected. We were at that location to see Manta. My understanding is that it was unexpected but not rare, while in RA it is extremely rare. I have also seen one in Alor and this was reasonably common, but you will not see Mantas or...