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Yes, the Blue Manta has a flat hull and uses almost twice the amount of fuel compared to the White Manta which has a rounded hull.

Agree wooden boats may be quieter with regards to engine noise but there a constant creaking from the wood when the boat rocks even when its anchored.

The Blue Manta and White Manta have different hull designs. The White Manta is more streamlined and therefore uses less fuel, hence the cheaper price of trips. The down side is it rolls more in heavy seas compared to the Blue Manta which is much more stable.

I recently did an Alor to Ambon on the Blue Manta in September. If you're keen on seeing large schools of hammerheads, the best time would be September to October.

I've dove at Kavieng, PNG twice via liveaboard and its quite mind blowing as well.

Yes we had great sightings last month at 2 different sites.

September is even better for hammerheads as the thermocline is shallow. Just make sure you're on a Big steel boat and not a wooden one. Waves can be nasty due to the winds. Been on 3 Banda sea trips so far for hammers.

I would recommend the Banda Sea (Sep-Nov) or Halmehera particularly the straits between Bacan island and halmahera mainland.

If you're into wrecks there is great wreck diving off colombo. I used Island scuba.

Thank you very Much Searcaigh! It it greatly appreciated. Cheers!

Hi Searcaigh, could you please check with her if she is ok to share her contact with me? Thank you. I'm looking to visit in early december.

It seems like Villa Alba only has a FB page but no website. How do you guys book with them? Thank you!

Jakarta airport arrival section has free wifi so you can fill in the form with your mobile while waiting for luggage.

Tell your kids the wifi router is joining both of you in indonesia on holiday. That may change their minds! lol!

Haha! Never knew diving has become so complicated. All I have done over the years when diving on LOB is make sure I have above 200 bar at the start of the dive, do the dive, send up a SMB during safety stop and wait for boat to pick me up.

I just checked my other computer which is an Aladin 2G, it does not show average depth as well. To be honest, until this thread, I never really considered about average depth all these years. As far as I know, the dive comps I used showed max depth and bottom time. Just for interest, what does...

No just checked. Only shows max depth not average depth.

Hi Scubadada, Most dives were around 40-50mins. I was using a 15 litre tank. Not sure about the average depth, not sure of how calculate it. Usually, the 1st two dives of the day were channel dives or blue water dives. For channel dives it usually means descending to 30+m and hooking on to the...

When starting dives, I double clicked the orange button at the side once I start decending. The watch ends the dive around 0.6 to 0.9m.