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Thanks! Just stay vertical with your head on a swivel and ready to slap the shark on the nose with your GoPro. For those Tiger Sharks I did push their snouts (tonic immobility spots, top of their noses) gently to divert their mouths away from me.

If PADI, they can verify it directly online.

Speaking of Oceanic Whitetip, here’s my experience with them in Elphinstone:

Right. I was supposed to be in Galapagos last December. I rescheduled it to November 2026 because of the Avian flu. I went to Maldives in last December, instead.

Wow. I haven’t heard such charging problem. You may want to talk to Richard at Dive-Tronix.

In November with Pindito.

Yep, same here, no more manta in Sangalaki when I was there in August 2022. However, the schooling of Barracuda in Maratua was incredible. And Whaleshark in Tali Sayang, Of course you don’t want to miss the jellyfish lake of Kakaban.

The humidity, where you open the case, affect the level of fogging you are going to get. AC room has lower humidity. If there is no AC room, find a shaded area away from any sources of humidity, like bathroom, dining room, etc. If the case doesn’t have vacuum port to pull the humid air out of...

TWELVE MOLA MOLA holly cow! That would make my day!

Very expensive park fee. I paid $450 the last time I was there in September 2022. I paid 10% tip.

I got tattooed on my knee by those pesky Urchins. So you’ll get poked your drysuit by them if you hover too closely to or sitting on or leaning on the rock formation while watching the fish, like Tiger sharks, which would make you forget about the surrounding as you pay full attention to that...

Since you mentioned about going to Banda Sea in DM, that whale migration would also continue to Banda Sea. So if you miss it in Alor, you have your 2nd chance to sea it in Banda Sea. I saw them in 2022, including free diving with Pilot whales & Sperm whales, as shown in this video:

I have been to Cocos 3 times. Twice in September on Argo and once in December on Okeanos Aggressor I, Trip Report - Diving in Cocos Dec. 2020 Trip Report Water temperature wise they are pretty consistent around 69-79F (21-26C) as you see in Table 1 of my trip report, above. I wore 5mm full...

@Luko & @outofofficebrb may have some tips about Alor. My first time in Alor was in September 2012, staying in Alor Divers. We were greeted by huge pod of dolphins on the way to the resorts.

Teric has been good to me. In 3 years, over 600 dives logged in, I had only 2 problems. First was the depth sensor caput. Second was the broken antenna. So, I don’t want to waste money and learning new dive computer unnecessarily for a non emergency thing that I can do without and statistically...

Batik Air, Lion Air, Wing Air are parts of Lion Group. Lion Air - Wikipedia So I’m not quite sure why Batik Air, which is supposedly Lion Group higher class airline fleet than the Lion Air and Wing Air, would have less reliable record? Any data to support that?

Try this: 1. Take both your D5 & Shearwater (at the same conservatism setting you had before) to a light DECO dive # 1 (light DECO means you pass 1 or 2 minutes of DECO and that DECO disappears as you ascend slowly to the shallow), 2 Do a short surface interval, say for 45 minutes. 3. Go another...

Garuda & Batik. I avoid Batik if I can get Garuda because Batik is operating at Terminal 2. So you need to take taxi from T3 to T2, unless you want to use the Sky train from T3 to T2 before they stop operation at 9pm. Garuda also give you extra 23kg for checkin dive bag

Missing a dive or two out of 25-35 dives in a trip is no big loss for me. Locking out my super conservative Suunto D4 while diving with my Teric is more of my concern. If I take my D4 with me, I end up using D4 dive profile, staying shallow to keep it from locking out, while my dive buddies...

I monitor my residual nitrogen. If I break the Teric in the morning, I may skip the rest of the dive on that day and start my next day dive with my Suunto D4. Based on the previous nitrogen residual record after 12-18 hours of surface interval, my residual nitrogen almost down to zero, like...