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So I spent a month diving in Komodo in December, specifically with Scuba Junkie to obtain my divemaster cert. To sum it up, it's easily the best diving I've ever done in my life. I haven't been all around the world, but have been to enough places to know that this is something special.
For manta lovers, I don't know if there's a better place in the world to see Mantas than Komodo during the wet season. yes, the wet season is where mantas come out in full force. We saw so many mantas here that it wouldn't be a question of if, but one of how many today? One dive in particular, we saw 150 or so, and numerous others where we saw over 50. I'd only seen mantas once before and it was just two at a time. Komodo is special because not only can you see so many at once, but mantas are naturally curious of divers and they will try interacting with you, even if you are sitting still.
The corals and underwater landscape is so colorful, healthy and pristine. This is what I thoguht diving would be like when I first started, but the coral in the caribbean has mostly died and/or been bleached and I just thought perhaps the video cameras those nat Geo guys use are just crazy good. I had just been to Sipadan right before Komodo, and while the school of jackfish there is amazing, Komodo's landscape is overall more beautiful and pristine. Plus, you can dive Komodo every day whereas Sipadan is a once every 4 day dive site.
Also, diving from land is significantly cheaper than a liveaboard but staying at Scuba Junkie's resort was almost like a liveaboard because it was far away from the shtshow of Labuan Bajo (place is awful) in its own little island. We would routinely see liveaboard boats every day on our dives. The only benefit to liveaboards is they can go to some sites further out that can't be reached in one day from land, but that's not a guarunteed thing.
So anyway, I've written about the diving with many many videos and pics. I'm a huge fan of Komodo, and I think people should try and see that part of the world before it suffers the same fate as the caribbean!
Becoming A Divemaster In Paradise: Diving in Komodo, Indonesia - Johnny Africa
For manta lovers, I don't know if there's a better place in the world to see Mantas than Komodo during the wet season. yes, the wet season is where mantas come out in full force. We saw so many mantas here that it wouldn't be a question of if, but one of how many today? One dive in particular, we saw 150 or so, and numerous others where we saw over 50. I'd only seen mantas once before and it was just two at a time. Komodo is special because not only can you see so many at once, but mantas are naturally curious of divers and they will try interacting with you, even if you are sitting still.
The corals and underwater landscape is so colorful, healthy and pristine. This is what I thoguht diving would be like when I first started, but the coral in the caribbean has mostly died and/or been bleached and I just thought perhaps the video cameras those nat Geo guys use are just crazy good. I had just been to Sipadan right before Komodo, and while the school of jackfish there is amazing, Komodo's landscape is overall more beautiful and pristine. Plus, you can dive Komodo every day whereas Sipadan is a once every 4 day dive site.
Also, diving from land is significantly cheaper than a liveaboard but staying at Scuba Junkie's resort was almost like a liveaboard because it was far away from the shtshow of Labuan Bajo (place is awful) in its own little island. We would routinely see liveaboard boats every day on our dives. The only benefit to liveaboards is they can go to some sites further out that can't be reached in one day from land, but that's not a guarunteed thing.
So anyway, I've written about the diving with many many videos and pics. I'm a huge fan of Komodo, and I think people should try and see that part of the world before it suffers the same fate as the caribbean!
Becoming A Divemaster In Paradise: Diving in Komodo, Indonesia - Johnny Africa