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If you succumb to the hype of warnings etc then you have subscribed and played right into what the terrorists want in the first place..

Great report as always Al ..btw Tulamben has a decent mart with lots of provisions next to Wayan's resto down the road from SS. I still remember the amazing babi guling we preordered..!! Still cant believe your in Sing but not hopped to Bali..next you'll be hanging with the Molas..;)

Lovely photos my friend....getting better and better... so you didnt get lucky with rhinopia in ambon but finally see in padang bai?

Hi all its been awhile for me out of the water but thought Id throw a line of positive feedback if jt17 is Leeza I got an email recently about this and having dived with her as a cruise director on one of my Komodo trips. I havent been to Triton bay, have heard a lot about it and previous unrest...

I agree with Chilly. And my point is made in context that irrespective of the sentence whether 3 years or10 years what has really happened to ensure such an incident wont occur again..

Why cant the industry move forward a make captains have a license that has them signing off on role and responsibilities. Then again this is Indonesia and common sense doesnt always apply. Until someone else gets hurt and another captain is jailed.

Gbr and Osprey seemed devoid of many fish at all when I did a week... except for cod hole. Thats a lovely site. Since then I only dive mainly in Indonesia... for better fish school activity and macro diversity. Bali has excellent macro..

My research has shown that the rate of attacks in Queensland increased after their drum lining /bait programs in 50s. Whether this is causal or correlational would remain to be seen. But one things for sure that they have had more shark deaths than WA without a program. Now my theory was that...

What an EPIC fail of a ridiculous poll/thread ... Monty Python is going to make a comeback with their take on Jaws next.. with complete direction from Shark Cull 'Experts'... :lol:

If a shark.was involved in this latest death it will demonstrate the ineffectiveness and futility of this cull program. If a shark wasnt involved in this death and was post mortem the data below will still highlight further the ineffectiveness of this program as evidenced in this Fisheries...

My second home...but im now homesick! Nice photos too..

Gosh John C Ratliff did you have to quote such a long post by Iya? Any news of any findings or has the search been calked off. Either Shoko has passed on now or will there be some castaway story brewing? Is it possible shes drifted to an uninhabitedisland.

@revsippy just search through the threads for lembeh recommendations, I thin Lembeh is one of those places where almost all the Ops have a good reputation everything from budget to luxury. But thats Off topic...

Hey Don, if anything one can learn here is that no matter what fins you have if you are swept out to sea in Indo and the current eddys and swell are ominous on that day then only a quick thinking boatman will save you. Perhaps having a SMB will increase your chances... along with a PLB. If you...

...And insensitive given someone had died, a group had gone through near death trauma due to a boat not being present at the dive exit... and the petty discussion of fin type needs to be brought up ? The testament that 5 survived and lived to tell a tale, that they DID get to land, then to find...

...And insensitive given someone had died, a group had gone through near death trauma due to a boat not being present at the dive exit... and the petty discussion of fin type needs to be brought up ? The testament that 5 survived and lived to tell a tale, that they DID get to land, then to find...

I dont think given the chain of events that any type of fin would have made a difference to the survival potential of the group. Unless you have dived the area extensively and experienced surface current and swell conditions in the area then please refrain from such speculation. Ive dived...

Please can you point out which assumptions were wrong, for those of us not versed in.japanese. So we can learn by it. Most of our information have been from media or even first hand accounts ie putu

Not quite, the dive started in Mangroves, the island of Lembogan. Its a fairly straightforward drift dive but can have a surface current which can take you out to sea. Manta point, where the cliffs are ..is quite a way out, on the neighbouring island Nusa Penida where they drifted in open sea to.

Its not quite a happy ending when any one of our fellow divers die.. regardless of the circumstances