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That's absolutely amazing video!!! Loving it. You got lucky, too, with mantas. You spotted the black one, too... Great drone shots.

JT, Also, I forgot when are you going to Bali but this might look very enticing: Flight Deal: U.S. to Bali from $560 Round-Trip I know it's in off-season, you need to fly from January 'til May 2018... But what a deal!!! And it is with the Singapore Airlines, not some cheap no-name airline...

Hi JT & Amy, I usually use the Liberty Dive Resort shuttle from the airport. IIRC, it's something like $40 or $45 straight from the airport to LDR. You can probably get it cheaper, if you've been there before and know some drivers that you can call up. The uber and grab taxis are forbidden in...

JT and Amy, What billt4sf said is pretty much on the spot, Tulamben is my favorite Bali area: No current, warm water year round (3 mil suit is plenty), incredible biodiversity, you will be ID-ing so much fish and other reef creatures that your head will be spinning... GoPro helps... Plenty of...

Great shot Luko!!! Never got so close to mola:(

That's exactly where it was, at Manta Point.

I hope for #3, it usually ends up being #4.

Thanks for all the insider info, really appreciated, maybe next year...

Good to know about R4 going through Jakarta... I need to come back again in 2018. Since 2012, I've been here 3 times, I really need to pick up my pace to catch you up :D

That's what I ended up with a couple years ago when looking for a place to spend a week and dive on a budget. Loved it and can't wait to go back in Feb 2018... My problem is though that I got spoiled by diving in Indonesia and prefer to stay away from quick weekend and weekly trips to Coz, save...

^^^ Same. That's what I use but there is nothing wrong with most of the ones you have on your list.

LOL on the 'human powered' DPV comment... I should look it up if PADI or SSI offers a cert. card for it...

Yep, unfortunately, I've seen it in Thailand and Indonesia on my dives. Luckily, I never dived with a diving outfit that would accept absolute beginners like this AND take them to more advanced dive sites. If that happened I'd find a different shop to dive with.

Thank you all for your constructive comments, esp. from the folks who are diving professionals as they have probably seen situations like this first hand, esp. here in Asia. I really appreciate it. So my takeaway is this: When I got OW certified seven years ago in Thailand, I didn't have pool...

Fixed, sorry.

Sorry, fixed the album... Was marked private by mistake. My bad:( In the pictures they were at their safety stop, so around 15 feet... I've seen them both together, DM holding his client like that, during my dive a couple times, they couldn't have been deeper than 40 feet, at most.

It didn't really looked like he was having a problem. I saw them a couple times and the DM was always holding him by his tank. At one point the client was taking a gopro video of a passing by manta ray, so I deduced that's how they dived this dive, in a 'tandem'... I can only guess/speculate...

The deepest sandy parts were about 70-80 feet tops, the most folks stayed over the reef which is around 40-50 feet deep and around cleaning stations it could be as shallow as 15-25 feet.

Maybe guiding safely... by richdrogpa posted Aug 28, 2017 at 8:59 AM Guiding safely... by richdrogpa posted Aug 28, 2017 at 8:59 AM So, I've seen it before around popular warm water dive spots in Southeast Asia, but today it was just ridiculous... I took these pics while on my safety stop...

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