Dive op recommendation for Lembongan?

[billt4sf]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a dive op or accommodation on Lembongan? We would like to see MolaMola, but we want a dive op that will not push us into high current dives -- so someone that has been there a while.

Lembongan seems more convenient to Nusa Penida than Padang Bai -- though we will be there as well.

We're looking to go mid-August.

Thanks,

Bill & Emily

 

[gekodivebali]

Most sites where you can see sunfish are subjected to currents. May be the easiest sites to see molas are what I call Nusa Penida Drift Sites at the North end of the island. These include locations like PED, Sental, Buyuk and SD. The great thing is that these sites are not usually overcrowded.
With other sites like Crystal Bay, Toyapakeh or Gili Selang, Gili Biaha, Gili Tepekong & Gili Mimpang, you may have little to no current once or twice a day at slack high tide. This may not even occur during dive-able hours. Tide charts are also not available or of poor quality for this area so you cannot rely on anything but the experience of a reputable dive guide / operator.

 

[billt4sf]

Most sites where you can see sunfish are subjected to currents. May be the easiest sites to see molas are what I call Nusa Penida Drift Sites at the North end of the island. These include locations like PED, Sental, Buyuk and SD. The great thing is that these sites are not usually overcrowded.
With other sites like Crystal Bay, Toyapakeh or Gili Selang, Gili Biaha, Gili Tepekong & Gili Mimpang, you may have little to no current once or twice a day at slack high tide. This may not even occur during dive-able hours. Tide charts are also not available or of poor quality for this area so you cannot rely on anything but the experience of a reputable dive guide / operator.

Cedric / James I've sent you a couple emails.

- Bill & Emily

 

[KenGordon]

I recently dived with Two Fish there. They were fine, they have a couple of boats and so were putting people on a host to an appropriate site for their skills or requirements. Nobody was pushed into diving in conditions they didn't like as far as I could tell.

The day we did Crystal Bay I wasn't feeling up to a load of hard finning, I let the guide know and we agreed to turn the dive before we got out as far as the hard current. This left us plenty of gas to bimble about in shallow, still water inside the bay.

I don't think the concept of slack water has hit these holiday destinations. They have a timetable of breakfast, getting out and back, lunch, and either out some more or going home, drinking or whatever. The tide isn't a major consideration for that timetable. Maybe it makes a difference to which sites are done when.

Most of the dives didn't require too much hard work.

 

[Bali-Freak]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a dive op or accommodation on Lembongan?

World Diving Lembongan are a quality operator diving from Lembongan.