Diving in Amed?

[billt4sf]

Are we making plans to go diving in Amed? I have little experience with these matters, in San Francisco we live in an earthquake zone but not a volcano zone.

Seems that Agung has been rumbling quite a bit for several weeks, there are hundreds of earthquakes a day and some have been felt.

 

[Dan]

I'll be in Bali in early December. We plan to skip diving in Amed, Kubu, even Tulamben. We'll go to Nusa Penida to check out how Darth Vader is doing.

 

[charlier]

Hi Bill, will report more soon.

 

[billt4sf]

I'll be in Bali in early December. We plan to skip diving in Amed, Kubu, even Tulamben. We'll go to Nusa Penida to check out how Darth Vader is doing.

Darth Vader -- Cedric?

 

[Dan]

Darth Vader

Check out @kuris cool video in this thread: 2017 Mola Spotting in Bali. Darth Vader seems to have grown up a bit. It was just a teenager 5 years ago I last saw it.

 

[Dan]

Just got an update from Bli Today (my dive guide in Bali from aqua cat bali, the best travel to scuba diving / dive / diving in Bali, Indonesia) about Mount Agung. He just came back from diving in Padangbai. He said it starts to emit a bit of smoke & made a weak tremor every now & then, not much to be concerned of at this moment.

For people who live in Ring of Fire Islands like Bali, this is regular scene. I hiked down to Lake Kintamani & up to Mount Batur back in 1994 to see a close up of the smoke & shooting lava. We started hiking at 5AM. Each of us brought a couple of raw eggs in a grocery bag, salt & peppers in small ziplock bags, 2 slices of bread & a litter water bottle for breakfast. By the time we reached the summit it was about 9AM. We put the raw egg bag in a sulfury steaming walls, scatter around the summit to boil the eggs. 5 minutes later we have egg sandwiches for breakfast We watched the shooting red lava from a half kilometer distance while having breakfast. Then we hiked back to the main road where the restaurant & tourists hang out by noon.

 

[charlier]

As most know by now, Agung volcano in Bali has been showing elevated volcanic seismicity over the past six weeks. Mt. Agung last erupted in 1963, resulting in the deaths of over 1,100 people. The current unrest of Agung is being closely monitored by CVGHM and has raised the alert to a maximum level four. The National Disaster Mitigation Agency has started to evacuate nearby residents.

I will be traveling via Jakarta for my September and October trips to eastern Indonesia and avoid Denpasar, at least for now. The substantial increase of seismicity under Agung is not trivial.

Here is a link to a blog from the Earth Observatory of Singapore, NTU - Unrest at Agung Volcano, Bali

Edit: Dan: I re-copied the link

 

[Dan]

As most know by now, Agung volcano in Bali has been showing elevated volcanic seismicity over the past six weeks. Mt. Agung last erupted in 1963, resulting in the deaths of over 1,100 people. The current unrest of Agung is being closely monitored by CVGHM and has raised the alert to a maximum level four. The National Disaster Mitigation Agency has started to evacuate nearby residents.

I will be traveling via Jakarta for my September and October trips to eastern Indonesia and avoid Denpasar, at least for now. The substantial increase of seismicity under Agung is not trivial.

Here is a link to a blog from the Earth Observatory of Singapore, NTU - http://www.earthobservatory.sg/ne…/unrest-agung-volcano-bali

Thanks for the link, but

 

[tursiops]

Unrest at Agung Volcano, Bali

I have a group of 20 traveling to DPS next week for a Bali-Komodo tri[p, followed by a week diving around Bali. We have some interest in this issue!

 

[Dan]

Tulamben & Kubu sites were closed today, but Amed was still open. It's midnight now there. We'll see the status tomorrow.