I would stay at Padang Bai and have few bottles of Bintang instead.
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I would stay at Padang Bai and have few bottles of Bintang instead.
Which would you have preferred? Had you known that you would see a great white, would you have given up the mola molas and the thresher shark?
I would stay at Padang Bai and have few bottles of Bintang instead.
This was not the first sighting reported. Guys like Wally report having sighted them a few times over their decades long dive career from Bali. Such encounters are obviously not as frequent as say thresher sharks or whale sharks on Bali, but this does not make a first... Only social media hype does, reminding me of the shite video supposed to be at Manta Point with more plastic than water!
Anyways, I'd personally love to see a great white on a chance encounter. I had what looked like a silky once on a sunrise dive in Padang Bai and only one leopard shark at Crystal Bay on the deep side. Threshers and whale sharks a few times all over the island from Tulamben to North Penida. This type of encounters of extremely rare encounters make diving here all the more exciting. Let's just hope dive ops won't start advertising this and Anglo-Saxon media won't do their usual tourist scaremongering!
Oh, the scaremongering has already started: Terrifying moment enormous five-metre great white shark stalks scuba divers in Bali | Daily Mail OnlineMy trip this time is not really for diving, my gf is not a diver. But I might do a Mola trip. Aqua Marine is still using my mola and diver photo from 10 years ago.
I don't mind seeing things out in the blue. If you keep looking, there are things out there that most divers don't see. Too bad I have a macro lens on when the whale shark goes over my head.
I don't think it's scaremongering, I would love to see one.