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Anyone been there with any feedback? I am planning a visit for March 2004.
Sangalaki and Nambucco
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Rickg
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Here is a link to a recent thread on this subject.
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37294&highlight=Sangalaki
If you use the Search function here on ScubaBoard you will get quite a few more hits on this.
We had a great time during our stay on Sangalaki.
Rickg
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37294&highlight=Sangalaki
If you use the Search function here on ScubaBoard you will get quite a few more hits on this.
We had a great time during our stay on Sangalaki.
Rickg
Hi,
I post this thread in 2002. Maybe it will still help. The operator has changed.
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I had trouble initially as we do not get fast response from the operator there, this is because they are still in the mist of setting the whole place as they have just taken it over from Borneo Divers.
Steve Fish, who is the Operator Manager on the island is excellent. He is friendly and obliging, he is those that do it for the passion of diving rather than just making money. That makes a lot of different. The guides and the boat mans are very good as well.
Diving around Sangalaki island is superb. It is a bit under rated by most books or magazines. We were blessed with good visibility and weather. Most dives around the island are easy and shallow. Every morning except one, we were greeted by at least one Manta. We usually looked for them on the surface first, snorkelled and then scuba. On our last day, we snorkelled with at least 6 Mantas, they were feeding on the surface. Everywhere I turn, I will see Manta flying by up close with their mouth wide open. On the boat, you will see them line up in a straight line on the surface swallowing the rich soup of plankton. Almost like a fly pass for our farewell.
Even without the Manta, diving there is really something worth talking about. Corals are really awesome, layers after layers of untouched corals. The best dive sites are "Manta Run" and "Cleaning Station". Good corals and marine life. You will see school after school of snappers, sweetlips, batfishes, unicorns, fusiliers and many others swimming pass you non stop at about 5m in Manta Run.
We dived in Kakaban as well. The highlight there is that there is a cave (very interesting, down to about 43m and exit at one of the dive site call "the wall") and a jellyfish lake (just like the one in Palau, this lake is really awesome).
Diving in Kakaban was not very good as the corals were destroyed by dynamite fishing before the island was protected.
All in all, the whole trip was great except that on our way back, the domestic flight were delay for more than an hour. Due to the delay, we missed out flight back to Singapore from Balikpapan. We end up paying another US$300 for a one way ticket back to Singapore via Jakarta on the same day : (
Food and accommodation is good.
Just to give you an idea on where I have been to and that I am comparing it with the things I have seen.
3 times in Manado
3 times in Sipadan
2 times in Maldives
once in Koh Similan
once in Layang Layang
Numerous time in Pulau Aur and Anambas
Sangalaki is really worth going. With the Mantas, it is up in the league of those that are considered the best diving spots in South East Asia.
Liang
Oh, one more thing. There were only 5 leisure divers on the island. Another couple were shooting cuttle fishes for BBC and they were on another boat.
I post this thread in 2002. Maybe it will still help. The operator has changed.
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I had trouble initially as we do not get fast response from the operator there, this is because they are still in the mist of setting the whole place as they have just taken it over from Borneo Divers.
Steve Fish, who is the Operator Manager on the island is excellent. He is friendly and obliging, he is those that do it for the passion of diving rather than just making money. That makes a lot of different. The guides and the boat mans are very good as well.
Diving around Sangalaki island is superb. It is a bit under rated by most books or magazines. We were blessed with good visibility and weather. Most dives around the island are easy and shallow. Every morning except one, we were greeted by at least one Manta. We usually looked for them on the surface first, snorkelled and then scuba. On our last day, we snorkelled with at least 6 Mantas, they were feeding on the surface. Everywhere I turn, I will see Manta flying by up close with their mouth wide open. On the boat, you will see them line up in a straight line on the surface swallowing the rich soup of plankton. Almost like a fly pass for our farewell.
Even without the Manta, diving there is really something worth talking about. Corals are really awesome, layers after layers of untouched corals. The best dive sites are "Manta Run" and "Cleaning Station". Good corals and marine life. You will see school after school of snappers, sweetlips, batfishes, unicorns, fusiliers and many others swimming pass you non stop at about 5m in Manta Run.
We dived in Kakaban as well. The highlight there is that there is a cave (very interesting, down to about 43m and exit at one of the dive site call "the wall") and a jellyfish lake (just like the one in Palau, this lake is really awesome).
Diving in Kakaban was not very good as the corals were destroyed by dynamite fishing before the island was protected.
All in all, the whole trip was great except that on our way back, the domestic flight were delay for more than an hour. Due to the delay, we missed out flight back to Singapore from Balikpapan. We end up paying another US$300 for a one way ticket back to Singapore via Jakarta on the same day : (
Food and accommodation is good.
Just to give you an idea on where I have been to and that I am comparing it with the things I have seen.
3 times in Manado
3 times in Sipadan
2 times in Maldives
once in Koh Similan
once in Layang Layang
Numerous time in Pulau Aur and Anambas
Sangalaki is really worth going. With the Mantas, it is up in the league of those that are considered the best diving spots in South East Asia.
Liang
Oh, one more thing. There were only 5 leisure divers on the island. Another couple were shooting cuttle fishes for BBC and they were on another boat.
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