Should I dive in Nusa Penida?

[Manneca]

Echoing everyone else--make sure you go with a reputable operation. I stay on Nusa Lembongan and I've done tons of dives at Crystal Bay, Manta Point and Manta Bay. The operation I use won't go out if the conditions are rough. They also have max 4 divers per guide and usually fewer. I hear that some of the Bali operations that go to Nusa Penida are iffy, but I don't know.

Molas are not a sure thing; mantas generally are. I've seen two molas in probably 60 days of diving from Nusa Lembongan and both were off the north coast not Crystal Bay and were on my last trip.

 

[Neptune Scuba Diving]

Nusa Penida is generally suitable for both beginner divers as well as Discover Scuba Diving and snorkelling. Of course, it all depends on the guides, structure of the group, overall safety protocols.

Just dropping a message here, if you would like to go into planning, we can setup a dive design privately

 

[cpm6t]

Okay. I just came back from my vacation in Bali. Did two dive days in Nusa Pendia (6 dives total) and it was amazing. Manta Point/ Manta bay/ Crystal bay/PED point/ SD point & Toyopakeh. Saw lots of manta, no Mola-mola (didn't have much hope about them anyway), the drift dives was amazing and the currents were at a very comfortable level. Did the dives with Neptune Scuba Diving, which is the best dive shop I've dived with so far. They are a very modern, safety concerned and very much customer oriented dive shop. If I go to Bali again, that is where I would go. My dive guide GEDE was a great guy! Just wanted to give an update to everybody who gave their input in this thread.

 

[gekodivebali]

Yep, definitely choose safe dive ops!