Dive Review of Cocotinos Resort in
Indonesia/N. Sulawesi

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Cocotinos Resort, Oct, 2009, by Roger Roth, OH, USA ( Contributor 16 reports with 8 Helpful votes). Report 5218.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	Cocotinos is a small resort outside of Manado with a very attentive staff from the people at registration to the restaurant to the dive staff. There are plenty of resort supervisors and managers available to handle any concerns anyone might have. The resort is set up for individual divers as well as larger groups. Larger groups will have their own boat(s) and will keep the same guides throughout their stay for familiarity reasons. The food is excellent with servers standing nearby all of the time to attend to any needs of the guests. The rooms are spacious with plenty of storage and the beds are very comfortable. Bathroom and showers are also very spacious. Cocotinos will usually dive Bunaken National Marine Park but they also make trips to Lembeh, Manado, and other areas for groups interested in these excursions. Diving can be three dives a day without returning to the resort, or two dives in the morning in Bunaken (40-50 minute boat ride), return for lunch, then a third afternoon dive closer to the resort (5-10 minute boat ride). A late-afternoon mandarin dive or night dive is also available. The walls in Bunaken are some of the most beautiful and prolific and healthy as any I've seen in the world with huge seafans and corals half the size of divers. These wall dives are usually somewhat drift dives to keep things easy. If currents change, the divemasters change directions to stay with the currents. At the end of the dives, the boats are nearby to pick up the divers. The diveguides will allow photographers/videographers to do their own thing (within reason) and will gladly point out the critters they so adeptly can locate from the passing shark below to the smallest of critters, including a .5cm juvenile harlequin shrimp and a pygmy frogfish approximately 2-3mm. In a 1 week visit, critters I filmed included (but not limited to) orangutang crab, coral crab, robust and ornate ghost pipefish, plenty of sailfin and other shrimpgobies with their symbiotic alpheid shrimp, squat lobsters, crinoid fish and shrimp, tube blennies, ribbon eels, snake eels, sea snakes, unicornfish, plenty of tropical colorful anthias, banners, tangs, surgeons and the like, along with an abundance of nudibranchs and flatworms to one's heart's content.
Websites	Cocotinos Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Fiji, Hawaii, PNG, Red Sea, 20 islands in Caribbean, and more.
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm, choppy, currents, no currents
Water Temp	82-85°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	5
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	The camera room is well-equipped for about a half dozen UWP's and is air conditioned. There is a good-sized rinse tank on the boats for cameras in between dives. Staff is very careful with camera equipment. Divers take their own camera gear to and from boats. Compressed air is available to dry off housings and this is outside of camera room.

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Dive Review of Cocotinos Resort in Indonesia/N. Sulawesi

Cocotinos Resort, Oct, 2009,

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Dive Review of Cocotinos Resort in
Indonesia/N. Sulawesi