Dive Review of Grand Komodo Diving/Raja Ampat in
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Grand Komodo Diving/Raja Ampat, Aug, 2007, by Terry Anderson, TX, USA ( Sr. Contributor 28 reports with 15 Helpful votes). Report 3613.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
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Comments	Leatherback Turtle Expedition, guided by Save Our Leatherback Turtles founder and director, Larry McKinna, who is a walking encylopedia on the rare turtles. Fourteen people, and tweleve days on the Grand Komodo's MS Raja Ampat, a new, very comfortable dive boat in the beautiful Indonesian traditional style. Superb service, excellent food, lots of smiles--our fourth trip with this outstanding company: www.komodoalordive.com. Owner Reno and her staff are great, and make all arrangements; I went early to visit Java and Tian made all hotel and plane reservations, all at very good prices. DM Hary [and three other DMs] is outstanding, and will take divers into tiny villages to sample the culture. The Trip: Two days in Leatherback area, and one night watching 4 enormous 1000 pounders, 9 footers, laying their 80 eggs, covering them up, and going back to the ocean. Lots of fabulous pictures of turtles, and the local aborigine people, who put on a traditional turtle dance for us to bring them ashore, and then marveled at how they looked on camera. A special night: www.leatherbackturtles.org. Then 10 days diving the Raja Ampat area;only saw one other diveboat. Last time in this area, 2003, we saw 14 new species; this time 9, including sea moth, white nudibrach, black leopard wrass, baramundi cod, and a blue-ring octopus. All that besides the usual epaulette and wobegon sharks, pigmy seahorses, hawkbill turtles, banded pipefish, crocodile fish, scorpion fish, stonefish, lionfish, lobsters, cuttlefish, large schools of barracudas and jacks, and 4 or 5 banded sea snakes, including one 9 footer. Unfortunately, reef sharks are down, so would someone please tell the Chinese to stop ordering shark fins and instead use Viagra... This was a fabulous trip, and it was so educational to dive these waters while learning so much about, and helping, newborn Leatherback Turtles.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	All over the world
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	cloudy	Seas
Water Temp	82-84°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	60-80 Ft/ 18-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	Schools	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	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Grand Komodo Diving/Raja Ampat in Indonesia/Raja Ampat

Grand Komodo Diving/Raja Ampat, Aug, 2007,

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Dive Review of Grand Komodo Diving/Raja Ampat in
Indonesia/Raja Ampat