Dive Review of Grand Komodo in
Indonesia/Hamalhara

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Grand Komodo, Jul, 2009, by Terry Anderson, Texas, USA ( Sr. Contributor 28 reports with 15 Helpful votes). Report 5052.
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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	Grand Komodo [www.komodoalordive.com] KLM Temukira. Halmalhara trip, July 14-23 2009. This is our 5th trip with Grand Komodo in the last decade. The service on land and on the liveaboard is unsurpassed. On land they make all hotel and airplane arrangements to get you from Bali to the boat, and at sea they do everything to make your diving experience outstanding at a relatively inexpensive price. If you would like they will arrange tours of Bali or the or other areas in Indonesia; they are a full scale travel agent with great information about their friendly country. On the Temukira there were 8 crew and 2 DMs [Wika and Jonnie] to take care of us 5 divers on the entire boat set up for 12 divers--all of us were repeat customers. The cook gave my wife cooking lessions and the crew caught a fresh Mackerel for one dinner. Halmalhara is a new dive destination, and we never saw another dive boat or Western face. Underwater, and like Raja Rampat, we saw reef sharks, hawkbills, schools of amberjack, barracuda, tuna, mackerel, rainbow runners, Jacks, wahoo, humpheads, along with lots of scorpion and crocodile fish, pigmy and regular seahorses, ghost pipefish, eels, banded seasnakes, lionfish, even wonderpus mating. Night dives produced Spanish dancers, epaulette shark, and tons of critters. Since it is a new area they have not yet found the manta feeding station, which they promise to find soon. Outstanding adventure, accommodations, crew, and diving: world class. We can't wait to return.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	All over the world
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, cloudy	Seas	calm, currents
Water Temp	82-86°F / 28-30°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	20-90 Ft/ 6-27 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	None. Dive own profile
Liveaboard?	yes	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	N/A	Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Modern photo accomodiations with electrical to fit US, European, or Asian equipment.

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Dive Review of Grand Komodo in Indonesia/Hamalhara

Grand Komodo, Jul, 2009,

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What I Saw

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Dive Review of Grand Komodo in
Indonesia/Hamalhara