Dive Review of Mona Lisa in
Indonesia/Komodo Island

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Mona Lisa, May, 2014, by Carol Sommers, IL, US ( Sr. Reviewer 8 reports with 6 Helpful votes). Report 7619.
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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
Overall Rating
Value for $$
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Comments	My trip with another company had been cancelled, but the Mona Lisa lets you start and finish diving whenever you want so my vacation was saved and over 10 days, I dived 38 times. There were four dives daily, including a night dive. The pre-dive briefing was the most complete I had ever experienced, including advice about possible currents. There were never more than 4 divers with a divemaster and for two days I was the only one on the boat since divers arrived and left according to their own schedules. The food was tasty and nutritious. Cereal and toast were available if you wanted to eat before the 7:30 dive, then a hot breakfast with eggs was served, then after the second dive, a hot lunch, and after the third dive, a snack which was freshly baked cake 3 times while I was there and a full meal which always included a beef stew was served at 8:30 after the 6:30 night dive. The speedboat taking us to dive sights had a sturdy, safe ladder. Being a senior diver (66), I passed up my weights and they took my bc and tank. There were always several helping hands stretched out as I reboarded the Mona Lisa. My room was quiet and comfortable with a roomy shower and toilet. If anything needed repair (a toilet switch), it was done immediately. The diving was spectacular. The only site with a considerable current was Manta Point, but that's the way mantas like it, so we found a rock to hang onto and enjoyed the show. I saw them on every dive there since it's a cleaning station. A small school of butterflyfish was cleaning one of them. I videoed cuttlefish courting and mating for ten minutes, had a turtle almost land on me, saw sea snakes, many pygmy seahorses, stingrays and octopus hunting, nudibranchs I hadn't seen in the Philippines. many schools of fish at Batu Balong and of course, took off one early morning dive to see the Komodo Dragons. To top it all off, it cost $1,000 less than the cancelled boat!
Websites	Mona Lisa
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Grenada, Cozumel, Belize, Florida, North Carolina, Curacao, Lake Michigan, Philippines, Sea of Cortez, Palau, Yap
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	79-83°F / 26-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-80 Ft/ 15-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	One needed to stay with the divemaster since he knew how to avoid current areas. Dives were 60 minutes long unless you wanted to come up earlier.
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	Squadrons
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	N/A
UW Photo Comments	A rinse tank was conveniently available, cameras were handed to you and there was plenty of room for drying and assembling cameras.

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Dive Review of Mona Lisa in Indonesia/Komodo Island

Mona Lisa, May, 2014,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

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What I Saw

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Dive Review of Mona Lisa in
Indonesia/Komodo Island