Dive Review of NAD Lembeh in
Indonesia/Lembeh Strait

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NAD Lembeh: "One guide for every two divers", Nov, 2024, by JOHN HOOVER, HI, US ( Reviewer 5 reports with 2 Helpful votes). Report 13219.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
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Comments	This small resort is geared for serious muck divers and photographers. It has a huge, well-equipped camera room, and they provide one guide per every two divers. (However, as I was traveling solo, I got my own personal guide!) Breakfast starts at 6 am and first dive is 7:30. Unlike some Lembeh resorts, the boat does not come back to the resort between dives. That is my only 'complaint', but it did allow for traveling to more distant sites. Food is good, nothing fancy. Rooms are good, nothing fancy. Guides and boat people are excellent. House reef is mostly muck. There is some coral and a few structures that might have been old boats or something. I found lots of interesting stuff on the house reef. I gave it 5 stars for experienced divers, but that's only if you like muck diving. If you want clear water and gorgeous coral, Lembeh is probably not for you. Go to Bunaken or Bangka.
Websites	NAD Lembeh [same]
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Mostly Hawaii, but all over
Closest Airport	Manado, Indonesia	Getting There	Either through Singapore or Jakarta.
Dive Conditions
Weather	cloudy	Seas	calm
Water Temp	86-°F / 30-°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	20-40 Ft/ 6-12 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	One generally dives with a guide off a boat. Dives are 75 minutes. I don't know what they enforce, if anything, when diving the house reef without a guide.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	As I mentioned before, the camera room is huge. The photography here is almost exclusively macro photography. If you don't like small critters and fish, Lembeh Strait is not for you.

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Dive Review of NAD Lembeh in Indonesia/Lembeh Strait

NAD Lembeh: "One guide for every two divers", Nov, 2024,

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

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Reporter and Travel

Dive Conditions

Dive Policy

What I Saw

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Dive Review of NAD Lembeh in
Indonesia/Lembeh Strait