Three dives today on ‘Toby’ the Blue Marlin speedboat, although not so speedy as only 2 of the 3 engines were operating. This however played to our advantage as we got to the three dive sites in perfect conditions. We were split into 3 groups, ours was ‘Pirate Group Japan’ as Tom our other dive companion was a long term Gaijin and we had...

Dive 1 Policemans Corner Last day of diving today. We started with a ‘newly discovered’ dive site called Policemans Corner (don’t know why). It was a different type of dive as there is a very deep large hollow – formed almost as though there had been a big cave and the roof fell in – so one is left with a sloping reef and then an...

Left our mooring in the cove at Lawa Darat and motored over to the island of Tatawa Besar for our morning dive. Later we will move to little (Kecil) Tatawa for our second dive. Dive 1 Tatawa Besar 59 min, 19.5m, visibility excellent 40m First dive was a drift dive in a gentle rising tide. The tidal flow was coming from the south which edies back on itself at the...

Sunrise at Crystal Rock Sunrise dive to Crystal Rock to try and catch some good shark scenes. Andy picked our time and entry point well as we dropped into the North side which was very sheltered and for most of our dive we had the site to ourselves. Andy had explained to us in our briefing that if he felt the time was right he would ‘scratch/ bang’ an...

We lifted anchor at 0630 to motor up to the Northern section of Komodo Park where we will be moored for the next 2 nights. Pretty cruise up the coast of Komodo island to Lawa Darat. Here is a link to my YouTube video Komodo Day 3 . Below is a slide show of some photos. https://dive.jnm-outdoors.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMG_1143.mp4 First dive Golden Passage...

Check dive at Sabayor Kecil, great view of flat head crocodile fish in a coral bowl and a juvenile batfish