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Komodo on the Phinisi Ambasi

Posted by canice82 | 29th October 2009

Komodo has the most vicious currents I’ve ever experienced in my 300+ dives. This place is definitely NOT recommended for novices. The currents change by the second and a reef hook was necessary on some of the dives. We even had to abort one of the dives as we were practically being stirred about by the currents at the aptly-named Cauldron!

However the reward for braving these ferocious currents is, of course, the spectacular diving. The big fish action here is superb, and there are no words to describe the exhilaration of being in the middle of a school of rainbow runners being hunted by whitetip sharks, black trevallies and bluefin mackerel. You will get to see whitetip sharks, napoleon wrasses, jacks, mackeral, turtles, schooling snapper/fusilier/rainbow runners on almost every dive, and we even saw a grey reef shark at Castle Rock. I spotted an eagle ray at Crystal Rock but it was too near the surface for a good shot (we were at about 20m at the time). There was only 1 manta at

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