Dive Review of
Eco-Divers/Kungkungan Bay Resort in
Indonesia/Lembeh Straits

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Dive Conditions

None.  

Camera room for charging.  Rinse tanks.  Tanks would get crowded with many
photographers with cameras piled on each other.  Rinse tanks are not
shaded.  

Overall Rating

Lembeh Straits continues to be my favorite place in the world for small and
unusual creatures.  I visit the area two to three times a year.  In the
last year I believe the very large number of resorts and liveaboards are
beginning to impact the ecosystem.  Lembeh is an area that has gone from
one resort ten years ago to 20+ and no liveaboards to 5-10 operating in the
area - many all year long.  The Lembeh diving areas are few and small and
the areas are showing the impacts of having as many as six boats diving a
single small site repeatedly every day.  The liveaboards with up to 20
divers are having an even greater impact.

Kungkungan Bay Resort (KBR) has changed very little due to the almost
non-existent investment by the owners and Eco-Divers management.  Some
rooms have seen some upgrades.  The resort has three dive boats and it is
not unusual for one of them to be non-operational.  Even when there are
three boats divers are often crowded into two boats.

Food remains very average with virtually no changes in five years. The
guides and staff at the resort are very good.  The same can't be said for
the resident managers.
 

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