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Wakatobi Dive Resort: "Wakatobi in January", Jan, 2024, by David Steinberg , OR, US ( Reviewer 4 reports with 3 Helpful votes). Report 12888 has 1 Helpful vote.
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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 $$
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	The good: very pristine reefs, coral, and tropical fish support of the local population fishing outside of the dive sites in exchange for resort compensation excellent dive facilities, nitrox and 100cf tanks, rinse areas, storage excellent 18 meter dive boats always professionally crewed exceptional dive guides attention to safety, briefings, comfort beautiful beach bungalows, short walk to dining hall, excellent food BLD and in-betweens Very polite staff, they even learned our names by day 2 The bad: mosquitoes in the morning dining area sometimes
Websites	Wakatobi Dive Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Puget Sound, Vancouver Island, Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, Cozumel, Palau, Turkey, Belize, Hawaii, Florida, Papau New Guinea, Indonesia
Closest Airport	Denpasar, Bali	Getting There	From west coast of the USA, LAX or SFO to Honk Kong or Signapore, then to Bali
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, rainy, cloudy	Seas	calm, currents
Water Temp	127-86°F / 53-30°C	Wetsuit Thickness	7
Water Visibility	50-150 Ft/ 15-46 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	After DM assessment on house reef, you can manage your own profile with DM approval
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	The Wakatobi representative in the USA, Miichelle, was very responsive, answering all questions by phone and email as they came up during planning the 19 day dive trip. The diving was spectacular, I logged 40 dives including 4 night dives, a must! We were assigned one dive guide, Andhy, a PADI instructor, with exceptional knowledge of the dive sites and critters. He was able to find numerous pygmy seahorses that we could only see with his magnifying glass. The colors of every dive site were like being in fantasyland; I haven't seen a healthy reef like this since PNG in 2008. Highlights include several cuttlefish that enjoyed being observed, dragon-moths crawling on the sand, buried stone fish, and a few octopuses, one on patrol in its domain. There were currents at times, including the strongest one I've ever experienced in 30 years of diving. I estimated it at 4-5 knots and it carried us for over 10 minutes horizontally and vertically. A beginner diver probably would have panicked.

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Dive Review of Wakatobi Dive Resort in Indonesia/Sulawesi, Wakatobi

Wakatobi Dive Resort: "Wakatobi in January", Jan, 2024,

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Dive Review of Wakatobi Dive Resort in
Indonesia/Sulawesi, Wakatobi