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The Places they visit:
Bira (Sulawesi) - Kendari (Sulawesi): Bira - Kabaena - Muna - Buton - Tukangbesi Archipelago – Kendari
A unique combination of the south sulawesi area, Bira, where big game is easy to see and the “must see” of one of the most beautiful and protected reefs in Indonesia: Wakatobi = Tukangbesi :The name of the four main islands, Wangi, Kaledupa, Tomea and Binongko form the acronym of Wakatobi, well known name for this archipelago. Smaller multitude of islands configure an intricate labyrinth of reefs that include everything that a diver desires: a true paradise of biodiversity
Bira: In the outskirts of the Cape of Bira there is a group of small islands where you can dive in vertical walls as well as in beautiful hard coral gardens. Turtles and reef sharks are omnipresent, apart from groupers, moray eels and different rays.
Kendari (Sulawesi) - Bima (Sumbawa): Kendari - Tukangbesi Archipelago - Island of Kakabia - Island of Batu Ata - Komodo & Rinca National Park – Bima
Sail and dive in some of the best dive sites of two of the most precious jewels of the Indonesian diving paradise, Tukangbesi and Komodo, linked in this unique cruise by a superb and outstanding sail through some enigmatic isolated islands where very few people have dived before.
Between The Tukangbesi Archipelago and Komodo & Rinca National Park, 3 isolated islands in the middle of the Flores Sea:Sangisangiang, Kakabia y Batu Ata. The 3 of them are surrounded by deep waters and are a real adventure diving promise land! Vertical walls decorated with large blocks of gigantic gorgonias and black coral, caves and crevices richly decorated. Eagle rays, manta rays, sharks, barracudas and carangids can easily be seen in the blue.
Komodo & Rinca National Park: The narrow straits between these two islands communicate the Flores Sea with the Indian Ocean. Their tide currents provide a continuous exchange of water and nutrients between the inner sea and the ocean creating a unique ecosystem, favouring the biodiversity. Due to the high degree of protection that this National Park enjoys, it is also an area of great abundance of fish, with thick schools of carangids, sweet lips and butterflies, as well as frequent encounters with manta rays and reef sharks.
Bima (Sumbawa)- Maumere (Flores): Bima - Komodo & Rinca National Park - Riung - Maumere Bay - Maumere
Everysingle kind of different dives in one single cruise: drift dives, coralgardens, muckdiving, wrecks, walls......satisfaction guaranteed!!
Pulau Paloe: North of Flores, this volcanic island is surrounded by deep waters and offers interesting diving in deep walls with caves and overhangs where large groupers, lobsters and moray eels live. All around, bat fish, white and black tip sharks and big tuna swim in the open waters.
Bay of Maumere: in 1992 an earthquake followed by a tsunami wave hit with anger all the area. Ten years later the walls that surround these islands have managed to recover practically in their totality from that natural disaster and they actually offer good dives in mild currents, with a healthy population of gorgonias and sponges, with big groupers lurking in crevices, antias and butterfly fish. In the blue big tuna and carangids patrol the depths seeking for their prey.
Maumere - Maumere (Flores): Maumere - Maumere Bay, Lomblen, Adonara & Pantar Straits & Alor – Maumere
The mysterious and isolated far east. East of the island of Flores the straits between the islands resemble the komodo strait with a greater touch of places to be discovered.....and on top of that Maumere Bay where you can muck dive for rarities, wall dive, drift dive and wreck dive all in one single day!!
Straits of Alor: Like Komodo and Rinca, the straits between the islands of Pantar and Alor, East of Flores, are simply superb. The macro lovers will enjoy the colourful chromodoris nudibranchs, the curious shrimps and strange crabs, while those of you watching the blue will frequently make out large groupers, rays, and black tip sharks, as well as occasionally grey tips, silver tips and at times even Whale Sharks. In the anchorages of the islands of Adonara and Lomblen great dives and in more protected waters can be done, with the classical exuberant coral gardens and schools of tropical fish. The straits are also the place to see large whales in transit.
Maumere (Flores) - Sorong (Papua): Maumere Bay- Alor - Islands of Gunung Api, Lucipara and Penyu - Banda Islands- Gorong - Misool- Raja Empat Archipelago – Sorong
One of the very few opportunities for a great sea adventure yet in the world. Exploration, discovery, outstanding diving, isolated and lush islands. Everyday a new wonder !
From Alor, Ondina sail Northeast through a volcanic chain of islands situated in the middle of the Banda Sea. These remote islands separated by some tens of miles one from the other are surrounded by deep and vertical walls overlooking one of the biggest depths in the Indian Ocean: 7.000 meters!.
Banda Archipelago: Known as one of the areas with greater potential for diving in Indonesia, this group of islands offer dives of all types: from "lagoons" with shallow waters, to adrenaline drift dives along deep walls decorated with an extensive marine profusion of life and a great abundance of fish..
Sorong: The west tip of the greater island of the world, New Guinea, politically divided in two halves: the independent country of Papua New Guinea (PNG) in its more eastern half, and the province where Indonesia ends towards the east, now called Papua and previously known as Irian Jaya.
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This really is the last frontier for adventure. Exploratory diving together with one of the really few remaining wild regions on this planet. Leaving from the port of Sorong, in the "Bird' s head peninsula", Ondina sailing through the archipelago of the Four Rajas (Rajah Empat), among the island of Waigeo to the north and Misool to the south. The area where Ondina sail holds the record of the biggest number of different species counted in a single dive. The reefs of Rajah Empat enjoy a healthy marine biodiversity with more than 400 species of coral having been discovered here. Besides the abundance of fauna, this region contains numerous wrecks of Japanese ships and aeroplanes from the terrible battles held during the Second World War in this area. |
