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Discover insights, tips, and stories about liveaboard diving in Indonesia. From Raja Ampat to Komodo and the Banda Sea.
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Things to Do in Labuan Bajo Before and After Your Liveaboard
You get two windows in Labuan Bajo, and the one after your cruise is not a free day. What to do with both, and what the eighteen hour rule quietly rules out.
Diving the Cauldron (Shotgun) in Komodo
Komodo’s most talked-about drift, and its most misdescribed. What the Cauldron actually is, zone by zone, and the honest answer on whether you are ready for it.
Diving on Your Period, the Pill and Pregnancy at Sea
Yes, you can dive on your period. The harder questions are what a week at sea does to your supplies, your contraception and your plans, and nobody answers those.
Barotrauma in Scuba Diving: Causes and Prevention
The most common injury in diving, and the one most divers cannot define. What pressure does to the air spaces in your body, and how to stop it ending your week.
Decompression Sickness and the Liveaboard Dive Week
Three or four dives a day for six days is close to the most nitrogen-loaded thing a recreational diver ever does. What that means, and what the newest data says actually matters.
Indonesia SIM Card and eSIM: A Liveaboard Guide
Telkomsel is the only network that really works east of Bali, and the app you bought your data from may not be using it. What to buy, and where.
What Scuba Gear to Buy First: A Travel Diver Guide
Most gear advice is written for someone who drives to a cold local dive site. If your diving is warm-water trips, the order changes, and the gear that matters most weighs under a kilogram.
Diving in Currents in Indonesia: A Liveaboard Guide
The current is not the obstacle, it is the reason the diving is good. How the water differs between Komodo, Raja Ampat and the Banda Sea, and the small set of skills that makes it enjoyable.
Cape Kri, Raja Ampat: The World Record Reef
One reef corner in the Dampier Strait, 374 fish species counted on a single dive, and a record that has stood since 2012. What the number really means, and why the tide decides your dive.