c a w a n k e r i n g :D: Banda Neira

BANDA NEIRA DIVING TRIP

DAY 1 - 21102022

Starts our day with taking bus from MJG to KLIA2. It takes RM6 for grab from home to bus station. Arrived at KLIA2 around 545 AM. Wait for Subuh prayer. Then we go for bfast at lucky kopi? Bit expensive for most of the meals. Just above average in taste. But i would say poor services from their staff. Some of it kinda rude. Grrr.

I manage to sleep for a while waiting my wife back from the toilet. Hehe

We ate Pak Nasser Nasi Lemak as inflight meals. The taste i think a little different than last meal i had 😂 I should try other menu for next flight then.

First time to meet all of them 19 in total with different professional background. Teacher, Dr and some more with engineering background ONG. I would say they have a lot of experience with diving. So far as i know 100 dives at least. Dive basics is in their palm i think. First dive with experience divers

Overall i love the LOB. E do eat dive and repeat for the most of the time. I would consider this is heaven of the diver ever since we just double check the equipments just before dives. Especially on mask fin and requlator. We ddnt carry the heavy equipment ourselves. The crew will setup out equipment and bring to the small boat.

Assign with group no 2. Sherwynd and wing. Arnold. My wife and I.

Afterall the meal was great. We have 3 main meal include bfast, lunch and dinner bwtween the dives. Total of at least 4 dives per day. Such and endurance dive i think.

Batu Lompa

Check dive. Extra weight inside of my BCD. 4 weight in total. I need to improve on ascend and maintain rather than descend.
Most of them have their on dive camera. And they using TG6 and Sony mirrorless. Gopro also.

Once arrived at Kota Ambon Airport. Greet by Arnold and team. DM team from seamore.

1st Dive

7th Dive

Dive was late night dive or we called it sunset dive.
I would say that we have bad DM. Misscomm erm idk. One of it because of im not well brief on the site at first

8th Dive

Ameth
Hammerhead Hunting

9th Dive

Ameth
Hammerhead Hunting

10th Dive

Ameth
Hammerhead Hunting

Ddnt go for night dive. Rest n save our energy for tomorrow.

11th Dive

Not a good dive for me. Sorry my team since cant make it to the hammerhead.
Spoil the team with problem with my ears.
Cant equalize well. The pressure keep hitting my left ears.
End up i signed to the DM for not go deeper then current depth.
Dissappointing but somehow i proud of myself coz ddnt panic just calm and chill till reqch back to the surface.
Theres one point the world become upside down. I said to myself thats it, but then i wake me up by goncang kepala and all for not to pengsan.

12th Dive

Batu Kapal
But better to equalize my ear

Sightseeing at BandaNeira.

We go to the fort.

Benting Belgica at Banda Neira

13th Dive

Night dive
Mandarin fish

14th Dive

Hammerhead
Difficult to descend at first
After few metre away then im good till we make tit to see hammerhead with our naked eyes.

Above are list of dive sites.

Thats all for our dive trip. Now we are heading Teluhu port near to Banda Neira. 40 mins drive to Kota Ambon Airport.

0100 HRS we arrived nearby the port. 1st trip to mainland for whoever have early morning flight. For us we check out at 8AM. Since we will check in another night at Kota Ambon

With our DM

Almost 1hrs drive, we arrived at swiss bel hotel, Kota Ambon. Our room is not yet ready for check in. Will be ready at 2PM. So we decided to sight seeing around the hotel. There are School fest at the Park. Theres a lot student there, such a happening Pening one! HAHA

We went to World Gong Pendamaian consist of few country involves include malaysia.

Till then, we went for mall nearby. We found out that the mall ddnt interesting at all. So we decided to for fill up our stomach. Bakso Tejo, along the way we bought es pisang. It tastes good with Banana covered with green cover inside the es.

There you go.

Bakso with very hungy people. Total of 50k for the lunch

Get Grab to AMQ airport.

We flew to DPS which is Bali/

Once arrives went to Bali Luggage Storage. Store our luggage for 6 days. 200k rp. Then go to 101 oasis, Sanur. Had our dinner. Room Service meal, cordon blue and salmon. Rest for tomorrow went to Safari.