Komodo Resort Dive Centre
The Komodo Resort & Diving Club is a PADI dive resort. It's Sebayur dive centre offers daily boat dives for certified divers as well as dive courses up to dive master level in English, Italian, French, Spanish and Indonesian.
Dive Centre & Service
The daily dive trips are operated with three wooden dive boats of 13m, 14.5m and the newest one of 19m in length, built particularly for diving with a stern platform and for a max. capacity of 25 divers. The cruising speed is 9 knots. The dive centre owns 25 brand new sets of Mares dive equipment and 100x 12L aluminium tanks. Nitrox is available.
Day trips
The resort's own house reef offers snorkelling only. All diving activities are done by boat. The daily dive boat departs at 8am for 2 dives and returns to the resort for lunch at around 1pm. In the afternoon at around 3pm, divers have the opportunity to do a 3rd tank dive or snorkel on the house reef. A night dive is also offered in the evening. For new guest arrivals, there is a check-out dive scheduled on the first afternoon at a beautiful dive site close to the resort. Dive groups are limited to maximum 5 divers for each guide. Before each dive there is a detailed dive briefing.
Dive area
The usual day dive trip starts at 8am. Guests board one of two double-decked wooden dive boats in Sebayur Island, and are greeted with complimentary tea and coffee, cookies and fruit. The dive sites are located about 10 minutes to 1.5 hours away from the Komodo Resort pier.
On a diving trip from Sebayur, you can dive the sites of the North Komodo area: Sebayur, Castle and Crystal Rock, The Cauldron, Golden Passage, Batu Bolong, Manta Point, Tatawa Besar and Kecil, Pulau Tenggah, to name a few wonderful places to dive. Approaching the dive sites, divers can enjoy the beauty of the Komodo National Park archipelago with its amazing landscapes. Along the way you often meet dolphins, sometimes mantas. You will dive the sites according to the conditions of the sea, especially of the tides and related currents that can be very strong in Komodo. Guests can do two dives per day trip with the option of a 3rd dive. Usually the dive boats will be back at lunch time but during a full day trip, a lunch box is served on board.