Bali Dive @ Nusa Penida Manta Point & Crystal Bay
What a great day of diving in Bali at Nusa Penida. We started the day off at Manta Point and were rewarded with 2 or 3 Oceanic Manta Rays that stopped by for a quick clean at the cleaning station. I have not gotten to the point that I can tell which one is which, Oceanic Manta rays all have distinct looks and if you see them enough times you can tell them apart. I use to do the night dive in Kona and they had the same group of Mantas coming on a regular basis and they had names for all of them. The Kona Manta Night Dive is always rated as one of the ten best dives in the world, so I guess that The Bali dive sites should be on the list of best dives in Asia as the Mantas and the Mola Molas if you are lucky can be seen on the same dive trip!
The water temp at Manta Point was 21 degrees according to my Gecko dive computer I notice that all of the instructors at Blue Season are diving Suunto in one form or another I would say that the Gecko is the most popular followed by the D9 then the D6. I saw for the first time today a Scuba Pro dive computer and man you can use that thing as a extra weight very heavy but it has a big face which I like and another feature that i noticed was a graph bar that shows the residual Nitrogen that you have long after you are done diving as well as a no fly countdown clock I like the idea of a graph I would feel more comfortable if for instance I needed to drive over a hill that was in the 1000 meter range, In Hawaii we use to drive home from Hounounou and we would have to cross a 1500 meters halfway back to Kona town it would have been nicwe to have that graph then. We actually knew a instructor that got bent crossing that little hill when she had been diving alot of days in a row.
At the beginning of the last paragraph I mentioned the temp the reason I mentioned the temp is that the falling water temp means that the Mola Molas will be coming more frequently.