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Dive Alor Dive
"If you haven't dived Alor with Graeme and Donovan, then you haven't dived Alor."
Dr. Kal Muller
Father and son:
Graeme is an Australian born P.A.D.I. Divemaster and Donovan is an Australian born P.A.D.I. Divemaster, Instructor and Master Scuba Diver Trainer.
They learnt to dive together in the late eighties and not only discovered Alor but Kupang and Rote Islands too. They regularly have diving tours to Alor, Rote, Komodo, Labuan Bajo, Riung, Maumere and around the islands of Kera and Semau just out from Kupang, Timor.
Muck Diving:
Alor is Indonesia 's newest Mecca for Muck diving according to Larry Smith(R.I.P.), renowned expert on Indonesia 's most famous Muck and strange critter diving locations.
"Alor is simply the best of the best".
Alor is teeming with numerous dive sites that offer even the most seasoned of Muck divers an experience they will never forget. So dust off those cameras and prepare to meet some weird creatures that in any other context could come from another planet.
Dive Alor Dive have many amazing sites that are literally crawling with some of the most unusual critters that you can possibly encounter underwater, from Pegasus Sea Moths to Mimic Octopus, Devil Fish to Ornate Sea Horses.
Orcas:
Orcas or Killer Whales are the largest of all the Dolphins and swim in family groups of up to a dozen. Over the past decade, Dive Alor Dive have documented the migrating habits of various groups of Orcas through the Alor Archipelago.
On many previous occasions, they have offered their guests the once in a lifetime opportunity to snorkeling with these "Gentle Giants". The largest group they have encountered was a family group of nine females with juveniles and one satellite male.
With this particular group, they snorkeled with them on three separate occasions coming within meters of them.
Sunfish:
Diving or snorkeling with Sunfish is something that eludes most divers, even the seasoned ones.
In Alor, Sunfish have not only been seen by Donovan, while diving, at most of his 40 odd dive sites but he's now discovered the secret to snorkeling with them on a regular basis.
Each individual animal has it's own markings, much the same as a dairy cow, so they can be identify easily and you know if you see the same one more than once.
From around fifty separate sightings over the years, Donovan has yet to encounter the same individual twice. It can only be assumed from this that there are large numbers of Sunfish inhabiting or migrating through the Alor Archipelago.