One of the great things on this itinerary is the marine bio-diversity that divers will experience.

Large animals turn up in the Alor/Pantar Strait that are rarely seen in other destinations; Mola
Mola, Thresher and Hammerhead Sharks and absolutely huge Dogtooth Tuna have seen. On other dives along our northern route we are often visited by massive NapoleonWrasse, plenty of Whitetip, Blacktip and Grey Reefsharks, colossal Black Blotched Stingrays as well as squadrons of Eagle and Mobular Rays.

Huge schools of Dolphins are a common sight on our travels as they race towards to boat to play in our bow wave. The channels that separate the islands serve as a major thoroughfare for much larger cetaceans too and it is not unusual to see one or two huge whales surfacing to breath, even the massive Blue and Fin varieties.

On the opposite extreme, the most avid critter divers know of the Lembeh Strait in Sulawesi but not many have heard of the Kalabahi Sound, Teluk Lebaleba, TelukWaihinga or Beangabang Bay - all of which are on a par with their more famous cousin. These areas produce rare and cryptic creatures time and  time again, and without the crowds or overzealous divemasters moving the marine life around.  The Komodo Dancer team has only really scratched the surface, or bottom if you want to be technically correct.  To produce a world class critter site conditions must be right; slightly sloping sandy gravel and silt is the preferred bottom composition, washed over daily by a gentle tidal current and preferably mixed with a fresh water outflow such as a stream or river. When these environments combine then things start to get interesting, and there are plenty of opportunities to find them in the hundreds of bays and coves that are a feature of the islands.

Pulau Lapan
            Orang utan crabs galore, great reef, small school of baracuda

Pulau Buaya, Alor
            Great wall dive with some nice nudi's

Kalabahi Bay, Alor
            Zebra crabs, many nudi's, tiger shrimps, bobtail squids, strange frogfish species

Kalabahi Bay, Alor (Night)  
            Spotfin frogfish, tiger shrimps, boxer crabs, thorny sea horse, many nudi's

Ternate, Alor
            Great wall and scenery, hairy squat lobster and nudi's

Pura, Alor
            Anemone fish galore, fisherman up above watching, nudi's porcelain crabs

Pantar
            ghost pipefish, tiny frogfish, snake eels, yellow spotted snake eel

Pulau Pura, Alor
            Great scenery, 2 leaf fish, 2 inimicus, soft coral crab, snake eel

Kalabahi Bay, Alor
            Hardings black coral crab, Coleman shrimps, many nudi's, sea horse

Kalabahi Bay, Alor
            Zebra crabs, 3 sea horses, juvenile Spanish dancer, robust ghost pipefish

Weitere Highlights
             Mimic Octopus, Gurnard Lionfish (Blue fin Lionfish)