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Send the month, the group and roughly what you want out of the week. A first reply usually lands within two hours.

typical first reply
2 hrs typical first reply
to a written itinerary
24 hrs to a written itinerary
and with no obligation
Free and with no obligation
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Four Ways In

WhatsApp is fastest. Email is best if you are sending dates, passports or a group list.

Our office

Jalan Sunset Road No. 88
Kuta, Badung, Bali 80361
Indonesia

The office is in Bali; the boats and crew are in Raja Ampat. If your question is operational rather than commercial, say so and it goes straight to the people on the water.

Make the reply useful

Six Things Worth Telling Us First

Send these and the first reply is a real answer rather than a list of questions.

Build your own route
A masted phinisi lying at anchor in still water below the forested cliffs of Raja Ampat

Your month, or your flexibility

the biggest single factor

A fixed week in January and "somewhere in the shoulder season" produce very different answers on both availability and price. If you can flex, say so — it usually helps you.

How many of you

two to twelve

The rate is per person and falls as the group fills, so four of you and twelve of you taking the whole vessel. The second is often better value per person than people expect.

Certification levels

for everyone diving

Advanced Open Water with 50+ logged dives is the bar. Tell us where the group actually sits and we will build the route around the least experienced diver, not the most.

How long you have

including travel days

Three, five or seven nights on the water — plus two travel days at each end. People routinely forget the second part and end up rushing the first.

Anyone not diving

say so early

A trip day is built end to end around diving. If someone in the party is not diving, that changes our recommendation — sometimes to a different platform entirely.

What you actually want to see

if there is one thing

Mantas, macro, caverns, wide-angle photography. Say it, and the route gets drawn around it rather than around a template.

Before you write

Three Answers You May Already Need

These come up in almost every first message.

When should we come?

October to April, with manta activity peaking December to February. June to August we would generally talk you out of.

Best time to dive

What does it cost?

Quoted per group rather than per seat. The cost page explains what the number is made of.

What it costs

How do we get there?

Jakarta or Bali, then Sorong, then the crossing. We handle the domestic leg and the transfers.

Getting to Misool

While you wait for a reply

Worth Reading First

The three pages most people ask about after their first message.

A tender running the narrow channel between two towering jungle-topped limestone walls

7 days

Southern Archipelago

The full route — the one most enquiries end up on.

A diver above a reef wall thick with pink Dendronephthya soft coral

Silo 2

The dive sites

Seven sites, with depths, currents and what each is known for.

A pale sandbar surfacing in shallow turquoise water, with a jungle-covered island beyond

Silo 5

Safety and standards

Certification bar, ratios, oxygen and the insurance you must carry.

Sunset over the karst islands and still lagoons of Piaynemo, the sky burning orange above the ridgeline

Ready when you are

Send Us the Month

That is genuinely enough to start. Everything else we can work out between us.