Dive Review of Blue Rose Divers/Santai Beach Resort in
Indonesia/Ambon

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Blue Rose Divers/Santai Beach Resort, Oct, 2009, by Ken Tucker, CA, US ( 2 reports with 3 Helpful votes). Report 5948.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	If you are looking for a boutique dive destination, this is not it. However, the dive operation [if you have own gear] is very good. Excellent guides, fast, comfortable speed boats, few rules, lots to photograph. This place tends to be overlooked, and sometimes you may be only person diving. It deserves more attention. Schedules are relaxed, dictated by divers, and site selection open to discussion. The guide will do his best to find whatever you are seeking, then come find you. Very conscientious. It's a place worthy of consideration. All divers I met there were experienced, with at least a few hundred dives, usually quite more. Weather was good, waters were flat, little running current. Would not be too difficult for newer diver. On boat we would usually have one guide and up to 5 divers, usually less. No buddy teams, each diver did his own thing, with guide hunting and seeking us out when finding creatures of note. Place is right on beach, in a cove where local children swim and play. It's like an old strip motel, with a half dozen rooms. They are spartan, though with aircon, cold running water. Some power outages. No internet, except in office. Meals are family style, and you eat what the staff eats, unless you arrange for something otherwise. Meals prepared by wife of one of staff. Traditional way of cooking there is to prepare all the meals in morning,in stacked pots with lid on top and setting aside for the day. A couple of times we asked for, and got lobster, which was quite good. Breakfast quite simple eggs and bread, or bread and eggs. No toast, no toasters. Can buy cereal and milk in town and keep in shop refrigerator. Grocery store in Ambon well stocked and has Guinness! Perhaps the cheapest place I have ever gone diving. It's very quiet, relaxing, low key. Also spent time at the trendy Cape Paperu resort, but that's another story. There is restaurant of sorts in village. Though I did not try, an Australian there thought food was great, with dinner being $0.50. Little else around the place, not like a popular tourist destination. The place is very quiet, relaxing, low key. Did not check rental gear. likely not much. No shop or gear for sale. Did not find the weird Ambon frogfish, but many other typical muck destination creatures. Water clearer than you comes to mind when you think of muck diving. Photographed my first blue-ring octopus here, as well as a number of nudibranch. Quite honestly, unless it's something odd, I pay little attention. Nothing big, nor did I look for such. Misc of note: pygmy seahorses, flambuoyant cuttlefish,seamoths, zzebra crabs, harlequin shrimp, flower urchins Different species photographed, total: 115 Nudibranch: 81 [numerous uncatalogued] Fish: 16 Cuttlefish: 1 Crustacea: 10 Worms: 3 Cowries & snails: 3 Corals: 1
Websites	Blue Rose Divers
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Indonesia, Philippines, Fiji, Solomons, Vanuatu, California coast, Costa Rica, Mexico, Bonaire, Grand Cayman
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm, no currents
Water Temp	79-83°F / 26-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-80 Ft/ 15-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Come up when out of air, solo ok
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	no
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	No rinse tanks on boat, no camera work area on boat or at dive operation. Plenty of space on boats for setting down cameras. Cameras carefully handled.

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Dive Review of Blue Rose Divers/Santai Beach Resort in Indonesia/Ambon

Blue Rose Divers/Santai Beach Resort, Oct, 2009,

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Reporter and Travel

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Dive Review of Blue Rose Divers/Santai Beach Resort in
Indonesia/Ambon