Guests are required to carry an SMB (surface marker buoy), Mini Strobe and a Dive Alert on EVERY DIVE. We have all of this equipment for rental and purchase, however we recommend you have your own before the start of your cruise. Guests will be shown how to fit and use this equipment correctly during the dive procedures briefing at the beginning of your cruise.
Qualified guests will be shown the location of the Ombak Biru’s First Aid Kit and the O2 units. If there are guests on board who have training in either First Aid and/or O2 administration they are encouraged to identify themselves and to act accordingly in the event of an emergency and there are no dive crew immediately available.
Please be aware you will sometimes be diving in some very remote locations. The nearest working recompression chambers to the Ombak Biru’s normal operating areas are in Denpasar, Bali and at the public hospital and in Mataram, Lombok. To reach either will require the use of emergency air evacuation, which is not always available. With this in mind, please plan and execute your dives safely and carefully.
Diving in Komodo is sometimes subject to wild temperature fluctuations. While most of the time a 3mm wetsuit is fine for the 30 degrees Celsius water temperature this can drop by 10 degrees over a short period of time. We think that a 5mm suit is a better all round choice.
A good pair of walking shoes is also a good idea, particularly for the Komodo cruises. We try to get on land as much as possible but some of our hikes are strenuous and cover rocky terrain.