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Divers cut away the deteriorated raft and clamped an eight-armed "spider" over the turret. The turret was then placed on a support platform, and the whole assembly was raised.
The next morning, our first day of sailing, dawned brilliant and warm. As the sun rose higher, a stiff breeze rolled over the hills of Selayar, and the crew prepared to cast off. The passengers watched rapt as the five-man crew pulled lines taut and the two green and...
These walls off Selayar can be explored solely by scuba divers. The seafloor starts its descent to the continental shelf a few meters below the waves, then rapidly turns vertical and beyond the reach of even the most deep-lunged of snorkelers. The sensation during that first wall dive is...
The islands are in fact the tail end of the Arakan Yoma mountain range. The submerged peaks cover a 1,000-km arc from Burma to Sumatra, surrounded on all sides by deep ocean. Divers and snorkelers can swim with all the usual reef crowd?butterfly fish, blue napoleons, sea...
Perhaps because they are so remote, the reefs are relatively unvisited; divers are more likely to meet a manta ray than another human. Almost all the scuba shops are based in Port Blair, and while there are a number of interesting dive sites in the vicinity, the capital is hardly...