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Dive Timor Lorosae is Timor Leste’s premier PADI 5 Star IDC Dive Centre offering a full range of friendly and professional PADI dive courses and daily diving trips on the beautiful tropical coral reefs that surround Timor Leste!
Why dive Timor Leste? - As the newest country in Asia, Timor Leste has easy access to some of the most recently discovered and least explored diving in the region! Making up the southern section of the Coral Triangle, Timor is home to a massive diversity of coral and fish species. The best thing is that the fringing reef across the northern coast is easily accessible from the shore often beginning only a few meters from the water’s edge. Dolphins call the Timorese waters home as well as migrating whales for several months of the year. Diving in Timor Leste gives you a chance to see everything from exciting Hammerhead Sharks and endangered Dugongs to interesting critters like Frogfish and Ghost Pipefish!
Why dive with DTL? - Dive Timor Lorosae (DTL) was established in 2002 by Mark Mialszygrosz. After traveling, exploring and scuba diving the country since 2000 he set up Timor's first PADI dive centre and has strived to set and maintain the standard for scuba dive travel, scuba dive training and scuba dive tourism within Timor Leste. Despite growing to become a PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Centre, DTL focuses on friendly and personable service while providing safe quality diver training at all levels.
DTL's range of services includes;
-PADI Scuba Diving Courses from Beginner to Instructor Level
-Daily Dive & Snorkeling Trips
-Boat Charters; Diving, Fishing, Dolphin & Whale Watching
-Scuba Equipment Sales, Retail & Servicing
-Castaway Bar & Restaurant
-Airport transfers & Guided City Tours
Looking for a Hotel in Timor? - DTL also have our own Hotel accommodation, Guest House accommodation and Backpacker accommodation. All with free internet and western modern facilities and all located in central Dili on the beach front!
Get in contact with us now to book your scuba course, dive trips or accommodation! info@divetimor.com |
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Recent Coast Diving with DTL [
Saturday, 18 May 2013 ]
It has been a few weeks of frenzied activity here at DTL – especially when it comes to coast diving!
In Timor Leste we’re fortunate enough to have some stunning dive sites as you drive eastwards from Dili along the coast road. All these coast dives showcase Timor’s abundant coral and fish life in glorious technicolour, and are a mix of dramatic, pristine walls and huge coral gardens simply covered in exciting life to explore. And all these are accessible to PADI Open Water and Advanced Open Water divers.
In the last two weeks we have visited so many sites, including Dirt Track – one of our favourite dives. Dirt Track is particularly special as not only is the slope into the depths ablaze with countless corals, but if you’re really lucky you might even catch a glimpse of mantas, or even a hammerhead shark! Our Tec divers reported seeing whip corals over three metres long as well as two huge bommies even deeper than the 50 metres they were diving.
We’ve also been spending time at
Secret Garden, K41 and K57. These sites have huge, untouched walls as far as you can see, all teeming with hundreds of different species of coral. At K57 the drop-off is so close to the land you can take a giant stride right off the beach and straight down the wall!
Lone Tree also has one very special highlight – the apparently endless anemone. Starting in the shallows, it continues on for metre upon metre and eventually dropping off down over the edge of the slope. It’s home to dozens of families of clown fish and has to be seen to be believed!
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Check out The Hummingfish Foundation's new website. The Hummingfish Foundation, which is essentially an environmental protection organization is designed to protect the earth's unspoiled natural environments by "adding value to nature" itself through sustainable community-based nature tourism (diving, bird watching, trekking, etc).
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About Indopacificimages.com – Underwater photographer and writer Don Silcock is a big fan of Timor Leste and his website is a great place to find an interesting explanation of why the scuba diving is so good plus great descriptions of some of the best dive sites and superb image galleries of what you will see there. |
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