Mobile: Diving Flores with Ankermi Happy Dive in Maumere

The Dive Center “Happy Dive” exists since 1998, is part of the Ankermi Resort and was founded by Kermi, Javanese origin (PADI Divemaster) and Claudia, a Swiss (OWSI PADI Instructor).

At our new location in Watumita we built, based on years of experience and knowledge, a comfortable Dive Shop. You have easy access to the equipment, a large classroom area, dive books and identification guides within easy reach and a large area to clean and store the dive equipment. The equipment you will use on your dives is well maintained, complete, clean and tidy.

All dives in the area are also suitable for beginners or intermediate divers, but for safety we always check if the current is not too strong before we dive. All dives are no-decompression and are based on the Resorts Padi’s Recreational Dive Planner and computer printout.

Muck diving close to the resort is none restrictive on time, it only depends on your air supply and consumption. Kermi is a fanatic underwater photographer and can show you some rare critters, he is only too happy to advice you and give handy tips and information about photography and the marine life here.

SCUBA DIVING TRIPS

There are nearly 30 different dive sites around Maumere Bay and the islands. For dives to the islands we leave early in the morning and go by boat to Pulau Babi, Besar and Pangabatang. These islands can be seen from Ankermi's Resort and it takes us about one hour to reach them. Around the islands there is a great selection of walls, drop offs, slopes, channels and platforms overgrown with hard and soft coral which are the habitat for a large number of fish and other marine animals.

Just around the corner from the Ankermi Happy Dive Resort there are several areas for ‘Muck’ diving - searching for rare, strange critters which are living in the sand and mud. A Japanese shipwreck from the Second World War is reached by foot prior to the dive or with the ‘Happy Dive’ motorized canoe.

DIVE SAFETY

The next recompression chambers (deco chambers) are in Bali and Makassar (Ujung Pandang, Sulawesi) and oxygen is only sometimes available here in Maumere. Please keep this in mind and only do no-decompression dives!

BOAT

We work together with the local fishermen and use their approximate 9m long wooden boats. We are pleased to give them a chance to also make a living from tourism. We have been working with our captain now for 6 years and he is very trustful and knows exactly where the dive sites are located and where the divers will exit after their dive and also knows how to help the divers to handle the dive equipment.

EQUIPMENT/ COMPRESSOR

We have eight sets of diving equipment and 20 tanks, all is well maintained.
We have a Bauer Compressor, Sea Quest BCD’s, Aqualung first- and seconds stages, Suunto gauges, Technisup masks and fins (mainly).
We have Luxfer tanks in Aluminum and enough weight belts and lead to use.
We use the international adaptors; we have no DIN for the first stages (please bring along an adapter).

PADI DIVE COURSES

Happy Dive Center offers PADI Dive Courses, Claudia is a Swiss OWSI PADI Instructor and teaches the courses in English or German. We certify from beginner levels (Open Water) up to Divemaster level. We have PADI Course books in English, German, French and Dutch, but if you make your course bookings early enough, we can order books in other languages.

SNORKELING

We offer snorkeling trips out to the island of Pangahbatan and Babi. You leave Ankermi Resort in the morning, snorkel all you want , eat the lunch on the beach, snorkel some more and then arrive back in the late afternoon. The coral reefs here are quite pretty with colorful reef fish and corals and with luck you can also see turtles, sharks, mackerels, rays and possibly bumphead parrotfishes.

You can also snorkel just outside our resort on a small coral reef or about 300m away on a patch reef in Ankermis Bay. Both reefs are quite small and an area to do muck snorkeling.

Photos from our Dive Center

Address:
Ankermi - Happy Dive
Watumita, Flores, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia

For information or bookings please e-mail us ( ). If you don‘t get a reply in 2 days, try again, the mail might have been lost or we can’t connect to the internet....
Mobile phone number - IMPORTANT - please send SMS (text message), don't phone: +62-812 466 96 67
We speak English / Wir sprechen Deutsch (und Schwiizerdütsch!) / Berbicara Bahasa Indonesia

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Ankermi Happy Dive Center

The Diving in Maumere, Flores