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Best dive guide in Bali!
I have known Putu for many years and we have numerous dives together. He is one of the absolute best divers I know, and his skills for finding the itsy-bitsy macro creatures always amazes me. No frog fish or camouflaged animal can hide from Putu. If they are there, Putu’s trained eyes will spot them and he points them out for you.
Putu is also a brilliant driver. I have no problem taking naps in the car 🙂– Christine Pettersen, Denmark
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Shana Mandel
January 12, 2016
My husband and I spent the last two days diving with Putu; he can’t be beat! My husband is certified but I am not and Putu saw to it that both of us had the best dives possible for our respective capabilities. He has an extemely keen eye for spotting wildlife and he speaks extremely clear, comprehensive and proper English. He even made the effort to write out on an underwater board the names of the various species we spotted! Putu absolutely MADE our honeymoon trip to Menganjan and we are so grateful to him! He is kind, fun, patient and knowledgeable to boot. Do yourself a favor and dive with Putu!
Marc
January 12, 2016
Putu took me on four dives around Menjangan Island while I was staying at The Menjangan Resort. He was enthusiastic, helpful and very knowledgable about diving and aquatic life. He has a keen eye for spotting camouflaged species and was quick to point them out, even writing their names on an underwater slate. If you are carrying photo gear, he will help you make the most of it. A great experience over all and one which I look forward to repeating.
-Marc
えるみ
February 25, 2016
間違いなくバリでNo1のダイバー！
アドバンスの頃からお世話になって、インストラクターになった今も彼と潜る時は驚きと感動が必ず待っています。
初心者から上級者まで誰もが楽しめるダイビングをいつもプラニングしてくれます。
日本語が完璧なので、安心感もバッチリで、陸ではバリの文化や気になったことを丁寧に教えてくれます。
ペニダ島もトゥランベンもムンジャンガンも知り尽くしているので、数日間のサファリを彼と回ればバリの海も陸も一層好きになること間違いないです。
Geoff. Cranenburgh
March 3, 2016
I met Putu on the 26th of April 2014 and again, more recently on the 15th. of February 2016. The fourteen dives at Menjangan were by far the most exciting dives I’ve ever been on.
Putu has an uncanny ability to spot rare marine life, regardless of how small or how far away they are. To name but three of many, he spotted no less than three Pygmy Sea Horses, two Electric Clams and a Pegasus Sea-Moth. So rare in fact is the latter that not only is this little critter listed by the IUCN as vulnerable but a diver could go through a lifetime of muck-diving and never see one. What was more uncanny was his ability to do this without losing his position in the water. Putu might as well have been sitting in an armchair, looking for marine life with one eye and watching us with the other.
A Ghost Shrimp is not only tiny but also, well, totally transparent, except for the odd splash of blue. To spot it living its anonymous life amongst the tentacles of Sea Anemones, the same habitat as the boisterous Clown Fish, is nigh on impossible, except that is, for Putu. Not only did he spot it, but he was as excited about seeing this recluse as I was, as though he too had seen it for the first time.
Putu made sure that we did not neglect our diving responsibilities. When we strayed too low or floated too high or drifted too far from a wall, a tap on the tank followed by the appropriate signal indicated that he meant business. You could set the time on your watch by the interval between him asking us to check our air.
Good dive management is validated by its dive profile. Putu’s dive profiles are textbook. The only difference is that each dive is managed without you knowing it. On every dive, he led us quickly to deepest allowable limit, stayed there no longer than allowable then moved steadily but surely to the shallows. This is where experience matters and makes a difference. The adage of “plan the dive and dive the plan” is the norm with Putu. It is with Putu that I have set two personal bests, my deepest dive and my longest dive.
It is not to say that Putu let the discipline of diving take control of the dive. We were free to express our curiosity and sense of adventure but in a safe manner. Normally the safety stop is just that, a stop. It is usually the point at which one tends to spend three minutes of your life hanging around at five meters, practicing buoyancy or yoga or whatever form of therapy that was in fashion at the time. Not so with Putu. The safety “stop” is three minutes where you don’t actually stop. You are still looking and exploring, even in the shallows. I recall the end of our last dive, spending three minutes facing off with two cuttlefish; long enough to notice those two pairs of dark circled eyes more contemplative of me than I of them.
To me, diving with Putu is essentially about exploring the edges of your own, self-imposed diving boundaries in a remarkable environment, regardless of and well within your diving abilities. When you reach the safety “stop” it’s sort of like peering over a fence out into the unknown, knowing that on the next dive the boundary will have been moved by Putu from where you last saw it to somewhere further out. At the end of the next dive you find yourself looking over a new fence, wondering where the next boundary will be Whether reaching it is possible is what the waiting is all about. Thank you Putu for already setting that next boundary for me. I just need to make sure that my technical training and abilities can meet that next challenge which I am very much looking forward to.
Roy Curtis
September 1, 2016
Just returned from Bali, what an interesting and amazing place!
As part of our trip and not having dived for about 20 years, I decided to refresh and take the PADI Open Water Diving course with my now grownup children. Putu’s delivery was friendly and professional. His teaching was very clear and precise, intensive but made meaningful and enjoyable. The experience culminated with two amazing dives with Putu off Menjangan, his ability to spot so much marine life whilst also keeping the three of us informed and safe was impeccable. Recommend if diving in Bali or intending to learn to dive, check this guy out!