Text and photos by Mary L. Peachin, Bill Kimball, David Lovitt, Cameron Azad, and Alan Lawlor
Vol. 11 No. 2
Diving in murky water just didn’t make sense. Surely, this wouldn’t appeal to wall cruisin’ big animal lovers. Inexplicably, experts flock to Lembeh Strait, renown for its silt-like black lava sand muck diving. Why descend 20-30 feet into water filled with stinging hydroids, and God knows what else, to scan a bottom covered with junk and scattered trash, a dozen varieties of empty bottles of beer, old fish nets and bamboo traps, discarded rice bags, and, perhaps, a coral bommie here and there?