Amare Divers

Amare Divers is a dive centre in Labuan Bajo, a five-minute walk from the harbour and the gateway to Komodo National Park. It runs its own boat, its own gear and its own kitchen, so that the day flows the way diving should.

Small groups, real attention

The co-founders spent more than a decade running dives across Indonesia before opening Amare. Everything here comes from being the diver who wished one small thing was different: the briefings timed around the tides, the fresh-water rinse, the hot lunch cooked between dives. Groups are capped at four divers to a guide and matched by certification level.

Three ways to dive Komodo

First-timers can try diving without a licence: one day, two dives, an instructor close by. Certified divers join daily trips to sites such as Manta Point, Batu Bolong, Castle Rock and The Cauldron. Those who want more days sleep on the water aboard the liveaboard Maria Seascape, with routes of two to four days and up to thirteen dives.

The day is only as good as the people on the boat.

Giving back to the reef

Amare runs a coral restoration program in and around the park. Guests learn to grow coral on nursery frames and plant it on damaged reef, and leave with the GPS position of the coral they planted.