Shotgun

Shotgun is northern Komodo's amusement-park dive with substance. It starts sedately in a sandy bowl where garden eels sway and white-tip sharks rest, then the channel between the two Gili Lawa islands narrows, the flood tide gathers, and divers are fired up over the lip of the Cauldron in a few weightless seconds, hence the name. Mantas often feed in the accelerated water at the north end, holding effortlessly where divers must hook or drift, and trevally use the funnel as a hunting lane. Done on the right tide it is exhilarating and controlled; on the wrong one it is simply off the menu. The finish is a gentle coral slope where the adrenaline wears off.

您此行的高光时刻: The ride through the funnel; mantas feeding in the stream; garden-eel bowl and hunting trevally.

地形地貌: Sandy amphitheater and bowl between Gili Lawa Darat and Gili Lawa Laut, necking into a shallow channel.

水流: The dive is the current: a controlled flight through the narrowing channel, flown on the flood with a guide who knows the exits.

危险因素: Accelerating current with topography-driven eddies; equalize early, protect gauges, and keep off the bottom in the neck.

高氧（Nitrox）: 在此值得使用——各潜点深度落在富氧空气（nitrox）能有效延长免减压时间的区间（前提是持有相应认证）。