Dive sites in Indonesia

Alam Batu Housreef Tulamben, Indonesia

Alung Banua Pulau Bunaken, Indonesia

Vertical wall with many cracks and crevices and interesting small caves. Sheltered from waves and currents. Here you can find mainly reef fishes and many shrimp gobies, scorpion fish and large school of black snappers. It is also tipycal to find nudibranches among the hard and soft coral.

B24 Liberator Togian Islands, Indonesia

The B24 Liberator wreck lies on flat sandy ground in depth of about 22m on the south coast of the Togian islands. Since there are a lot of Mangroves close by, the visibility is usually quite bad.The airplane wreck ist still in very good shape and almost completely intact. In the cockpit you can see…

Bango Pulau Bunaken, Indonesia

Slope with outstanding soft corals

Barracuda point Pulau Bunaken, Indonesia

Great wall and huge blackfin barracudas shoals, , jacks, tunas and occasionally grey sharks and hammerhead sharks.

Barracuda point Kakaban, Indonesia

This is a steep wall, where thecurrent brings large pelagics like whitetip sharks, leopard sharks,jacks, tunas,barracudas, snappers, trevally and of course a large school ofbarracudas. Youcan do a drift dive but a grab line has been permanently secured at 24m acrossa relatively flat area on the…

Bat Cave Menjangan island, Indonesia

Batee Meuduro Pulau Weh, Indonesia

The best dive site!

Batu Abah Nusa Penida, Indonesia

Pelagics.

Batu Kapal Pulau Bunaken, Indonesia

This is a huge underwater pinnacle divided from the reef by a deep canyon. The interesting part of this dive starts at 40m deep; it is for very advanced divers ONLY. The caves are near 60m deep.The reef around is also nice, some dolphins or pilot whales may be seen.

Batu Kapal Pulau Lembeh, Indonesia

These are a set of pinnacles off the Northern tip of Lembeh Island. This is the best big fish dive in North Sulawesi, but severe multi-directional currents prevent all but only the most experienced divers from venturing here. The density of schooling fish is staggering, with larger species such as…

Batu Lumbung Nusa Penida, Indonesia

Pelagics

Batu Meling Nusa Penida, Indonesia

Pelagics.

Bimoli wreck Pulau Lembeh, Indonesia

This is a Japanese WW2 wreck lying in front of what is now the Bimoli cooking oil factory. It was at anchor carrying munitions when it was blown up by torpedoes launched by an attacking US submarine (the USS Swordfish), causing the munitions to blow the aft end completely apart, which now is a pile…

Blue light cave Kakaban, Indonesia

This dive is only for experienceddivers, since you normally dive down quite deep to exit the cave. Thecave startsat a hole on the top of the wall (2 m deep at low tide) and descends through anarrow chimney.At about 21m the chimney opens into a large cavern with the bottom at30 m.You swim along the…

Bunaken Fukui Pulau Bunaken, Indonesia

At this dive site you can practically always see a large group of mackerels and batfish but also sometimes barracudas and shark. Coral cover is not so nice, specially around the 5 giant tridacna shells (giant clams) it is badly broken, but it is still a very nice place to dive because of the large…

Bunaken Timur 1 Pulau Bunaken, Indonesia

Vertical wall in large steps with many cracks and small caves. Reef slightly damaged in some parts. It is a good area for snorkelling. Here you can find many soft coral and black coral, gorgonians and the typical reef fishes.

Bunaken Timur 2 Pulau Bunaken, Indonesia

Continuation of the vertical wall in Bunaken Timur 1, with similar ecosystem.

Buyuk Nusa Penida, Indonesia

The best dive site of the North Nusa Penida dive sites. Great staghorn corals and pelagics.

California Dreaming Pulau Lembeh, Indonesia

A stunning site. This is a seamount out from the island of Pulau Putus. Twin peaks with a rubble/sand flat in between, the shallows are good for giant Frogfish and Boxer Crabs and there is a busy cleaning station which offers much to see, including Leaf Scorpionfishes. The Coral slopes down on both…

Canyons Nusa Penida, Indonesia

Extremely difficult and seldom dived.Best when there's a relatively light current from the N.Use more weight than normal.Enter 300m to the N of dive site in blue water, descending rapidly.The current is always strong here and will actually try to push you up the reef into shallower water and often…

Cape Bira Bira, Indonesia

Drop off in 25 m. Little coral growth due to strong currents at this site. There are usually white tips around, sometimes also Grey Reef Sharks. When the water is cold (July/August) there is also a chance to see hammerheads. This is no dive for beginners.

Cape Kri Raja Ampat, Indonesia

It's only 5 minutes away from the resort at the north-easterntip of the island. There are always strong currents at this spotand theusual bunch of predators is passing by or waiting in the blue.We sawduring every dive many dogtooth tunas, jacks, giant trevallies,barracudas,big napoleon wrasses and a…

Cave Point Menjangan island, Indonesia

Overhang near 18m deep covered with soft corals and gorgonians.

Cela Cela Pulau Bunaken, Indonesia

This is a vertical wall, with many cracks and crevices. Very sheltered from waves and currents. It makes it for a good night dive. Here you can find many different shapes of hard and soft corals as well as feather stars and the common reef fishes, like butterfly and parrotfish. Ocassionaly you can…

Ceningan Channel Nusa Penida, Indonesia

Channel Entrance Sangalaki, Indonesia

Close Encounters Pemuteran, Indonesia

Close Encounters, a long three-sided reef, of which two sides are very good for diving, while the third side of a large sandy slope exists. Two kilometers from the beach, the reef has steep slopes, resulting in a flat up top, which at its deepest point is 12 m and rises up to 3 to 4 m. The slope…

Coral Garden Tulamben, Indonesia

very good for night dives

Coral Garden Menjangan island, Indonesia

Coral Gardens Sangalaki, Indonesia

Just go to the west from the channel and stop at the reef. You'll see some turtles and some blacktipsharks maybe.

Cornucopia Wakatobi, Indonesia

Excellent dive. Gread wall full of corals.

Critter Circus Pulau Bunaken, Indonesia

Sandy area with coral blocks and artificial structures. This is a very rich marine life including squids, Mandarin dragonets, Black Harlequin ghostfishes, etc.

Dalton Point Pulau Bunaken, Indonesia

Disney Land Triton Bay, Indonesia

Disney Land is a good dive at Triton bay. The spot was, like most other spots at Triton bay, originally discovered by Larry Smith.You dive around a small rock island. A good part of the area is covered by lots a black coral which are a good hiding place for many sweetlips. There is also a good…

Divers Loge Lembeh House Reef Pulau Lembeh, Indonesia

The main attraction at the House Reef of Divers Lodge Lembeh is a area with a lot of coral debris in a depth of about 6m which is inhabited by a large number of Mandarin fish. They are most active during dawn.On the deeper parts of the reef there are also other interesting animals like ornate…

Eel Garden Menjangan island, Indonesia

You can do a slow drift dive along the western reef (starting from north and ending at eel garden).

Eel Ridge Sangalaki, Indonesia

Cool place for Macro photography and night diving! Giant clams, cuttlefish and lots of critters.

Emerald bay Tulamben, Indonesia

A Toyota wreck and a lot of japaneese divers and snorklers.

Ental Point Nusa Penida, Indonesia

Good place to meet pelagics, including Molas.

Dive in Indonesia