Dive sites in Indonesia

Fukui Point Pulau Bunaken, Indonesia

Slope completely covered with foliose and branching hard corals. You can also find many giant barrel sponges and giant clams. Here there are many schooling fishes like spadefish, black snappers, black fin barracuda, trevally, sweet lips, large trigger fishes and garden eels on the bottom. Some claim…

Gamat Nusa Penida, Indonesia

Toyapakeh strait current may be very strong sometimes; take care!

Han's Reef Gili Air, Indonesia

Hans Reef is located on the north tip of Gili Air, and consists of various sized bommies and rocky outcrops dispersed over a sandy slope. Hans reef is suitable for all diver levels. The variety of marine life ranges from Nudibranchs, Mantis Shrimp and Pipefish, to Frogfish, Scorpionfish and Moray…

Gili Biaha Amuk Bay, Indonesia

The south of the island has a great black wall; but take care of the swell & current! The eastern side of the island is really nice.

Bounty Wreck Gili Meno, Indonesia

The wreck is covered with soft coral and also harder coral ( Acropora Florida, Acropora Pormosa, Acropora Nobilis ). There is also a variety of fish, The depth is around 13-16 meter. Visibilty is always good here: around 20 meters. The fish families you can find here are Sweet Lips ( Haemulidae ),…

Meno Slope Gili Meno, Indonesia

A drift dive along Meno slope is usually quite a joy ride. You will drop into the channel between Gili Trawangan and Gili Meno and descend to the bottom of the sloping reef at 22m. The average depth for the rest of the dive will be 16m, so this site is perfect for all certification levels. Towards…

Meno Wall Gili Meno, Indonesia

This is a steeply sloping reef with a near-vertical top section. The reef drops to a sandy bottom at about 22m, and follows the contours of Gili Meno’s shore quite closely. Soft corals grow all along reef. There is a great deal of older, dead coral over which the soft forms have regrown,…

Gili Tepekong - The Canyon Amuk Bay, Indonesia

Coral Arks Gili Trawangan, Indonesia

1-2-dive.com artificial reef was built by the intructor team of 1-2-dive.com? begin from the beach, few fins kicks you arrive on the 10*2m artificial reef, possibility to regrow and regeneration of coral? after you just follow the nice slope to the bottom of the channel, around 35m, with barrelled…

Coral Fan Gili Trawangan, Indonesia

This site got its name for its abundance of large, white-polyped Gorgonian fan-coral with bright-red skeletons. They grow on the big coral bommies of this sites shallow reeftop. You'll find other types of hard coral spread along the bottom at 5 to 7 meters, surrounded by lots of reef and tropical…

Deep Turbo Gili Trawangan, Indonesia

A huge dive site available to divers with deep dive experience. An abundance of large coral “bommies” or hills covered in soft and hard corals, Deep Turbo will interest divers as exploring the reef and its marine life makes for a fascinating dive. The majority of the dive is around 20-30…

Manta Point Gili Trawangan, Indonesia

Manta Point is generally an easy dive site, sometimes the current gives you a fine drift. The best season to see Mantas, is from March to May, though February and June also offer good possibilities to see them. Mantas can be seen sporadically year-round. 17 Mantas have been seen here at one time.The…

Gili Air Wall Gili Air, Indonesia

AirWall, to the west of Gili Air, is a very beautiful wallthat, due to the soft coral cover, shines yellow-orangedepending on the position of the sun. The highlight of thiswall is a coral block at 22m in which Leaf Fish (ScorpionFish) make their "home", surrounded by shrimps, Pipe Fish,White-banded…

Sunset Reef Gili Trawangan, Indonesia

This site is a gently sloping reef. A large portion of it is marked by giant steps of table Acropora coral, shelving off down the slope. There are isolated heads of hard coral and outcrops with good, even coverage of soft corals. The reef ends in a sandy bottom beyond about 20m and has a flat reef…

Gladden Corner Raja Ampat, Indonesia

Usually can find reeffish such as sweetlips, snapper,butterflyfish. Bigfish like malabar grouper, blacktip shark, barracudas also Bumphead parrot fish. Unusual critter like ghost pipefish, pygmy seahorse and colorfush nudibranch.Coral reef is healthy and consist branching coral, massive and foliose…

Gorango Pulau Bunaken, Indonesia

Wall with many cracks and canyons. Reef flat exposed to waves adn currents (Beware of strong currents). There is huge massive corals. Typical reef life can be seen as well as schools of bumphead parrotfish and napoleon wrasse.

GT Rock Triton Bay, Indonesia

GT Rock (GT stand for giant trevally)is a divesite in the Triton Bay, Irian Jaya.Diving is around a rock island.The quality of the diving at this site can vary a lot depending on the current. If there is enough current the is plenty of big fish (including giant trevallys).If there is no current the…

House Reef Wakatobi, Indonesia

Hukurila Canyon Ambon Bay, Indonesia

Hukurila Canyon is a site on the sout coast of Ambon.The dive starts through a canyon which ends in a nice big cave with nice fans, coral and sponges. After the canyon and the cave the dive continues with a wall.In terms of landscape this is IMHO the nicest site on the south coast.

Indonor Wreck Central Java, Indonesia

This boat sunk on February 7, 1960. a more than 30 meters long and 12 meters height of steel ship.Kapal Indonor tenggelam di kepulauan Karimunjawa, Indonesia pada tanggal 7 Pebruari 1960 saat berlayar dari Palembang dengan tujuan Surabaya mengangkut batubara.

Jalan Masuk Pulau Bunaken, Indonesia

Very wide and beautiful reef flat populated with hard corals, ending in a wall in a large step. Often very strong currents. Easy to encounter bluespotted stingrays, trevally and schools of bumphead parrotfish.

Jangka Point Nusa Penida, Indonesia

Gradual slope with good corals.

Jellyfish Lake Kakaban, Indonesia

In the middle ofthis island there is a mangrove fringed lake, slightly above sea level,where thousandsof non-stinging jellyfish live. The jellyfish consist of fourdifferent species.They are non stinging, having lost their natural defense systembecause of thelack of major predators in the lake. This…

Kapal Budak Menjangan island, Indonesia

Wooden cargo of 19th century. The anchor lies in 6-8 m (so it's name).

Katy Rock Triton Bay, Indonesia

Katy Rock is another dive site discovered by Larry Smith.The dive site is around a small rock island with a swim through close to the surface. We spotted a lot of marco life

Kisik Pegemetan Pemuteran, Indonesia

Quiet shallow bay with strange species.

Laha Ambon Bay, Indonesia

Laha / Twilight zone is a muck diving site in the bay of Ambon, Indonesia.The site offers a wide range of macro creatures, frog fish, some bat fish, many moray eels and a shoal of scatfish.Since this site is under some piers where fishing boats are loaded and unloaded it can get very load under…

Lekuan I Pulau Bunaken, Indonesia

Vertical winding walls with cracks and canyons on it. Thre's often strong currents, so it usually is a good drift dive. It's shelteref from waves. Along this wall is easy to find many huge schools of plankton feeders: fusilliers, butterfly fishes, banner fishes and damsel fishes. The corals in this…

Lekuan II Pulau Bunaken, Indonesia

Continuation of Lekuan I:same vertical winding walls with cracks and canyons on it. Thre's often strong currents (beware: some of them are downward currents!!), so it usually is a good drift dive. In this side of the wall it's easy to find angelfishes, red tooth trigger fish, and a school of black…

Lekuan III Pulau Bunaken, Indonesia

It continues the wall, but in this side there are some caves and a sandy bottom. Here it's easy to encounter black tips and white tip reef sharks, as well as barracudas, napoleon wrasse and turtles.

Lighthouse Reef Sangalaki, Indonesia

A cool dive compared to other drift dives of the reef! Nice marine sea life; good for snorkeling. And close to the main dive site to see mantas!

Lipah Bay Amed, Indonesia

A wreck between 6 and 10 m deep. The best area is after the wreck between 15 and 30 m deep: Soft corals, gorgonians, staghorn corals etc.

Malibu Point Nusa Penida, Indonesia

This is the best place to meet sharks on Nusa Penida.

Maluku Divers House Reef Ambon Bay, Indonesia

The house reef of Maluku divers is located in front of the dive base in a village named Latuhalat on the south coast of Ambon.This dive spot is also a very good site for night diving. If you're lucky you might spot a very curious octopus on this site (for about 15min it put up big big show for us).…

Mandolin Pulau Bunaken, Indonesia

Vertical wall in large steps with small caves down depper. The reef on top is very interesting and varied. Beware that there is often strong currents, what makes it a perfect drift dive with turtles, shark, eagle ray, fusilier, moray eels etc. Here is easy to find black coral, large gorgonian fans,…

Manta Avenue Sangalaki, Indonesia

Drift dive or even better snorkel between 4 and 5 pm! You'll drift down all the way to Manta Run and the boat can pick you up at Sandy Ridge. Be careful not to drift to far into the deep. Stay close to the shallow parts o the reef - there's a lot more interesting stuff to see. It's a great place to…

Manta Parade Sangalaki, Indonesia

Drift Dive with mantas and a nice reef in the shallows.Here manta rays come from all directions, their wing tipsbreaking the surface at regular intervals and circle around you. Theypreferto swim close to the surface, so actually snorkeling is also a goodway to interactwith them. They congregate here…

Manta Run Sangalaki, Indonesia

Mantas - MANY Mantas! Start the dive at Manta Parade and drift down all the way to Manta Run. Best time of the day: Between 4 and 5 pm. Try to drift where the water is only 10m deep when the sun is sending rays of warm yellow evening light through the surface. You'll see billions of iridescent blue…

Maratua Channel Maratua, Indonesia

Usually you will enter the channel at the end of a drift dive coming from Small Fish Country. You can rest a while at the lower rim of the channels entrance at "Big Fish Country".Dive only at beginning high tide when the current is flowing into the lagoon. Sometimes 6+ knots current! Try reef hooks…

Maratua Jellyfish Lakes Maratua, Indonesia

Not too many people have yet visitet these lakes. They are smaller than the one on Kakaben but the species differ in color from the jellyfish on kakaben island. Watch out - there might still be some saltwater crocks inside.

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