INDONESIA DIVING CRUISES - DIVE SITE INFORMATION

NORTH SULAWESI DIVESITES

Lembeh Strait

HAIRBALL ONE, HAIRBALL TOO! & RETAK LARRY
Diving Depth: 0-100ft / 0-30m. Gently sloping black sand/mud bottom with hair-like algae and hard coral patches. A journey to the weird and wonderful!

Hairy Frogfish with Lure Showing

NUDI FALLS, MAGIC CRACK & NUDI RETREAT
Diving Depth: 0-100ft / 0-30m. Gently sloping rocky reefs with plenty of soft corals, fans, leather corals, anemones, hard corals and algae with black sandy patches in-between. The best of both worlds; beautiful healthy coral reef AND lots of critters.

Marine Life: pigmy sea horses, halimeda and harlequin ghost pipe fishes, Banggai cardinal fishes, Pegasus fish (sea moths), many nudibranchs and flat worms, leaf scorpion fishes, winged pipe fish, long snout pipe fish, banded pipe fish, striped cat fish, juvenile barramundi cod, juvenile sweetlips, snake eels, mantis shrimps, cuttlefish, octopus, squid, egg shell/Coleman/ emperor and rock shrimps, convict blennies, cockatoo wasp fish, ribbon eels, giant angler fish, frog fish, variety of moray eels, egg and tiger cowries, burr fish, bamboo sharks, fang blennies, comets etc.

These are but a few of the more than 30 divesites in Lembeh Strait...

Bangka Island

SAHAONG 1 & SAHAONG 2
Diving Depth: 0-120ft / 0-36m. Series of rocky pinnacles rising up to the surface. Healthy colorful reef with variety of small soft corals, fans, hard and leather corals. Deeper areas good schooling action with 5 lined snappers, banner fish, rainbow runners, red tooth triggerfish and fusiliers.

Marine Life: ribbon eels, leaf scorpion fish, yellow margin and giant moray eels, egg cowries, crocodile flat heads, white tip reef sharks, juvenile emperor angel fishes, many nudibranchs, hairy squat lobsters, arrow crabs.

BATU GOSOH
Diving Depth: 0-130ft / 0-40m. Series of steep rocky pinnacles rising up to the surface. Very healthy and colorful reef with lots of tunicates, small soft corals, fans, leather and hard corals. Schooling midnight snappers, sweetlips, fusiliers and red tooth trigger fish.

Marine Life: ribbon eels, many nudibranchs, yellow mask / semi circle and majestic angelfishes, bump head parrotfishes, egg and tiger cowries, clown triggerfishes, pigmy sea horses, Napoleon wrasse and possibly dugong!

Para Island

PARA ONE (a.k.a. SPOT X)
Diving Depth: 10-130ft / 3-40m. High-adrenaline pinnacle dive with never a dull moment.

Marine Life: Big schools, pelagics, turtles & wicked currents. Warning: often cannot be dived due to wind and sea conditions.

Ruang Island

LAVA FLOW

Underwater volcano

Diving Depth: 0-120ft / 0-36m. Fringing sloping lava rock reef with short walls. Healthy reef with lots of crinoids, fans, black corals and impressive barrel sponges.

Marine Life: Schooling pyramid butterfly fishes, fire dart gobies, shrimp gobies, Napoleon wrasse, dogtooth tuna, notodoris minor and other nudibranchs, hairy squat lobsters, porcelain crabs, bubble coral shrimps, ribbon eels and cuttlefish. Melon headed whales have been seen here.

LUCKY DIP
Diving Depth: 10-80ft / 3-24m. Fringing gently sloping reef with rocky, hard coral, sandy and sea grass patches. Some areas covered with both yellow and purple elephant ear sponges.

Marine Life: Razor fish, estuarine stone fish, scorpion fishes, mantis shrimps, white eye moray eels, cuttlefish, squid, sand divers, longhorn cow fish, juvenile groupers, bearded and 6-lined soap fish, ribbon eels, occelated lion fish, inimicus (spiny devil fish), snake eels, striped cat fish, nudibranchs and spine cheek anemone fishes.

Siau Island

EDDY'S POINT
Diving Depth: 10-130ft / 3-40m. Straight wall with many encrusting and barrel sponges. Big schools of pyramid butterfly fishes, fusiliers, snappers and banner fish.

Marine Life: square spot anthias, blue head tilefish, Napoleon wrasse, scorpion leaf fish, octopus, eggshell shrimps, yellow edge moray eels, black tip reef shark, devil scorpion fish, garden eels, convict blennies and reptilian snake eel. Special Feature: rumbling sounds of active volcano!

Mahengetang Island

UNDERWATER VOLCANO
Diving Depth: 10-XXX ft / 3-XXX m. Top of active volcano coming up all the way to the surface, surrounded by deep water. Immense barrel sponge formation that has to been seen to be believed. Beautiful hard coral reef patches. Big schools of pyramid butterfly fishes, fusiliers and big eye jacks along steep slope.

Marine Life: Napoleon wrasse, green and hawksbill turtles, black tip reef shark, bumphead parrot fishes, giant clams, clown trigger fish, rainbow runners, great barracuda, square spot anthias, emperor and bi-color angel fishes. Special: listen underwater for rumbling sounds of active volcano and visit the hot water gas vents in the shallows.

Kahakatang Island

CRESCENT PEAKS

Double-ended Pipefish

Diving Depth: 20-120ft / 6-36m. Series of pinnacles that come to within 20 feet / 6 meter of the surface. Very healthy coral reef with lots of small soft corals, fan corals, tunicates and hard corals. Big schools of fusiliers, banner fish, pyramid butterfly fish, surgeonfish, black and midnight snappers.

Marine Life: yellow mask/6-banded/regal/semi circle/majestic/blue ringed and emperor angel fishes, footballer groupers, Napoleon wrasse, bumphead parrot fishes, many flatworms and nudibranchs, dogtooth tunas, white tip and grey reef shark, leaf scorpion fish, golden wenteltrap snails, Moyers dragonet and scorpion fishes.

THE VINEYARD
Diving Depth: 0-100ft / 0-30m. Sloping fringing mainly hard coral reef with lots of sea grapes, sponges and sea grass in the very shallows.

Marine Life: pajama cardinal fish, spine cheek anemone fish, crocodile flat head, winged pipefish, many nudibranchs, juvenile bi-color parrotfish, many small shrimps on mushroom corals. Possibly hawksbill turtles.

Bunaken Marine National Park

MANDOLIN, LEKUAN, MIKE'S POINT, MUKA KAMPUNG, PANGALISANG & BUNAKEN TIMUR
Diving Depth: 10-XXXft / 3-XXXm. Impressive wall dives with colorful reef tops.

Marine Life: Huge schools of red tooth triggerfish, pyramid butterfly fish, fusiliers and banner fish. Pigmy sea horses, leaf scorpion fishes, ribbon eels, orangutan crabs, Napoleon wrasse, bump head parrot fish, clown trigger fish, crinoid cling fish, (hairy) squat lobsters, bubble coral shrimps, green and hawksbill turtles, black tip and white tip reef sharks, king mackerel, dogtooth tuna, blue fin trevallies, chevron barracudas, notodoris minor and many other nudibranchs, long nose hawk fish, mantis shrimps, banded sea kraits, mandarin fish, blue spotted sting rays, eagle rays, painted spiny lobsters, variety of angel and butterfly fishes, etc.

Minahasa Lagoon Area

POPO 1 & POPO 2
Diving Depth: 10-100ft / 3-30m. Gently sloping reef with sea grass beds and hard coral patches in the shallows and a black sand/mud bottom. This is muck diving at its VERY best!

Marine Life: common and thorny sea horses, mimic octopus, leaf scorpion fish, snake eels, harlequin ghost pipe fishes, flamboyant cuttlefish, razor fish, long snout pipe fish, frog fish, cuttlefish, lion and scorpion fish, ribbon eels, strapweed file fish, giant shrimp gobies, cuttlefish, reef squid, emperor shrimps, juvenile Batavia spade fish, finger dragonets, etc. We found a yellow Rhinopias here and a dugong was seen by one of our divers.

MINAHASA RESORT HOUSE REEF
Diving Depth: 10-80ft / 3-24m. Gently sloping black sand/mud bottom with mainly hard coral patches.

Marine Life: black, blue and yellow ribbon eels, reef stone fish, leaf scorpion fishes, giant shrimp gobies, mimic octopus, nudibranchs, striped cat fish, blue spotted sting rays, flounders, mullets, bar-tail/giant and white eye moray eels, juvenile sweet lips, many scorpion and lion fishes, razor fish and juvenile angel fishes.

RAJA AMPAT DIVESITES

Gam Island

Yellow Rhinopias

Marine Life: Schools of sweet lips, schools of snappers, school of crescent-tail bigeyes.

SARDINE REEF
Diving Depth: 12-115ft / 4-35m. The top of this reef is approx 13-23ft / 4-7m below the surface. Slopes with colorful soft corals changing into a sandy area. After entering the water you think you are diving in fish soup. Endless amount of schooling fish and colorful sponges. One of the top dives!

Marine Life: Schooling sardines and yellowtail barracudas, reef fish, clown triggerfish, bump head parrot fish.

CHICKEN REEF
Diving Depth: 0-115ft / 0-35m. Reef with lots of big and small staff. We will find no chickens there but besides some big animals we will also see some small surprises. Slopes end at a depth of 115ft / 30m and change to a sandy area.

Marine Life: Schooling jack fish, barracudas and bumphead parrot fish, pygmy seahorses, leaf fish, schools of narrow barred spanish mackerel, pipe fish and wasp fish.

MANTA POINT
Diving Depth: 0-6 ft / 0-20m No guesses as to what you will see here! Between three reefs there is a sandy bottom. Just lay down and wait until the giant mantas come.

Marine Life: Giant manta rays, slender sea mouths.

AIR BORE REEF
Diving Depth: 0-80ft / 0-25m. Slopes with soft and hard coral gardens. The reef roof is 20-30ft / 6-9m below the surface. Most parts of the reef have nice slopes that are full of soft and hard corals. Only the western part is white sand.

Marine Life: nudibranchs, giant flathead, school of sardines, painted rock lobster, crinoid shrimp.

MIKE'S POINT
Diving Depth: 0-130ft / 0-40m. Great walls and an impressive underwater landscape. Giant walls with huge overhangs and wherever you look you will find schools of different fish varieties. Table corals, sea fans and soft corals are quite common here too.

Marine Life: School of sweet lips, several kinds of pygmy seahorses and lots more...

Kri Island

CAPE KRI & EAST KRI
Diving Depth: 0-100ft / 0-30m. Covered with colorful corals and lots of fish, the cape is good for drift dives with maybe a medium to strong current. Starting at a wall mixed with soft and hard corals, we drift along to where it changes to a slope. The dive will end in the shallow part of the cape.

Marine Life: Schools of barracudas, pygmy seahorse, nudibranchs, schools of jacks and snappers, manta rays, sharks, turtles, giant groupers, raja epaulette shark.

MANSUAR
Dive Depth: 0-65ft / 0-20m. Gentle slope with hard and soft corals. A good spot for a relaxing dive, without current but full of beautiful soft and hard coral varieties.

Marine Life: Basket stars, decorator crabs, needle shrimp, gorgonian shrimp and more...

Fam Islands

Pygmy Seahorse

Marine Life: Schools of yellowtail barracudas, schooling reef fish, pygmy seahorses, nudibranchs.

LAGOON
Diving Depth: 0-100ft / 0-30m. Slope and wall dive. Area with a gentle slope full of hard corals, changing to a small wall, which is a cape under water, full of soft corals.

Marine Life: Whitetip reef sharks, nudibranchs, humphead wrasse.

ANITA'S GARDEN
Diving Depth: 0-80ft / 0-25m. Garden full of soft and hard corals. Diving through a coral garden, with impressive colours and gentle slopes.

Marine Life: Giant flathead, reef stonefish, nudibranchs,

MELISSA'S GARDEN
Diving Depth: 0-80ft / 0-25m. A perfect coral garden. A giant garden full of surprises between the many soft and hard corals. Giant clams as well as a wonderful marine life. You don’t have to dive deep.

Marine Life: Spotted wobbegong, giant grouper, reef fish varieties and much more...

WEST FAM WALL
Diving Depth: 0-115ft / 0-35m. A dive location with some great spots. On the one side we have a nice steep slope with corals and sponges and on the other hand we have a huge wall.

Marine Life: Nudibranchs, pygmy seahorses, sea slugs, spider crab, flatworms, pipefish, decoration crabs, spider crabs, gorgonian shrimp.

Kawe Island

EAGLE ROCK
Diving Depth: 0-80ft / 0-25m. Three rock pinnacles rise above water, plus several pinnacles rising up to the surface. This is a great dive, between the pinnacles with their wonderful soft and hard corals is life a different world. We dive from one pinnacle to the next then finish the dive next to the main rock.

Marine Life: Painted rock lobster, white spotted bamboo sharks, manta rays, fish varieties.

TELUK KAWE
Diving Depth: 0-65ft / 0-20m. A perfect place for a night dive. A nice slope in a bay with colourful corals and a large range of biodiversity.

Marine Life: Nudibranchs, sea slugs, flat worms, shrimps, crabs, decorator crabs, egg cowries, partridge tun.

UNZE

Broadclub Cuttlefish

Diving Depth: 0-130ft / 0-40m. The name means UNder ZEro. Small islands coming up from the deep sea and between there are some pinnacles. Depending on the current, we dive around and between the small islands and pinnacles exploring some nice canyons with deep walls. At the end of the dive are some shallows plateaus.

Marine Life: Nudibranchs, school of bump head parrot fish, scorpion fish, schools of reef fish, turtles, coral shrimps.

CANGGO
Diving Depth: 0-100 ft / 0-30m. A small rock with giant walls. Huge and impressive walls, swim-throughs and overhangs with medium to strong current. Good for huge schools of fish. Look inside the rock crevasses to find small creatures.

Marine Life: Schools of neon fusiliers and yellowback fusiliers, schools of bumphead parrot fish and yellowmask surgeonfish, reef fish varieties.

Waigeo Island

THE PASSAGE
Diving Depth: 0-65ft / 0-20m. Fascinating scenery where ever you look above and under the water. The landscape above water looks like a river course, surrounded by thick rain forest with many small rocks. At changing of tides the current can be quite strong.

Marine Life: Nudibranchs, pipefish, flatworms, sea slugs, spotted wobbegong, cuttlefish, blennies, rays, school of bump head parrot fish, school of jack fish, banded sea snake.

NUDIBRANCH ROCK
Diving Depth: 0-65ft / 0-2m. Nudibranchs over Nudibranchs. It’s a muck dive not far away from The Passage but completely different. In a side arm we will find a different world with a sandy area full of nudibranchs.

Marine Life: Nudibranchs, goby shrimps, turtles, sea slugs, banded sea snake, flatworms, pipefish, bobtail squid.

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