Attractions range from incredible manta encounters to
black sand dives with weird and wonderful critters.
Not exact matches
As with most muck
dive sites you are greeted with what looks like a dull and uninteresting stretch of
black volcanic
sand.....
One of the key attractions is the sheer variety of marine life and different eco-systems that can be found in the area, from healthy hard coral gardens to
black sand critter sites and fast action pinnacle
dives, Komodo National Park has it all.
You can
dive vertical walls and
sand slopes; steel and wooden shipwrecks; limestone shorelines and
black, volcanic outcrops; peaceful bays and ripping currents; deep, coral - covered ridges, shallow sea grass beds and big bommies, as well as both shore and boat diving.
Very good muck
dive with
black sand, occasional rocks and mooring lines that offer some amazing macro life.
This is a very good muck
dive with
black sand, occasional rocks and mooring lines that offer some amazing macro life.
Over in Horseshoe Bay we found some beautiful Coleman shrimps on fire urchins at «Yellow Wall», and had a great night
dive on a critter - filled
black sand at «Torpedo Bay».
The
dive sites offer a huge variety of topography, vertical walls and
sand slopes, steel and wooden shipwrecks, limestone shorelines and
black volcanic outcrops, peaceful tropical bays and ripping currents, shallow seagrass beds with both shore and boat diving in Lembongan and Penida.
Pantai Parigi - Believe it or not, Pantai Parigi is actually the only white
sand muck
dive site that you will find in the Lembeh Strait, an area dominated by
black sand.
Further north from here, you will reach the remote
dive resorts of Amed and Tulamben, where most hotels are
dive resorts with comfortable rooms, beachside pools and restaurants and, most importantly, some of Bali's best reefs or wreck
dives just a short distance out from the pebbly or
black volcanic
sand coastlines.
Lawadi Beach is a classic Papua New Guinea muck
dive starting out from a pebble beach which transforms to
black sand and mud.
At some
dive sites you have hard corals, at others it's mostly soft corals, and with such a large number of islands you find many different ecosystems including seagrass beds, mangroves, shallow reefs, deep drop offs,
black sand, plus there are more recorded species of fish in Raja Ampat than anywhere else.
Every
dive is a new adventure into caves, shallow reefs, mangroves, white and
black sand, drop - offs, seagrass beds and a banquet of coral.
If you wish to do muck or critter diving day trips we can organise
dives in the
black sands of Manado Bay (South of Siladen).
Unlike the other
dive sites in Padang Bay, the
sand here is
black.
If you are interesting in diving the north coast or the north east will be your place where
black and white
sand beaches offer excellent snorkeling and there are many great
dive sights located close by.