The area has outstanding marine biodiversity with staggering
coral walls around Bunaken, the more recently discovered muck diving sites in Manado Bay and the stunning reefs around Bangka which, whilst not part of the park, are celebrated for their stunning soft corals, dugongs and marine biodiversity.
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Boasting its own jetty you can take a local boat on a 25 minute journey to the world class diving
around Menjangan Island, where stunning
walls and beautiful
corals await you.
The new dive site is nicknamed THREE CORNERS and is a very good dive, the bottom is
around 35m and starts out as white sand & rubble, it then turns into really pristine
coral wall with lots of sea fans and many whip
corals as well as lots of hard & soft
corals.
The main villa is an architectural masterpiece of polished
coral stone floors, carved pillars and dramatic archways set against an artistic counterpoint of native blue bit stone
walls inlaid with seashells from
around the world.
We have a variety of sea life, vast amounts of
coral growing, some incredible
walls and topography especially
around Trawangan and Air.
The first stage in restoring the ring reef
around the entire island was started in 2008 and protecting its lovely beaches without concrete, dead
coral walls, or plastic mesh bags pumped full of sand, which invariably disintegrate, rip, and leave plastic debris littering the sand.
It is not unusual to see large turtles during this dive and the
wall is crammed with macro, colorful soft and hard
corals Along the
wall there are also some big Branching
corals with shoals of Razor fish hanging out
around them.
From nudibranch to sharks, from turtles to clownfish, we saw each time a full spectrum of marine life as we navigated
around the bommies, the canyons and the big
walls of
corals.
The dive itself is along a slope running from north to south at
around 25 to 80 feet / 8 -24 mt. Impressive wire
coral and lettuce leaf
corals lines the side of this
wall and forms a perfect habitat for spotted moray eels, lobsters and trumpet fish.
The shallow part of this site begins at
around 4m with a small
wall going down to 12m consisting of a very colourful hard
coral reef where big schools of drummers and rainbow runners can be seen passing by as well as a variety of other reef life.
You'll find hundreds of longnose hawkfish flitting
around the black
corals, which are found deeper along the
wall.
The diving
around Bali is incredibly diverse: beautiful
coral and
walls in Menjangan Marine Park in the North; fascinating muck dive and reefs in Amed; challenging dives in Padang Bai and Candidasa; exhilarating drifts and big fish encounters in Nusa Pendia & Nusa Lembongan; fantastic muck diving in the North and East of Bali; and the famous USS Liberty shipwreck at Tulamben which is not to be missed by anyone visiting Bali!
The tunnel is
around 20 metres long and has many cup
corals and sponges along its
walls, take care of possible surge within the tunnel, and don't forget your torch.
Toys Pakeh has some of the best
coral around Nusa Penida and a varied topography, including sloping reef, plateau and
wall sections.
There are
around 10 - 12 dive sites
around Menjangan Island, a mix of vertical
walls and sloping
coral gardens.
The island also has a number of
wall dives and deeper hard
corals and large sea fans, so all the usual colourful suspects in terms of reef fish, are to be found
around the different dive sites.
They have access to an area south of Manado called Popooh which offers «macro» diving on small
coral bommies in an area rich in sea - grass, muck diving in the dark sands of Manado Bay, the
coral reef covered
walls of nearby Bunaken Island, the soft
coral around the volcanic island of Bangka Island, and renowned muck diving of the Lembeh Strait.
Nakase dive site is a steep
coral wall dropping to
around 30m, with a wide variety of soft and hard
corals.
[0:16:36.4] TR: Anguar is the southernmost one and it's got pretty deep water
around it and so people don't dive Anguar so much but Peleliu has still some nice
walls and some incredible drift dives that you can do at a place like Yellow
Wall, which is just entirely covered in yellow soft
corals and there's beautiful arches that you can just swim through that are just totally golden colored from the yellow soft
corals and then drift down to the Peleliu tip too.
All dive sites
around the 5 islands of the Marine Park are
wall dives whereas dive sites alongside the coast of North Sulawesi are mostly dark sandy slopes with
corals.
We also will offer a transfer service from the airport (Mactan International, Cebu) which is approximately 2.5 hours from the resort.The Dive Centre also has a beach bar & grill We have
around 15 different divesites with pristine
corals, abundant fish life, occasionally whalesharks, threshers and whitetips, great
wall diving and all divesites can be reached with our fast boat within 15 minutes.We provide 3 boatdives per day and night diving this can be done directly at our housereef which is directly next to our centre.
As such, there are a dozen dive sites
around the island within a 10 minute boat ride which can vary from gardens of
coral bommies to vertical
coral walls plummeting hundreds of metres.