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.
Not exact matches
The more experienced swimmer can swim from one side of the cut to the other, experiencing
shallow reef, drop offs over the steep sides of the «cut», and
seagrass and sand
beds in the middle of the channel.
There is a great variety of dive sites from
shallow coral gardens to steep walls as well as canyons, channels,
seagrass beds, and mangrove sites.
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.
Similarly, only
seagrass beds already located in thermal - stress situations (i.e., in
shallow lagoons or near power plant effluents) are expected to be negatively affected by the projected temperature rise.