This is a sandy slope with huge barrel sponges and sea fans. Along with the shoaling fish we often see the odd eagle ray or large Napoleon wrasse. Other sightings here can include: cuttlefish, jawfish nesting, gobies of all shape and size, ribbon eels, nudibranchs and stone fish.

Black Rock also known as Batu Hitam is the continuation of the Molas wreck reef slope.

It is a gentle dive with hardly any currents and great for macro lovers. The reef consists of a sandy slope with coral patches and finishes off as a little wall.

Great for critters like ribbon eels, rare nudibranchs, leaf fish and frogfish, crocodile flatheads and such. It is a perfect dive to do in combination with the Molas wreck.

The visibility various between 10-30m. There are rocky patches with Cuttlefish, Pipefish, Leaf Scorpionfish, Emperor shrimps and a lot more. Look out for nesting Jawfishes!

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Novice Diver - 20 + Dives
• Max Depth: 22

The Batu Kapal is a slopping wall with good visibility and schooling tropicals. Occasionally, divers encounter very strong currents. It is located at the very top of the Lembeh Strait.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18m

Crystal Rock is a large seamount that barely breaks the surface, but below is very rich in marine life, particularly lionfish, anthias, coral grouper, and butterfly fish. Some of the current underwater is swift, but nothing that divers cannot swim against and the rich wide-angle potential of the colourful filter feeders make it worthwhile.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 23

This site is also known as the Pygmy Paradise and the Flamenco Reef and it offers divers the opportunity to see a variety of Spanish dancer nudibranchs and pygmy seahorses.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth:

Three Sisters are three quite large flooded pinnacles within easy swimming distance of each other at about 10 meters apart. They are about five meters below the surface, making them a bit hard to find, and bottoms out at about maximum 30 meters onto rubble and sand. The rocks run to the East in line at about 100 meters from a small reef that sticks out on the Eastern side of an island. It is not too affected by current and can usually be dived. The walls of the pinnacles are covered in soft corals, Tubastrea, and Crinoids. The tops of the pinnacles offer stunning hard and soft coral gardens.

Three Sisters dive site in the Komodo Islands seems to be pure with an incredible coral cover and a great fish life.

The three sisters are 3 big rocks on a 30 m deep sandy bottom. The top part of the rocks is about 3 m deep, perfect to finish the dive in the shallow water.

On this dive site you can find many species of nudibranchs. In the blue, pellagic fishes swim around and whitetip sharks are often on the deeper part of the site.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth:

The Pertamina Pier is a relatively new site with a black sand slope in the harbor that forms a haven for critters. Here you will have the opportunity to see ghost pipefish, seahorses, hairy crabs, wonderpuss and bizarre species of octopus.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth:

Manta Sandy also known as Manta Mantra is one of the signature dive sites in Raja Ampat located at the far end of Mansour Island. As the name implies the sandy bottom is a great place to watch these magnificent underwater creatures. The cleaning station is only 12 metres away and here you can watch the mantas being cleaned with some staying as long as 10 minutes.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth:

Exploding with life, this dive site is nestled between Gili Lawa Laut and Gili Lawa Durat in Komodo National Park. Depending on tides the possibility of strong currents, small up and down wellings and water flowing at high speeds can create and action packed dive

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

Once out of the current divers are in for an exceptional treat. The fish life here is simply stunning with schooling barracuda, trevally, and mackerel awaiting divers at depths of 30-40 meters. White tips, black tips, gray reef sharks and giant trevally all frequent this site in hopes of a good meal. At approximately 20 meters there is excellent soft coral growth and numerous sea fans that host the tiniest of pygmy seahorses. Curious batfish will escort you, and fusiliers will pass you by as you look for big rays out in the blue. In recent times a pod of bottlenose dolphins have made this spot one of their favorite hunting grounds, and you can often see them while diving.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

A beautiful submerged ridge that starts at just 6m from the surface. The site resembles an underwater plateau mountain, that progressively steps down half a dozen times.Dropping in from the dive boat, the first sight is an impressive hard coral garden on the shallowest flat top of the ridge. Giant Black Pacific Mantas have been seen many times at this location.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

The dive site showcases large underwater windows that rest just below the surface. Aside from this, the site is dripping with soft corals and schooling fish.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

Schools of Yellow Snapper, Napoleon Wrasse, big groupers and many Wobbegong sharks can be found in Mioskon. Pigmy seahorses, different species of nudibranch can be seen as well.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

Soft coral, gorgonian fans, black coral bushes and slopes of coral heads populate the whole Sardine Reef area. Large schools of fusiliers, sardines, damsels, banner fish, butterfly fish, sweetlips and snappers frequent the site, picking tasty morsels out of the current. Triggerfish and predators such as barracuda, Spanish mackerel, Jacks and giant trevallies can be seen as well. At the top of the food-chain, black tipped reef sharks, white tipped reef sharks and even grey reef sharks usually cruise the surroundings.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

The dive site features an oval-shaped reef with a flat top where extended areas of coral gardens impress divers with their intense colors and beautiful forms. Bright soft-coral outcrops, sponges, and masses of crinoids are densely scattered between impressive hard-coral formations, where a large array of small marine creatures found their shelters.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

Pura Jepun itself is shallow water coral reefs with all the coral fish babies are easily to be seen at 5 meters depth.

The sandy bottom has small blocks of corals, and apart from many types of reef fish, you can find crocodile fish and mantis shrimps. The Tanjung Sari dive site nearby, with a wall and a reef on a sandy slope. It’s full of small marine life, like scorpion leaf fish, nudibranches as well as sharks turtles and Octopus.

Blue spotted stingray and crocodile fish are often seen at the twin rock.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Novice Diver - 20 + Dives
• Max Depth: 30

This dive site is the channel between Gili Lawa Darat and Komodo Island. Also known as Darat Passage.

The dive then starts in the shallow eastern bay and the current takes you westwards through a beautiful coral garden.

The coral garden is beautiful and deeper you get more life you’ll find there awaiting for you. You will cross the channel about 20 meters deep surrounded by amazing landscapes always changing and fish.

Schools of sweet lips, trevally, reefs white and black tip sharks. Lots of turtles. In few occasion we met giant manta ray and dolphins.

• Dive Type: Drift Dive
• Diver Level: Novice Diver - 20 + Dives
• Max Depth: 20

Anita’s Reef is the perfect introduction to the Similan Islands. Huge coral structures with vibrant colours are home to a large variety of Marine life.

Generally easy conditions make this one of the most popular Similan dive sites and a regular part of a Similan Liveaboard schedule.

Anitas Reef can also been known as Barracuda Point.

The Marine life is teeming with many pelagic fishes and turtles around the reef. This dive site is really great for underwater photography because of its topography but also for its macro mife.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Novice Diver - 20 + Dives
• Max Depth: 28

Manta Ridge is located between Mansuar Island and Airborei Island. The dive site is a popular manta ray cleaning station that attracts groups of mantas. Some have wing spans of four metres across and are accompanied by cobias. All are accompanied by remoras and golden trevallies.

The mantas glide into the cleaning stations effortlessly despite the very strong currents that are usually present. Divers may have to hang on or use a reef hook to remain in one place and observe them.

Further down the reef you can find armies of bumphead parrotfish crashing over the coral. Turtles can be found on the reef. Blacktip reef sharks are seen in deeper water.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 40

Clown Valley sits offshore of small Pura Island. The site consists almost entirely of an endless, waving carpet of anemones of every shape and size, as far as the eye can see.

About half the anemones are occupied by clownfish, from whom the site gets its name.

Often described as a Clown Fish city the seabed is covered in boulders and anemones of every size and shape and colour.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 15m

The Candy Store wows with its spectacular soft corals and perfusion of fish life. At times it was truly like diving in fish soup! Candy Store named so as the frst divers to explore this reef felt like kids in a candy store, is covered in huge sponges, beautiful soft corals and sea fans. In the valleys, schools of fusiliers, butterfy fsh and barracuda gather.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Experienced Diver - 50 + Dives
• Max Depth: 35m

Andiamo is a large, stunning reef with a submerged pinnacle covered in sea fans and surrounded by schools of fusiliers and batfsh. Black tip reef sharks and napoleon wrasse can also be found here.

The Andiamo dive site is one of the highlights of the Raja Ampat region and will be particularly interesting for macro photography lovers.

At this site, divers can find an amazing array of small marine creatures that hide among the colorful soft corals, big gorgonians, and hard black corals.

The beautiful underwater landscape at this site features steep coral-covered walls, some interesting overhangs, and underwater passages that are worth exploring.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 27m

Four Kings is made up of four underwater pinnacles covered in soft coral and colourful tunicates. You vcan swim from one rock to the next, enjoying the soft corals, psychedelic colours and abundant fsh life. Be sure to look out for turtles here.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 30m

This site is called Barracuda rock but schooling trivially are the highlight of this one. Watch them come in wave after wave in perfect formation. A great undercut on this site gives divers the chance to get amongst the critters that like to hide in the dark and shelter here.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 25

Mayhem gets its name from the insane swarms of fusiliers, trevally, barracuda, surgeonfish and batfish that bestow this fully submerged reef. From the surface you would not even know this site exists of the north western tip of Yanggefo Island.

It is a circular flat topped reef, with sloping walls on all sides covered in hard and soft corals. The best parts of the reef are on the north and east sides. Occasional pelagic sharks wander into this site.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 26

Siaba Besar is another amazing dive of north Komodo. The beautiful coral garden lies along the western coast of the island and the site can be dived both in rising and falling tide providing that falling tide, with currents pushing towards south, is the best.

As in any other spot with running waters large schools of pelagic hunt here around. Black tip sharks, barracudas, snappers, trevally, wrasses and turtles are usually spotted during this dive.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Novice Diver - 20 + Dives
• Max Depth: 25

Your start on a beautiful coral garden with white sand and large coral blocks and then you continue on a slope nicely covered with healthy soft corals and gorgonian sea fans.

There is a good chance to see eagle rays or sharks, but you should also check out the corals for shrimps and nudibranchs.

To finish the dive you go up to a shallow coral garden, often there are marine turtles and even sometimes banded sea kraits. On one occasion we also saw a dugon. Also a good place for snorkelling and the Pangabatan island is a really nice place for a little stroll on the white sand.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 30

The bay is quite long and deep with some pearl farms and fishing rafts close to the shore. The terrain is very rugged with Kalabahi situated where Alor kechil and Alor besar are joined.

Along the northern coast of Kalabahi bay are several muck dive sites. You find everything you want, from Rhinopias scorpionfishes to leaffishes, ghostpipefishes (Halimeda, Ornate and Robust) to frogfishes, seahorses and dragonets as well as crabs, shrimps and a lot of different nudibranchs. Often long ropes covered with hydroids and small corals come down from the shore

• Dive Type: Shore Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 20

Here you can easily find colourful flat worms, nudibranches, crocodile fishes, groopers lobsters, trigoni maculate and medium size tridacnas tridacne. Sometimes a sea eagle or a shark passes by.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 25m

The beautiful Mioskon reef offers new divers a great first impression of what they can expect from Raja Ampat. Schools of Yellow Snapper, Napoleon Wrasse, big groupers and many Wobbegong sharks can be found in Mioskon. Pigmy seahorses, different species of nudibranch can be seen as well. Being relatively shallow it makes for a good snorkel too.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: 10
• Max Depth: 30m

Kal’s dream or Batu Kepa is a pinnacle 150 meters behind Kepa Island, near Alor. The topography and rich coral reef lend easily themselves to the passage of schools of jacks, dogtooth tuna, and barracuda as well as giant moray eels, groupers, and Napoleon wrasse.

• Dive Type: Drift Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 30m

One of the Pantar Strait’s most beautiful walls, the Great Wall aka Bamah Wall is covered in vividly orange and pink colored sponge, soft corals and orange anthias. Aside from the spectacular condition of the reef and the topography, we can see a variety of marine life such as napoleon wrasse and bumphead parrotfish, giant and blue fin trevally, schools of black snapper and fusiliers plus tons of macro such as bargabanti pygmy seahorses, flatworms, nudis, leaf fish, and whip coral shrimp.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 35m

Pan Abang is a good muck dive site where you can see interesting critters like Wunderpus, Mimic octopus, Rhinopias, ghostpipefishes, spearing mantis shrimp, frogfish, devil fish, pegasus and Coleman shrimps. You dive on sand interspaced with some corals.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 20m

Above water there is a steep rock wall descending into the sea, so underwater there are huge jumbled rocks and boulders and a steep wall covered with lots of hard and soft corals and sponges.

There is a swim through with a cave at about 25 meters and we were lucky and found a huge tawny nurseshark (Nebrius ferrugineus) lying in the cave there.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 25m

This site has lots of huge rocks lying side by side with many narrow spaces in between to swim through. Hari Lalong is good for a slow drift dive with a gentle slope at the end, covered with soft corals and plenty of small fish.

• Dive Type: Drift Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 25m

Sharks Galore is a drift dive off the coast of Pura Island, this is a good dive site to see black tip reef and grey reef sharks.

• Dive Type: Drift Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 40m