The Cannibal Rock has marginal visibility, but more than makes up for it in terms of density of life. This small seamount rises to within a few feet of the surface, and it is easy to circumnavigate in a single dive. Sea apples and other varieties of the sea cucumber family are especially abundant here, as are nudibranchs, puffer fish, octopus, and all weird and wonderful manner of blennies.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
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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 is a small island South of Tatawa Besar island and offers fantastic snorkeling when the current is not to strong. It is best to dive the Western side of the island with rocks, caves and beautiful coral gardens in the shallows. Many coral reef fish, including large groupers, snappers, sweetlips, jacks and sharks swim around. Tatawa Kecil is probably the anthias capital of the world! Manta rays are often spotted on the southern side.

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

This is the most frequently visited site in theKomodo National Park. Snorkeling is excellent from the beach and there is an amazing dive site in a small area around a rock that breaks the surface only at low tide. There as a great variety of marine life here with a good selection of critters such as leaf scorpionfish, blueribbon eels, crocodile fishes, nudibranchs and more. This site is also excellent for night dives.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
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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
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The Cave Point is a nice easy dive on a wall with small caves between 20 and 35 meters. Here divers will have the opportunity to see loads of nudibranchs

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
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The Slab City Reef will give you the opportunity to encounter angelfish, parrotfish and schools of barracuda

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

The Arch is a beautiful place. On the wall you will have the opportunity to see huge underwater cervices form a large arch at about 20 to 30 meter. There are whip corals and gorgonians growing here with some reaching over 3 meter long and you might find the rare coral shrimp.

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

Boo Rock and Boo Point are ideal for up close and personal encounters with large Napoleon wrasse and green turtles. If you are a photographer you must try out your photo skills at Boo 'windows' as dive buddies swim through the opening of this submerged rock past a reef draped in soft corals and brimming with fish.

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

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

Batu Bolong is one of the best-known dive sites when diving Komodo. It’s actually a little underwater sea mount that extends above the surface, where the rock (“batu”) has a small hole (“bolong”) in it. The top of the reef is covered in colourful corals, invertebrate life and thousands of reef fish. Along the steep walls in deeper water you’ll find many large fishes including sharks, napoleon wrasse, giant trevally, dogtooth tuna, and large schools of rainbow runners.

• 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

Tatawa Besar dive site is an easy drift in shallow waters. It can be very rewarding with many manta rays in the rainy season! It is is located on the Northwestern tip of the Tatawa island in the Komodo National Park. The reef life is excellent and there are many orange soft corals.

• 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

One of the most popular sites in northern Raja Ampat. Almost anything can be seen from mantas, sharks and tuna to massive schools of jacks and barracuda. Along the slopes and onto the reef top are a variety of fans, sponges and soft and hard corals.

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

At the Northeast point of Kri island the currents sweep into a channel between Kri and the small island of Koh. At this point beneath waters churning in the current, huge schools of Big-eye trevallies, Barracudas and Snappers can be seen hanging over the drop-off. At the base of the reef an ancient snagged anchor rests next to a bommie with a dense school of Banded sweetlips. A large shallow coral garden crowns the reef top with blacktip reef sharks patrolling amongst the overlapping maze of hard corals with feeding hawksbill turtles. Car-sized Queensland groupers down to the diminutive ever-present pygmy seahorse can be seen on this phenomenal dive site.

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

With a tunnel that is inhabited by midnight snapper and shy Indonesian sweetlips. The 20 metre long tunnel is framed with sponges and soft corals. Look in black coral bushes for ornate ghost pipefish. Further along the wall huge gorgonian seafans are home to many pygmy seahorses. There are more than one variety here including Hippocampus Bargibanti which is commonly pink/white and bobbly plus Hippocampus Denise which is slightly smaller and often more orange in colour. Large schools of fish cover the wall including fusilier and surgeon fish, damsels and anthias.

• 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

In Nusa Kode, the dark sandy slope is littered with torpedo rays which give the site its name. Pygmy seahorses can be spotted in the gorgonian fans in deeper water and many nudibranchs and crustaceans are found all over the sloping reef.

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

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

Cape Kri holds the world record for the site with the largest number of species referenced in one single dive! The crossroads of different currents at the tip of the island of Kri has created an incredible variety of fauna and flora – all kinds of sharks, many schools of fish, amazing coral diversity, specimens for macro fans…everything is there! Sometimes, it’s enough to just dive down, cling to a rock, and enjoy the show! You never ever return disappointed from a dive at Cape Kri!

Large school of trevally is usually found at shallow depths; barracuda can be seen anywhere, large concentrations of bannerfish, sweetlips, emperors, and snappers hand in the current near the point. Giant Trevally weight more than 20kg are not unusual here or whitetip and grey reef sharks cruising by Cape Kri. Dive from west to east, beware of strong currents and also down current

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

Three Rocks is exactly that from the surface. Under the water the rocks make an impressive labyrinth of sheer walls to duck and dive around. You can expect to be surrounded in every aspect, around, up and down by fish of many different species.

Beautiful soft corals and whip corals protrude from the walls as you sweep around between all the rocks walls, moving from shadow to light as do the local residents.

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

Siaba Kecil is a drift dive and the ending point is always around a beautiful coral garden. Current here can be strong and the drift a real adventure for moderately expert divers.

The canyons are home of big pelagic fishes, sharks, barracudas and schools of giant trevally and sweet lips. Lots of turtles are usually found here. At the end of the drift there are rich coral gardens with a lot of life that are a paradise for macro lovers. Many critters live here around and the rare mandarin fish can be spotted too. Snorkelers will enjoy this spot as well.

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

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

This site is part collection of 3 sites around three small rock islands.

The dive site is made up of many bommies with drop offs that create further reef walls. These are covered densely with whip corals, sea fans, sponges, and many types of hard corals.

The macro life is flourishing amongst the healthy corals and macro photographers will have a field day investigating the corals and exploring the nooks and crannies of the reef.

There they will find many different types of seahorses including pygmy seahorses and also many types of nudibranchs.

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

This site is part of a collection of three sites which go around small rock islands.

The reefs here are remarkably healthy and often said to be some of the most beautiful reefs in Raja Ampat.

The dive sites are made up of many bommies with drop offs that create further reef walls. These are covered densely with whip corals, sea fans, sponges, and many types of hard corals. The macro life is flourishing amongst the healthy corals and macro photographers will have a field day investigating the corals and exploring the nooks and crannies of the reef.

There they will find many different types of seahorses including pygmy seahorses and also many types of nudibranchs.

Divers will see many different types of marine life all on one dive, so alongside the macro life, divers can also see many butterflyfish, porcupinefish, pufferfish, boxfish, triggerfish, surgeonfish, parrotfish, wrasse, damselfish, groupers, angelfish, and schools of fusiliers. Squid, cuttlefish, and turtles are also common in the area.

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

This fantastic area around three smallish rock islands is an area made up of three dive sites that are often dived as one area. The dive sites are creatively named Fiabacet 1, Fiabacet 2, and Fiabacet 3 and the reefs here are remarkably healthy and often said to be some of the most beautiful reefs in Raja Ampat.

Diving here is relatively deep as the main action is at around 20 metres. The site goes down to a maximum depth of 40 metres and visibility is normally around 25 metres.

The dive sites are made up of many bommies with drop offs that create further reef walls. These are covered densely with whip corals, sea fans, sponges, and many types of hard corals. The macro life is flourishing amongst the healthy corals and macro photographers will have a field day investigating the corals and exploring the nooks and crannies of the reef. There they will find many different types of seahorses including pygmy seahorses and also many types of nudibranchs.

Divers will see many different types of marine life all on one dive, so alongside the macro life, divers can also see many butterflyfish, porcupinefish, pufferfish, boxfish, triggerfish, surgeonfish, parrotfish, wrasse, damselfish, groupers, angelfish, and schools of fusiliers. Squid, cuttlefish, and turtles are also common in the area.

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

Huge boulders nearly break the surface with soft corals and schools of anthias, damsel fish, fusilier. Deeper down schools of sweetlips and snapper hang out in the black coral bushes, hunting jacks as well as wobbegong can also be found here.

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

The North western corner of Sebayor Kecil is one of the better dive sites at closer distance to Labuan Bajo. A small reef is extending towards the north west and around the edges where it drops of to greater depths, at a few hundred meters from the shore, there are some large boulders around which we can usually see groups of giants trevally, whitetip reef shark, coral trout, snappers and emperors. Most of the wall is well protected from current and usually has great visibility.

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

This site is great for twilight/ sunset or night dives, chance to see mandarin fish just before nightfall. Gentle slope covered by rubble of dead acropora and padina algae, however, excellent spot to meet rare species. Selection of possible animals: harlequin shrimp; nudibranchs; sea hare; bobtail squid; octopus; devilfish; one of the waspfish family; pictured dragonet; fingered dragonet etc.

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

Larry’s Heaven is named after one of Indonesia’s most famous dive guides,Larry Smith.

You can expect schooling snapper, surgeonfish, rabbitfish and barracuda. The overhang on the main islet contains prolific invertebrate growth.

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

The dive is mainly along a reef wall and it has some very interesting features. At the top of the reef, there is a 20-metre long cave that can be explored.

There are many whop corals, anemones, sponges, and Gorgonian fans along the wall making for a beautiful sight. The reef wall slopes down to around 25 metres and then it drops off to around 50 metres.

You can see many of the common reef fish of the area including batfish, anthias, damselfish, groupers, cardinal fish, sweetlips, angelfish, parrotfish, triggerfish, surgeonfish, and butterflyfish.

There is often a good amount of pelagic fish to view and the area is known as a popular area for eagle rays, manta rays, sharks, and turtles. Jacks, barracuda, snappers, and large schools of fusiliers, are commonly seen on this healthy reef.

• Dive Type: Drift Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 50m

Manta Alley is one of the best dive sites in Komodo national park. It is the best place to dive with manta rays and it is not rare to see up to 20 in one dive!

This site is still very good with many reef sharks, wrasses and schools of giant trevallies! Coral is also very beautiful with rich invertebrate life.

Wrasses and schools of trevallies can also be seen in local waters. The corals are very beautiful and diverse offering a spectacular background for marine life photography.

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

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

Blue Magic - This submerged ridge running east to west is composed mainly of hard corals with a few colorful bommies on the eastern end. An impressive variety of fish enjoy this spot such as tuna, jacks, barracuda, and fusiliers. You might also meet oceanic mantas at the cleaning station on the top of the seamount. Cape Kri - Cape Kri in the Dampier Strait is one of the most famous dive sites of Raja Ampat. The reef is en extention of the south side of Kri Island and is one of the best sites for big fish in North Raja Ampat. Beautiful coral, the huge density and variety of fish including barracudas, sweetlips, emperor angelfish, snappers, giant trevally and grey reef sharks make this a site not to be missed. Chicken Reef - Chicken Reef is a submerged pinnacle on the outskirts of Pulau Kri. Quite shallow, the slope is dotted with large coral bommies and plenty of critters can be found hiding within the gorgonian fans, anemones and soft coral formations. Mike's Point - Mike's Point is famous for its strong currents and the pure density and variety of fish found here. A spectacular dive just of Kerupiar Island which was bombed by allied planes during WWII after being mistakenly identified as a Japanese Ship. Mioskon - The Mioskon dive site offers a beautiful reef covered in the Northen Raja Ampat signature purple soft coral and schools of Yellow Snapper, Napoleon Wrasse, big groupers and Wobbegong sharks. Sardine Reef - Sardine Reef is a highlight of the Dampier Strait area. An oval shaped reef patch, it sits right in the middle of the open ocean. Around the reef, schools of fusiliers, Surgeonfish, Snappers, Damselfish and butterflyfish surrounded by predators, such as Barracuda, Spanish Mackerel, Giant Trevallies and several types of Jacks. On occasion you might even find some Grey Reef Sharks cruising around.

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

Andiamo - Andiamo is comprised of two small islets west of Candy Store. The marine life on the reef is magnificent, with healthy soft and hard corals, schools of fish such as fusillers, anchovies, barracuda and Jacks. Candy Store - Enjoy one of the most beautiful walls in Southern of Raja Ampat with Candy Store. Clusters of fish gather on the north facing pinnacles such as fusillers, anchovies, giant trevally, spanish mackerel. Huge and beautiful elephant ear sponges, sea fans, and soft corals decorate the western end of the dive site. Two Tree - Two Tree offers a rich plateau where you can spot schools of barracuda, trevally, beautiful soft coral, sea fans, black coral tree and octopus.

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

Some examples of possible dive sites that you may visit: Barracuda Rock - Barracuda Rock sits on a sandy bottom with a pretty plateau, and a macro filled undercut. Schooling fish such as trevally, barracuda and reef sharks can be spotted throughout the dive. The slope is made up of a series of limestone steps and beautiful black coral bushes. Dunia Kecil - Dunia Kecil in Indonesian language means 'small world'. Itd is a small rock on the western side of the Wahil Channel, compact enough to be circumnavigated in one dive. The top section is filled with wonderful soft corals, and the walls are covered with huge sea fans where different kind of pygmy sea horses can be spotted. Four Kings - Four Kings is a highlight in Misool! These four underwater pinnacles are full of fish and linked by a ridge. Four Kings is one of the best places to observe schools of anchovies getting hunted by the numerous predators. Action guaranteed. Wedding Cake - This rock located in the lagoon of Wayil, has a mushroom shape with numerous overhangs. It lies from South to North.

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