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
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The rocky islet has a distinctive whale shape when it is viewed from the south, hence the name. Due to the exposed position of the island, most dives here are drift dives, and it will be enjoyable for divers to drift along the gently sloping reef beautifully encrusted with corals and sponges.

• 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

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

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

It is a reef with various soft and hard corals and some rock formations. The reef has an enormous number of magnificent reef fish. Some of the life here includes table corals, black staghorn corals, feather corals, angelfish, clown triggerfish, butterflyfish, trevallies, surgeonfish, and red-margin shrimpgobies.

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

While down in the coral rubble on the slope around the jetties you will find jawfish, pipefish and other critters. Further down are several bommies which are home to some schooling sweetlips and numerous critters.

• 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

Marine life from big to small can all be seen at this stunning site. Black tip, white tips, grey reef sharks and dog tooth tuna can all be seen cruising by whilst hiding amongst the corals are cowries, nudibranchs, porcelain crabs and mushroom coral pipefish.

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

There are numerous small islands surrounding the second of the Four Kings, Misool, including Daram, Farondi, Boo, Wayilbatan, Kalig and Warakaraket to name just a few. Each offers some of the most dramatic underwater scenery of the region, from steep walls with huge gorgonian fans to gentler slopes with hard and soft corals.

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

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

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

Situated between Gam and the Yanggelo Islands, a reef extends out into a point in the middle of the channel, forming a great spot for a dive. Citrus Ridge features a white sandy bottom. In the right conditions you can expect some of the highest voltage diving in Raja Ampat, with currents bringing massive schools of barracudas, three species of fusiliers, trevallies, batfsh, bump head parrotfsh, wobbegongs, as well as black and white tip reef sharks.

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

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

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

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

igure 8 Rock - This site is in the southern area of Wayag and appears to be two separate islands. The combination of a hundred metre hard coral garden with a myriad of fusiliers and surgeonfish, offers a fantastic adventurous dive. Pelagic Rock - Pelagic Rock is on the north western side of Wayag. Interconnected mushroom-like silhouettes, lying just below the surface, have been sculpted from the soft limestone rock over centuries of wave erosion. Living amongst the bommies and boulders covered in purple soft corals are schools of fusiliers, surgeon fish and many other species. Wayag Lagoon - There is probably nowhere in Indonesia a better location for capturing stunning drone images than in Wayag Lagoon.

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

Black Rock - On the western side of Kawe, Black Rock is a South to North running reef with a lush black coral forest. Large schools of raccoon butterfly fish and emperor fish gather in the south, while on the northern pinnacles groups of batfish, barracudas and surgeonfish will hang out in the current. Eagle Rock - Diving at Eagle Rock you’re likely to spot mantas using the many cleaning stations or feeding on the surface in the channel between two of the islands. The deep end of the site is a labyrinth of gigantic boulders covered with an array of citrus colored soft coral where wobbegong sharks like to hide.

• 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: Boo Windows - Boo Windows was named after the tunnels and the swim through piercing its shallow section. This amazing site has a dramatic topography. Following the ridge heading west, expect to see grey reef sharks, napoleon wrasse, schools of batfish, even ghost pipefish and leaf fish. Tank Rock - Tank Rock (Batu Kecil) is one of the best dive sites in Raja Ampat. A submerged ridge connects Tank Rock to Nudi Rock, and with favorable conditions, you may even be able to dive all the way to Fiabacet’s middle island. It's one of the most extensive and wonderful reef systems in the area. Beautiful fish life surround stunning soft and hard corals. Nudi Rock - Nudi Rock got its name because of the nudibranch-like shape of the island as well as the abundance of nudibranchs that can be found hiding in the corals. The submarine landscape, with soft corals and sea fans in some areas, and hard corals in other areas is fantastic. Find all kinds of fish here in abundance – anchovies, snappers, groupers, Napoleon wrasse, barracuda and tunas too. Magic Mountain (Shadow Reef) - This seamount sits in the depths of Misool with its peak rising to 5 meters. A cleaning station for the different species, Magic Mountain has it all with biodiversity at its best here. Schools of trevalies, napoleon wrasse, groupers, different species of barracudas, sharks, Spanish mackerels, and last but not least Oceanic Manta Rays are often hovering around to get cleaned. Some dolphins and whale sharks have also been spotted there… Whale Rock - Whale Rock has a great variety of pygmy seahorses (Denise or Barbiganti species). To explore this site, we will cross over a little channel in between two small islands. Linked together by an underwater reef and a pinnacle, Whale Rock is full of fish.

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

Some examples of possible dive sites that you may visit: Kaleidoscope - Located on the western side of Pele Island, Kaleidoscope Ridge is one of the best dive sites in the area. The reef is a beautiful narrow slither of coral, with a sloping and steep side. A kaleidoscope of stunning colors, huge sea fans and fantastic fish life will make this a dive to remember. Pelee's Playground - Pelee’s Playground is located on the most Western side of Waaf island. Witness schools of anchovies being tracked by trevallies, bonitos, and look out into the blue to see if you can spot a squadron of Mobula rays. Toblerone - Toblerone is a shallow reef with a very large tunnel which dissects the dive site from north to south. The top of the reef is covered with healthy bommies and hard coral gardens.

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