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:

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

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