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Diving Indonesia
From Bali's volcanic shores to Raja Ampat's coral gardens, discover Indonesia's wrecks, walls, manta encounters and remarkable macro life. Choose your region around the season, your experience and the diving you love.
Julien, Diving Advisor
Tulamben is great for beginners. It’s a fantatic experience to dive the US Liberty Wreck just off the beach. Good marine life including sharks. Tulamben is also not so expensive and easily accessible by road from South Bali.
I completely agree with you Tempo Dulu. I did my Open Water Advanced on the Liberty Wreck in Bali and it was amazing. This is I think one of the of top 3 best wreck dives in the World.
I dived on the Liberty wreck in December and it really was a fantastic experience. The wreck is easily accessible from the beach and on your way from the shore to the wreck you swim through fantastic eel garden. Marine life is really very good. I have not seen sharks, but saw one giant turtle, which looked amazing swimming among the ship debris.
it was fun RRRRRRIIIIIIGHHHT
Hi Everybody, the auto reply to my email asked that I post my question on the blog, so I hope this is the right place! I’ll be in Indonesia for work, with the opportunity to dive 2 days while staying in Nusa Dua. I’m hoping you have some recommendations on diving and dive shops in/near Nusa Dua. I’m not keen to take a long bumpy boat trip, which is what people describe from that area, but am excited to do some good diving. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance! S.
I went there recently and made a load of dive videos if anyone wants to check them out: LINK REMOVED, this links to my scubatopia.co.uk youtube page that I just set up a couple of days ago. I hope you like them!
Snorkellers head to Amed! Relaxing laidback beach, easy access, amazing underwater life. You can spend hours there!
If you like to deep dive, Bunaken in Manado Sulawesi is good choice, since mostly dive spot in Bunaken is wall…
I’m really satisfied to dive overthere, especially with the best dive center I’m doing with, is Larascasse Dive center.
Mansinum Cross Wreck, Manokwari, Papua. The Cross wreck site is a 40m long Japanese patrol boat lying on sand bottom at 19m depth, just outside a large concrete cross standing on Pulau Mansinum, Manokwari, Papua. Various colorful hard & soft corals, crinoids, starfish, angelfish, butterflyfish, trumpetfish, yellow-back fusilier, and other reef fish were spotted. Visibility is good (over 10m). Sometimes the current is strong during the low tide.
In late March my husband Stephen and I went on the MV Black Manta Komodo trip. We had dived Raja Amput the previous year and so our expectations were high. We were not disappointed. The liveaboard was comfortable and well managed but the diving was sublime. The crew did everything to make my life easier as jave has a previous back injury and have to be handed all the heavy gear in the water or on the dingy. The currents were a bit stronger than in RA. One day at a site called Manta Alley we saw eight huge manta rays swimming about and then the stopped and seemed to freeze in the water as the smaller fish cleaned them. One of those wonderous and humbling moments a diver relishes. Thoroughly Recommended.
Hi
Thanks for that info.
My wife and I had planned a trip to Palau next year, but overcrowded comments and Japanese and US divers have put us of.
Being Brits living in NZ and now having dived over forty different countries we are into Nudi’s.
Dived Uepi again in Sept so need something special and maybe a liveaboard is best option so thanks for your comments
I love Nudis as well I have logged over 1000 dives in Indonesia and worked on livaboards in Raja Ampat and Komodo
For Nudis my favorite place has been Sangeang Api above Sumbawa amazing diving on an active Volcano it’s the one you can see smoking from North Komodo so many types of Nudis, pigmy seahorses, frogfish
Also s favorite is diving around Amed and Tulumben Gili Selang, Soraya, Melasti and Sidem
hey I’m going to Bali next week-end for diving. Any recommendations? :))
my last dives were in the Mediterranean, in Turkey Kas, Kas (Kalkan), Cesme, Adrasan. Warm water and good visibility
Hope you’ll enjoy diving in Bali. I visited there twice & did diving in Tulamben (USS liberty wreck), Padangbai & Nusa Dua. Not bad, & saw many fishes. You may contact my dive guide in Denpasar, Agus Sumanjaya (PADI instructor, mobile phone: (62)818362900, email: sumanjaya08@yahoo.com), &/or contact Baliku Holiday (mob. phone: (62)81999004554, info@balikuholiday.com). I run Hotel Mangga in Manokwari, West Papua, where has excellent wreck dive sites. My hotel also has diving & tour service. If you’re interested to visit here, please feel free to contact info@mangga-hotel.com. Cheers!
been to amed last week and stayed at Puri Wirata. Amed is good for beginner divers with diverse ecosystem, calm water, and its good for relaxing. It was a great escape! I recommend puri wirata for those planning to go to Amed, with great service, good food, clean rooms, very nice dive masters and equipments.
Hi julian i dived bali last august to september last year with my wife christine and brother in law and sister in law ian kerry . we started of with a 10 day safari with blue seasons bali .,the trip was well organised and accomodation was great, we started in north and dived singaraja, menjangen kubu,amed and tulamben. once we finnished the safari we returned to sanur for a couple of days before heading of to padangbai to dive with a small outfit geko dive, whom i must say were a well organised outfit small and very freindly ,with geko we dived mimpang ,tepekong,crystal bay and of coarse manta point,we also did local sites as well .we will be returning this year for a lot longer trip and would like to highly recomend team geko cederic and liv and all the crew will welcome you all with open arms and make sure your trip will be a special adventure,well on that if you get there before us have a bintang for us Cheers
Very pleased you enjoy the trip in Indonesia. Just come back to Indonesia, and find other beautiful places that you should visit and stay. Maybe http://www.jakpost.travel could be a good recommendation for you to find another interesting destinations in Indonesia
Just back from a week diving in Komodo National Park; the best sites we have ever visited. Batu Bolong, Manta Alley, Crystal Rock and Castle Rock were amazing for the profusion of species and the size of inhabitants, turtles, mantas, sharks, giant trevally, dog-tooth tuna, massive schools of sweetlip and coral that seems healthy and colourful. Strong currents, but if you are fairly experienced and choose a good dive company, it is the experience of a lifetime. We chose Divine Diving in Labuan Bajo and we thank them for a look into one of the world’s best sites. Planning to return in June/July.
Hello,
I will be in Jakarta for a weekend and was wondering if anyone could tell me what the best dive site is to squeeze in for one day.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Mike
Hi Mike,
You can check out Dive Centers based in Jakarta. I’m sure they are offering dives in nearby sites.
Myself & a friend are going to Indonesia for 10 weeks. We are both Open Water but fairly experience (both > 50 dives) and have already dived Vietnam, Thailand, Barrier Reef & Egypt.
When we were on the GBR some dive operators offered to let you live on the boat / free dives in return for helping with the cooking, cleaning for other paying customers etc. Does anyone know if a similar scheme exists in Indonesia?
Hi Adam!
I actually don’t know of any dive operators, who does that. But we’ll let you know once we know of some operators who does that arrangement.
Hello Adam,
Are you still here in Indonesia? If you want to find great dive sites, the place to go is Bali!
I am also not aware of such services that you mention, however you should take note that here in Bali, Mola Mola season is just about to start ! It will be worth the trip! You have an option to go with dive safari, such as written here : http://www.baliocean.com/en/dive_safaris.blueseason
It is really a pity if you have come so far to Indonesia, and never visit this place, and see sunfishes..
This is a really inlegtilent way to answer the question.
Hi! I am planning a trip to the GBR and I would love to do something like this to cut down on costs! What was the company that you did this through??
Kaitlyn
hey kaitlyn,
I was on a boat out on the GBR (departed from Cairns) last week and did exactly that volunteering/hosting. The company’s called Divers Den (don’t now about other company’s offering that). You’re on the boat for 4 days/4 nights and you can do up to 4 dives a day (only 2 on both first and last day) (including night dives and, if you’re lucky, even a flouro dive for free which was one of the best experiences I’ve ever made so far..). The work schedule is quite tough though if you choose to go for all the 4 dives per day but it’s worth it, especially the night and flouro dives. Inlcuded is accommodation (but don’t expect to get a room like the passengers), 3 meals a day + all the dive gear you need. Very good to improve your dive skills in a short time and to safe some money because diving here on the GBR is quite expensive..but before you can do the liveaboard hosting, you need to do at least one day trip hosting on one of their vessels and purchase a crew shirt for 35AUD, but still the value you get is worth it..the dive sites are propably not the world’s best but there’s still a lot to explore
Just visited Amed, with my son and my wife, we dove everyday for two weeks, including Tulamben wreck, wall and coral wall, we dove the wall and pyramids at Jemeluk, Japanese wreck, To Nusa Penida, Mantas and of course the Mola Mola. We had a great time, we dove with Ecodive, based in Amed. A Canadian owner, John, extremely nice, professional person with absolutely the greatest and polite staff. I completed SSI Dive Guide and Divemaster with them, and have decided to return for DCS and Instructor. The diving was great, couldn’t keep my 14 year old son out of the water, he finished with over 30 dives in the two weeks, he dove mainly with the dive guide Ketut very pleasant, and my son absolutely loved diving with him, almost like a big brother. Great trip….. If in Amed check out Ecodive.
Dived Islands round Komodo in July on Damai 11 Livaboard
found the diving pretty good although we were restricted to certain areas due to supposed bad weather in the areas we would have liked to dive.
The boat once great for space and just 9 divers was so expensive and we are sure we could have dived with another boat for a lot less and seen more.
Would like to dive thearea again as parts were pretty cool.
Maybe being just going for diving the super Over the top boat and price was wasted on us.
We gave overall trip 6/10
Beautiful pictures, it really makes you want to go scuba diving in Indonesia.
Indonesia Dangerously Beautiful! Definitely agree with you, Indonesia has many beautiful places to dive (dive spot) as you have mentioned before like in Weh Island (Sumatera), Bali Island, Gili’s Island (Lombok), Komodo Island, Bunaken (Celebes), Wakatobi (Celebes) and also Raja Ampat (Papua). Indonesia also has many other beautiful dive spots like Bangka Island, Banda Island, Alor (Mollucas), Derawan Archipelago (Borneo) and many more.
just done my PADI certification last week at Tulamben. As a beginner i find the location is just perfect!. The beach located right in front of the hotel – Puri Madha which is just 20 meters away .. calm current .. really good ! for those who brings small kids .. you can leave them play at the pool while diving, they can see you before you descend ..
I am an Advance OWD with 210 immersions, from Guayaquil, Ecuador
I was diving for a week in Bali on April 2012, at the Crystal Divers Shop.
They have a nice dive shop and accommodations with their own pool for classes and refreshment. They have fair prices and an excellent group of instructors and master divers.
I was in the group of Amin, a local instructor that has the magic to find mola mola, mantarays, sharks and all kind of those peculiar species on the reefs of Bali.
Pandang Bay is very nice to start with; Candidasa requires an Advanced OWD training; Nusa Penida/Lenbungam/ Manta Point is the best place, specially at Crystal Point; and finally Tulamben for all kind of divers that enjoy shore diving.
With Crystal Divers you can do 2 or 3 dives a day, including night dives.
What I find so inttieserng is you could never find this anywhere else.
Nice Post about diving in Indonesia, In this beautiful picture,the viewer will really try to have diving with that place.
Ambon/’Global Dive Center’
Originally Posted by hughrster View Post
A dozen of us tried to visit Ambon last year with John Edward Sidjibat of Global Diving. Paid $1000 deposit, then could not get any response from him or Blue Rose. With only a week or so to go before flying out we had to divert to Manado – Bunaken – where we had some splendid diving.
Our John eventually got back to us, and promised to refund the deposit. More foot dragging, then he promised 75% refund because his business was suffering from bad debts. This has now gone on for a year.
Does anyone know about either Mr Sidjibat or Blue Rose? Do they really exist or is it a scam?
Thanks in advance for any info.
One reply from France:
Yes I have had some mails with that Mr.John Sidjibat who was at some time uselessly taking care of Blue Rose Marketing. At the time he started to interfere into my relationships with Blue Rose i knew that was over. To put it simple, this guy is highly unreliable and a joke : his only use was to inflate the prices and intriduce more chaos into the organization, so that I was at one day waiting at Laha wharf for my diveboat that never came.
I suggest you complain to the owner of Blue Rose, M.Augustinus Tanumiharjo. PM me if you want the mails.
If anyone has more and better particulars, please post.
Thanks
Hughrster
Me and my wife did a few dives with Bali Scuba.. Did the wreck dive at tulamben , USS Liberty and also the Tulamben wall drop .. Simply amazing .. The wreck is still very intact and the visibility is good.. Really recommend all to check out this 2 dive spots .. The current is not that strong however the shore entry was a bit tough as we experience strong waves on that day. But other that that it was a great dive.. A lot of colorful fishes n sea snakes and if your lucky you will get to see a huge school of yellow fishes , prob in the hundreds.
The next day we tried our luck with manta ray and mola mola but we were unlucky as the water was a bit warm..got to check out BaliScuba as they are great n wonderful guides..
Have been to Pulau Weh 2 weeks ago (with Rupiah Titra Dive Centre). Lovely weather, nice people, great experience. Although the current there is a bit stronger than my other experience, but with the experienced dive guards (Isfan & Mun Nandar) there we saw variety of creatures, from micro to huge guys. Thanks to the great experience and im planning to visit there every year.
Interesting posts. Indonesia is a maritime country with many islands and straits around him. This country certainly has a lot of spots for scuba diving. very interesting to know. because this activity is quite fun and thrilling. nice post. thanks.
I love Indonesian people visited dive sites
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Hi, I wish to make a solo diving trip to Indonesia for 1 week or so. But am on a real tight budget. I have dived in Pulau Weh which is real value for money.
Was wondering if there’s any cheap & good dive centers (or LOB) in Indonesia that you can recommend? Lombok?
FYI the likes of Raja Ampat or anywhere in Sulawesi is currently WAY OUT of budget for me.
Thanking you in advance !
Cheers
Bluelagoon
Hello,
I’m a fairly new diver (25 dives) trying to decide between going to Palau and Sulawesi in May.
Do you have any advice?
Thank you
Hi,
Trying to plan a dive trip in Indonesia in March second half this year. I’d have about 8 days, could you please recommend a few dive sites for (very excited) beginners? Thanks!
I am going on a live aboard departing Sarong on December 6. I am very confused as far as flights and timing are concerned. I can leave from JFK, I just need to be in Sarong on December 6. I know there are many routes, I am looking for the most expedient and economical routes. Although I am carrying my dive equipment so those airlines that do not have 20kg. limits are preferred. Can you suggest any travel agencies that could be of help?
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If you are a beginner and you want to do a snorkeling, you can try to snorkel in Pulau Tidung. And if you want to dive and you are a beginer try to dive in Tulamben. It will make you feel great!
There is new recently discovered jewel in diving at Una Una Volcano.
Full of fishes and whole healthy coral ecosystem.
Highly remote but really worth the visit. now there is airport service to 1 hour away only.
Sanctum Una Una is the only resort providing diving service there
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I wish I could share my pictures from diving in Raja Ampat here! The colors are mesmerizing and oh the varieties! My company do liveabord trip for 7 days with as much dives as possible. Heaven on earth! LINK REMOVED
I’ve made some dive videos of Indonesia and put them online, they’re on Scubatopia.co.uk
I went to Amed in Bali, Gili T and Komodo recently and made a load of dive videos if anyone wants to check them out: LINK REMOVED, this links to my scubatopia.co.uk youtube page that I just set up a couple of days ago. I hope you like them!
Thanks for such a great article.This motivates me to do scuba diving again and again.I have done scuba diving with Gomantak scuba.Only PADI dive centre in malvan,maharashtra.It was great experience with them.Dream to dive in Indonesia once in my life. LINK REMOVED
Hello John! I’m happy you had a great experience and that you love scuba diving. That said, please note that the comment section is not for link promotion and that it’s more useful to fellow scuba divers if you review and give tips on destinations which the page your commenting on is about. This page is about diving in Indonesia, but the dive center you mention is Indian. Hope this helps for future comments. Safe bubbles!