Nusa Dua - Tanjung Benoa

Dive sessions by boat

• Experience level: Beginner & Advanced
• Reef: coral garden down to 18 m
• Visibility: 10 to 15 m
• Currents: none to light
• Dive depth: 3 to 18 m

Perfect for starting, Check Dive, first try, refreshment course and dive training. Many opportunities for water sports, like Jet Ski, Parasailing, Banana boat, deep sea fishing etc.

Menjangan - National Park

Dive sessions by boat with lunch break on the island

• Experience level: Beginner & Advanced
• Reef: steep face
• Visibility: 10 to 15 m
• Currents: none to light
• Dive depth: 3 to 40 m

Nusa Menjangan is an island (national park) with white beaches and a boat ride of 25 minutes away from the mainland. The diving site is very diverse and at the different dive sites you can find almost all sorts of tropical fish and many varieties of hard and soft corals. In one dive site you might find sharks, ocean turtles and big fish. The indonesian government has limited the number of divers per day in these sites.

Dive site rating: good

Tulamben

Batu Kelebit - Kubu dive sessions from shore, ship wreck

• Experience level: Beginner & Advanced
• Reef: ship wreck (30 m), house reef (20 m), Drop Off (70 m)
• Batu Kelebit and Emerald (40 m)
• Visibility: 15 to 25 m
• Currents: light to medium
• Dive depth: 5 to 40 m

The Tulamben Wreck Liberty (length ca. 120 m / width ca. 16 m) is a good dive site. Thanks to the proximity to the beach this wreck is easily accessible for beginners and advanced divers. The USAT Liberty was a freighter that was torpedoed by a japanese submarine in 1942 and heavily damaged. The attempt to drag the ship to the harbour of Singaraja failed. So the crew decided to put the ship down near Tulamben and unload the cargo. The ship stayed there for the next 21 years until an eruption of the volcano Agung pushed the ship deeper into the ocean. At the wreck you can find all sorts tropical reef fish, fish swarms and many sorts of hard and soft corals. A paradise for photographers and for snorkling.

Dive site rating: very good

Amed / Cemeluk

Dive sessions by boat & Dive sessions from shore

• Experience level: Beginner & Advanced
• Reef: multiple reefs down to 50 m
• Visibility: 15 to 30 m
• Currents: none to light
• Dive depth: 3 to 30 m

Amed is a small fisher village in the north-east of Bali with a main economy of salt production. In this bay there is a beautiful reef and the dive sites can be reached within minutes using a small fisher boat. The bay is quite diversified, as you can find steep face as well as reef slopes of 45°. Very noteworthy is the beautiful coral garden (hard and soft corals). Besides there also are the whole range of tropical reef fish and many sorts of nudibranch. Perfect coral reef also beyond 40 m depth.

Rating: good

Gili Biaha - shark cave

Dive sessions by boat

• Experience level: Advanced (depending on tides)
• Reef: steep face, 45° descend
• Visibility: 15 to 30 m
• Currents: none to strong
• Dive depth: 3 to 35 m

Gili Biaha, a big rock in the waterway of Lombok. On the inside of the sickle there is a stair-like descending steep face and a grotto, carving itself into the rock 9 m below the surface. Inside the grotto there are almost always sleeping whitetip reef sharks, lobster and other sorts of crabs. Due to the position of the cliff in the open sea you might spot big fish like manta or ocean sunfish, mola mola. The currents are strong and the coral growth very flat, while still dense.
Here you can enjoy the sight of sharks and, with a bit of luck, sea snakes, nudibranch and ocean turtles.

Rating: very good

Tj. Bias Putih

Tj. Bias Putih is located at the main land, right next to a beautiful natural white sandy beach. The shallow fringing reef descends to a depth of 25 m and is very well suited for snorkling, starters diving and for advanced divers.

Rating: good

Gili Tepekong & Gili Mimpang

Dive sessions by boat

• Experience level: Advanced
• Reef: steep face & coral garden
• Visibility: 15 to 30 m
• Currents: light to strong
• Dive depth: 3 to 35 m

This reef begins at a depth of 6 m and stretches out over three rocks in the open sea. In deeper zones, depending on daytime, we can discover sleeping whitetip reef sharks. We find all other sorts of tropical reef fish here and many varieties of feather stars. We end this dive session in the no-flow zone of a steep face, which is descending down to a depth of 50 m.

Rating: good to very good

Blue Lagoon & White Sand Beach (Bias Tugel)

Dive sessions by boat

• Experience level: Beginners & Advanced
• Reef: steep face & Coral Garden
• Visibility: 15 to 35 m
• Currents: light to medium
• Dive depth: 3 to 30 m

In the Blue Lagoon of Padang Bay you will several very beautiful Coral rocks. It's also very well suited for snorkling and night dives. In the shallow parts you mostly find Whitetip Reefsharks (Triaodon obesus). At the White Sand Beach there is a reef overgrown with soft and hard corals and a calm, quite white sand beach.

Rating: good

Nusa Lembongan - Blue Corner

Dive session by boat

• Experience level: Only Advanced & Professional
• Reef: 45° descend
• Visibility: 25 to 40 m
• Currents: light to strong
• Dive depth: 5 to 40 m

This dive site is located near a smaller island and has lots of currents. Due to the strong currents the growth of soft and hard corals is very flat. Still we find all sorts of tropical fish here, including murays. We start the dive in shallow water and drift with the current in a depth of 20 m, passing the island. At the end of the reef we come along the Blue Corner, where you can see Eagle Rays, Ocean Sunfish and other big fish.

Rating: Very Good to World Class

Nusa Penida S.D. & Sental - Toyapakeh & Ped

Dive session by boat

• Experience level: Beginner & Advanced (depending on currents)
• Reef: 45° descend
• Visibility: 25 to 40 m
• Currents: light to strong
• Dive depth: 5 to 40 m

These dive sites are the most beautiful in Bali. You'll find a very intact reef and coral blocks, all grown with hard and soft corals. Due to the relatively cool currents (25° C) there is the chance to meet manta ray, ocean sunfish etc., also dolphines at the surface. Very remarkable are the large numbers of tropical reef fish.

Rating: Very Good

Malibu Point & Batu Nungul - Nusa Penida

Dive session by boat

• Experience level: Beginner & Advanced
• Reef: 45° descend
• Visibility: 10 to 25 m
• Currents: none to light
• Dive depth: 3 to 30 m

This dive site, like all dive sites around Nusa Benida, has lush growth of hard and soft corals and the whole range of tropical reef fish. The dive session starts in shallow water, descending to 25 m and drifting with the current along the island. With a bit of luck we will spot big fish! Giant clams of all sizes live here.

Rating: Good

Manta Ray Point - Nusa Penida

Dive session by boat

• Experience level: Beginner & Advanced
• Reef: 45° descend
• Visibility: 10 to 25 m
• Currents: none, but light waves
• Dive depth: 3 to 18 m

One of the few dive sites in the world where you almost certainly find manta ray!

Rating: World Class

Cristal Bay - Gamat Bay - Nusa Penida

Dive session by boat

• Reef: Coral bay
• Visibility: 20 to 50 m
• Currents: light currents inside the bay, strong currents in the channel
• Coral growth: very dense soft corals (Octocorallia)
• Fish: countless coral fish and almost always big fish in the channel
• Highlight: bats (emerging in the cave is possible)

Cristal Bay and Gamat Bay are located in a small bay on the south side of the island Nusa Penida. In Cristal Bay you can emerge in a bat cave. Furthermore there is the chance of seeing big fish, like Ocean Sunfish (Mola Mola). At Gamat bay the whole bay is grown with numerous hard and soft corals and abundance of fish. Both dive sites are also well suited for snorkling.

Rating: Good to Very Good

Gili Selang

Dive session by boat & by shore

• Reef: fringing reef
• Visibility: 15 to 50 m
• Currents: none to strong, sometimes changing
• Coral growth: mainly soft corals
• Fish: lots of reef fish, at times big fish
• Highlights: Whitetip Reefsharks in shallow water

This small island lies north east of Bali, between Amed and Gili Biaha and is seperated from Bali only by a 12 m wide and 6 m deep channel. On the north side of the island there is a shallow lagoon where we start our dive. The lagoon is full of coral boomies, covered all over with soft corals, mostly christmas trees (Lithophytum arboreum) and Nephyta spec.  In between we find Sea Whips (Junceella fragilis).

Lots of reef fish can be spotted here and despite the relatively shallow lagoon with a maximum depth of 18 m, Whitetip Reefsharks (Triänodon obesus) will come by now and then. In the lagoon there is hardly any current, only the swell can be strong from time to time. When the condituion are suited, we might dive into a spectacular Drop off that is going deep in a 45° angle. There are dangerous currents there so its only possible for experienced divers. If we are lucky, we might meet Hammerhead Sharks (Sphyrna lewini) at 30 m.

Japanese Wreck

On the south side of Gili Selang the reef descends in a 45° angle into unreachable depths. There is chance of seeing big fish.

A bit north of Gili Selang there is a small wreck. Its name is unknown, so is the reason why it sank. The wreck lies in depths of 3 to 15 m upright at the reef and is grown all over in a very beautiful way, mostly by Christmas trees (Lithophytum arboreum) and soft corals (Nephthya spec.). The reef itself descends into deep water at 45°. It is grown with Thorn corals (Seriatopora hystrix).

Rating: Very Good to World Class

Angels Canyon - Batu Karang

For advanced divers, by boat.

Raiting: good

Gilimanuk Bay - Secret Bay

Dive sessions by shore

• Experience level: Beginner / Trial dive / Refreshment course / Dive course
• Macro fotographers and UW filmers will shoot things you have NEVER seen before!
• Reef: no reef - only sand
• Depth: max. 8 m

Rating: World Class

Sanur Reef

This dive site is currently not recommended.