Triton Bay - Raja Ampat

Kaimana - Sorong 11 Nights - A way to go through the highlights of Triton Bay, north and south of Raja Ampat.

Day 1
Arrival to Kaimana and departure

Days 2 - 4: Triton bay

This is bound to be the next hot spot. The diversity of colors and shape of the soft corals are a dream come true for every diver, not to forget the fish life, in general extremely healthy reefs with all kind of fish in them.7th heaven will be our firs stop and it will give a real touch of the area, crowded with fis, schooling grunts, giant trevalies, giant jacks, barracudas, some solitary manta, giant turtles, walking shark, giant.

There is no much fishing in the bay, and as a result the amount of fish is spectacular; Gt Rock is the perfect example; it has hundreds of grunts and red snappers hiding behind the small pinnacles. Enormous sweet lips in a frozen image posing for you while getting cleaned, giant trevallies and tunas are constantly patrolling and the fusiliers aggregate by the thousands - another must in your list

Legendary Larry Smith did his last dive trip to this area, and he became amazed with the biodiversity that it is found here, We have a lot to thank Larry, he introduce Indonesia to the rest of us, if not for him, we would not be looking for small critters and certainly Indonesia would not be as famous as it is now. A little tribute of the diving community was to name this dive site after him. Larry's heaven honors his memory and all what he fought for. It is the dive site that broke the world record in counting different species; it has more biodiversity that any other place in the planet!!! The south corner is like Larry said heaven.

Pay attention: amazing is the experience of getting on the middle of fields of black coral, not seen anywhere else, but do not get too amazed, you would not be the first pro in forgetting and loosing a camera down there!!!

The last dives will be dedicated to spot the new species of flasher wrasse, just beautiful. We will proceed to go with the tenders through hundreds of tiny islands, turquoise water under us - a top side wonder, we will complete the area with a cultural visit to the ancient paintings on the rocks

Day5
Air Tanjung. Incredible waterfalls, unique to take pictures, great for fun. Nice and relaxing diving near Mommon bay. A mandatory stop that will refresh our minds and bodies and get us ready for what is next

Day 6
Pulau Pisang. Beautiful archipelago some 30 miles south of Missol. Giant elephant ears, super healthy corals, schools of fish, mantas and turtles will be waiting for us in this remote and untouched treasure.

Days 7 and 8: Missol

Fiabacet. The most famous site of the area, a few small rocks the, once you get in the water, will surprise even the most expert diver for its display: the soft corals are great and the forest of fans out of this world. The fish life cannot be forgotten, as plenty of trevalies, jacks and mackerel come close to look for a prey, the area is protected and already juvenile grey reefs are setting there

In Wayilbatan the passage offers another spectacular dive, in between two islands the mild currents have created a gallery of fans, of all kinds and sizes. At the entrance nice bommies with soft corals, sweet lips and turtles..great!! Pulau Boo is yet another 5 star dive, towards the south part schooling batfish, in the north a nice wall completely decorated and in the middle the 3 holes where either early in the morning or late in the afternoon the light can create many effects.

Day 9
Missol. Pulau Pelé will be the next stop, and kaleidoscope reef is an amazing dive. A combination of fans, soft corals of beautiful colors, fish and dancing anchovies in the shallows will make the morning unforgettable.Outside the main island small pinnacles offer some of the most incredible underwater formations of the trip.

Day 10
Blue water mangroves: A recent hot spot. A few places in the world offer you the chance to dive under mangroves in crystal clear water, a truly unique experience. The pyjama cardinal and the archer fish are very charismatic, but there is much more, healthy coral reefs a few feet from the mangroves, and looking good onto it slat water crocs have been spotted as well as mantas, on the mainland the locals claim to have dugongs, we shall see

We must say that after an attack by a salt water crocodile, the diving in the area has been stopped for a while. we need to keep up with reports about the situation.

Day 11
We finish the trip with a superb manta dive near Airborei, a cleaning station on top of which shy-less mantas hang. We move to Kri to do the last dive among schooling jacks and barracudas, and looking for wobbiegong and white tip sharks

Day 12
Arrival and transfer to the airport

Notes

Halmahera Sulawesi

Ternate - Bitung 11 Nights: An exploratory trip from the heart of the Moluccas to the North of Sulawesi.

Day 1
Departure from Ternate

Day 2
Exploratory Ternate Bay

Day3
Exploratory Halmahera north

Day 4
Eploratory Halmahera north

Day 5
Exploratory Halmahera north

Day 6
Exploratory Mayu

Day 7
Exploratory Tifore

Day 8
Exploratory Gangga

Day 9
Bunaken national Park

Day 10
Bunaken national

Day 11
Exploratory Bangka

Day 12
Arrival to Bitung and transfer to the airport

Derawan

Tarakan - Tarakan 11 Nights
Little by little all the old logistic and political problems are being left behind, and areas like Derawan can be place back into the map of the diving world, here is where Indonesia better combines a bit of everything and both pelagic and macro life live in abundance. We will combine the famous Sangalaki and Maratua and head for other atolls, reef and islands a bit more remote. The adrenaline is guarantee.

Day 1
Arrival at Tarakan and departure

Day 2
Exploratory Karang Baliktaba and Pulau Tanjang

Day 3
Exploratory Pulau Derawan Karang Masimbung and karang Pinaka

Day 4
Sangalaki. Mantas and more mantas. That if the turtles let us see. There are hundreds of green turtles and at night we will go to see them laying eggs. About an average of 20 turtles come every day to lay their eggs, we will organize in conjunction with Sangalaki resort and nice dinner on land an get a chance to see the new born ones and get some more information about all the programs they are developing.

Day 5
Exploratory Karang Malalungan

Day 6
Exploratory Karang lintang and Pulau Sambit

Day 7
Exploratory Pulau Balambangag and Muara reef

Day 8
Exploratory Karang Gosungang

Day 9
Exploratory Nunakan Bakungang

Day 10
Kakaban: Great wall diving, schooling barracudas, jacks and sharks!!!, in their shallows we can also find the nice looking and refine leopard shark.

Day 11
Kakaban: visit to the jelly fish lake, one of the few ones in the world.

Day 12
Arrival, disembark and transfer to the airport.

Komodo

Laboanbajo-Laboanbajo 11 nights
We believe Komodo is still on the top of the diving scale in Indonesia. A few years of protection have paid off, the state of the hard corals in the north is outstanding, the amount of fish, its size and the critter life has increased, and so have the arrival and regular encounter with pelagic. The current will play a major role, and it is essential to know the area in order to pick up the best time for each dive, as for the south, we have FOC new 5mm wetsuits at your disposal, to be able to truly enjoy this area without the inconvenience of getting cold too soon.

Day 1:
Arrival in Laboanbajo and departure.
Dive Tatawa Besar: a classic in komodo, covered with orange soft corals, schooling bat fish, a beautiful shallow hard coral garden. Night dive in Sabolan. Look for the Star gazers.

Day 2:
Tatawa Kecil offers great dive, a different topography formation and the plush of the mantas. Batu balong is a small island in the middle of current city, plenty of sharks in the depths and a visibility forever makes this dive very productive. We will easily enjoy the whole day around this area.

Day 3 & 4:
Horseshoe Bay in Rinca, the home to the famous Cannibal Rock, Yellow wall or torpedo Alley. It is difficult to describe Cannibal Rock; the waters will be colder than before and the visibility a bit less, but there is such an abundance of all kind of life's that it will be stick in our memories for a long time: all kind of critters can be spotted here, giant frog fish or rinophias, whte tips or turtles, resident unique nudies or blue octopus. Yellow wall, as its name indicates, is covered with soft corals, no place for our hands, the only way will be to find a spot and lean on the pointers. The lady bug, the sea apple, the fire urchins with coleman shrimps or zebra crabs are particularly easy to spot in this areas. Torpedo alley is another of the legendary night dives in Indonesia, apart from the rays there are frog fish, innumerable crabs, Bobbitt worm.

Day 5:
Langkoi: mantas, mantas and mantas and sometimes MolaMola at Manta Point.A great day!!! At night we find shelter and do a nice night dive in an easy wreck, look for the frog fish.

Day 6,7 & 8:
Gilli Lawa Laut and Gillin Darat: The biggest concentration of life in Komodo. Schools of surgeon fish, barracudas, jacks passing sharks, sweet lips and napoleon fish, turtles lately we had dolphins fishing in front of us. Unbelievable dives!!! Worth the whole trip!!

Day 9:
Sangeang: The Volcano slopes give way to a black sand bottom. In bubble reef one can experience the sensation of hot gases coming from the sand and the misture between a coral reef and black sand, one of everybody's favourites with some leaf fish, blue and juvenile ribbon eel and big school of snappers among it.Black magic has some nice black coral formation on the sand and there is a chance to see ornate ghost pipe fish and tozeuma shrimps. Both night dives, either there or in Bontho are fantastic, let us find the elusive boxer crab.

Day 10:
Banta: We will be targeting one of the most beautiful reefs in Indonesia: GPS; expect some pelagic action and one of the good places to see grey reef sharks, barracudas, green and hawksbill turtle and the rare oceanic trigger fish. On the northwest corner Stairway to heaven is a very healthy wall, lots of action all over, mantas may pass by. K2 and star wars are nice alternatives for bit of a less demanding dives, due to the lack of strong current, nice reefs, lots of life, big cuttle fish, leaf fish, Pegasus sea moth and green turtles will be the highlights. It's a small world is one of the best night dives of the trip, potential to see everything, from hunting lionfish to bobbit worm, stone fish, stargazer, bobtail squid..a great chance.

Day 11:
Sebayor Kecil & Sebayor Besar: Very good hard corals, good fish life in between the islands. Perfect for wide angle. Bat fish, Bumphead parrots or mobluas among their visitors.

Day 12:
Arrival to Laboanbajo and departure: Starts the count down for your next trip.

Notes

Alor

Maumere-Maumere 11 Nights

Day 1: Arrival at Maumere, Dive underneath Maumere Pier, great for Macro. Lots of Nudies, mantis, crabs, school of resident juvenile bat fish, late in the afternoon mandarin and picturesque dragonets. Night dive at Wodong, sandy bottom with some coral formation, we will be in the search of mimic octopus!!

Day 2: Papagarang: A very nice slope with some nice hard and soft corals. Very abundant fish life, among them juvenile and blue ribbon eel, leaf fish or soft coral crabs, in Pula Babi we will be diving the wall, great fish life: bumphead parrots, green and hawksbill turtles and around here is one of the few places we have spotted a whale shark??

Day 3: Serbete: The south west side offers a lovely wall, combining big stuff like yellow fin tuna or rainbow runners with a numerous variety of nudies and soft coral crabs. Adonara ofeers us some spectacular diving, its slopes give shelter to amazing concentration of glass fish and their eaters: frog fish, leaf fish or stone fish among them. Lovely macro life and great bummies

Day 4: Pulau Soangi: a small island outside the Adonara strait, the reefs are a mixed between slope and walls, hard coral, soft coral and rock formation. Lots of fish habitat its waters and here there are big chances of close encounters with white tips or nurse sharks.

These waters are part of the migration route of some species of whales, especially sperm whales and in Lamalera traditional hunting whales is their mean of living. Protected by the Unesco, this style of life has preserved to more modern system and it is entirely orientated to provide food to its people; a mixed feeling of sadness for the whale and excitement about the remote possibility of seeing how the use traditional ways of whale hunting. The rock formation at the entrance of the bay offers an interesting dive, decorator and boxer crabs, lobsters, and other crustaceous will be coming at night

Day 5 and 6: Biangaban: One of the best macro-muck dives in Indonesia!!! A combination of black sand and some hard coral reef, its bottom is famous for its critters: blue fin lion fish, juvenile, blue and yellow ribbon eels, coleman shrimp, zebra crabs, different kind of frog fish, rinophias all we can imagine can be seen there. Here is when the policy of unlimited diving plays a major role, you could be diving there forever!!!!

Day 7: Pulau Pura: Some of the most friendly people of Indonesia live in this small island, always ready with a smile and free diving close to us with their out of coconut and glass home made goggles. Fantastic diving around the island, the impressive clown alley where for miles we can dive among hundreds of anemonies, the mandarin fish dive near the village, the walls at both sides of it, where incredible fish life aggregates together with great macro are examples of it. Near the school of the village there are chances of encounters with fox sharks, only diveable with slag tide, due to the down currents, this wall is a truly spectacular dive, plenty of fish and pelagic action!!

Day 8: Alor kecil: The signature dive of the area is Karl's dream. An underwater seamountain only diveable under certain conditions, the presence of the currents bring uncountable fish life and the excitment of pelagians, on the other hand, we need to be caution with the currentn and time the dive perfectly. But the dream it is a reality and it is one of the top dives in the country: big schools of snapper, banner fish, millions of fish and around them, giant trevalliers, tunas, some sharks...amaizing. Let our team programm those dives in the best interest of the trip, according to the tides and keep your eyes open...the show is down there!!!! The night dive close to the Pertamina Pier is fantastic with lots of mucky friendly critters easy to be spotted.

Day 9: North Pantar: Beautiful coral bummies on the slope give way little by little to a dramatic wall. Lots of crinoids with shrimps and cling fish and numerous nudiebranchs can be seen on the slope. Sponges with hary squat lobsters, orangutan crabs and pygmeys are to be expected on the wall.

Day 10: Lamalera island: Near Ili Ape Vulcano there are a series of u nderwater seamountains not to be mished by any diver. A very complete dive area, large ammount of reef fish mixed with schools of surgeons, bumphead parrots and turtles. If you are interested in macro, there are many different species of nudies and often the ornate and robust goshts pipe fish are found as well. Delighful place!!

Day 11: Pasir Pangang: we will finish the trip diving the east wall. There is a nice cave, where often white tips like to lay down. The wall has got some of the biggest sponges of the area and nice fans and soft corals, a very nice way to finish an exciting trip

Dragon Molas

Dragon and Molas 11 Night

Mola-molas, or ocean sunfish, visit the reefs of Bali only for a few months every year. The rest of the time they have a pelagic existence in the open sea. We depart at the end of their season and should be able to glimpse the molas. They like deep dropoffs and upwellings and can be found anywhere from 40 to 130 feet. The come in to get cleaned by bannerfish and angelfish as well as assorted wrasses.

Komodo will be at its peak in the north with excellent visibility and the famous critters arriving in big numbers. Dive will be done in the region from Sangeang and Rinca.

The Komodo National Park has been a huge success and is one of the best model programs the country has to offer in terms of preservation and conservation. This is why we believe Komodo park diving is still at the top of the diving scale in Indonesia. The state of the hard corals in the north is outstanding, the fish numbers have increased and the critter life has been abundant. To top it off, regular encounter with pelagic creatures like mantas and even sharks is on the rise.

Rinca and Horseshoe Bay can be cooler than northern sites so we have free (FOC) new 5mm wetsuits for our guests.

Day 1
Embarkment in Laboanbajo, departure to Tatawa already in the Komodo national Park : Tatawa Kecil. It has different undersea topography than what we will have been experiencing and also the great chance of seeing mantas. Batu Balong is a small island in the middle of a current area that attracts plenty of sharks and provides excellent visibility. The drift in Tatawa Besar is a classic in Komodo. The site is covered with orange soft corals, schooling batfish and a beautiful shallow hard coral garden.

Day 2
Early in the morning for a walk to see the famous dragons. Very close to the station we find Pantai Merah, a nice, small and very fishy reef with plenty of life. Look for painted frogfish and lots of nudies. We then move the boat a few miles to Padar to dive W reef, a submerged reef made out of 3 mini sae mountains.
Great for nudies!!!

Day 3
Horseshoe Bay in Rinca, the home to the famous Cannibal Rock, Yellow Wall and Torpedo Alley.
Waters will be colder than before and the visibility a bit less, but there is such an abundance of all kind of life that divers are too busy looking at the reef to notice. All kind of critters can be spotted here including giant frogfish and rhinopias, whitetip reef sharks and turtles, resident unique nudies and a blue octopus.

Yellow Wall, as its name indicates, is covered with soft corals. The unique lady bug, the sea apple, the fire urchins with Coleman shrimps and zebra crabs are particularly easy to spot in this area. Torpedo alley is another of the legendary night dives in Indonesia, apart from the rays there are frogfish, sea pens, numerous crabs and Bobbitt worms

Day 4
Langkoi: Mantas, mantas and mantas and sometimes MolaMola as well. We will have many opportunities to cavort with mantas here.

Day 5
Gili Lawa Laut: This has the biggest concentration of life in Komodo. Schools of surgeonfish, barracudas, jacks, passing sharks, sweetlips, Napoleon fish and sea turtles are common. Lately we have had dolphins fishing right in front of us. Unbelievable dives!!! Worth the whole trip!!

Day 6
Gili Lawa Laut and the passages in Gilli Lawa Darat:This is another day of adrenaline and incredible fish life!!!

Day 7
Banta: We will be targeting one of the most beautiful reefs in Indonesia: GPS. Expect good, manageable currents that bring in pelagic action.

We can see grey reef sharks, barracudas, green and hawks-bill turtles and the rare oceanic trigger fish. On the northwest corner Stairway to Heaven is a very healthy wall full of varied action. Mantas may pass by. K2 and Star Wars are nice alternatives as less demanding dives. They have nice reef with low current and big cuttlefish, leaf fish, Pegasus sea moths and green turtles.

It's a Small World is one of the best night dives of the trip. There is potential to see everything from hunting lionfish to bobbit worms, stonefish, stargazers and bobtail squid.

Day 8
Sangeang: The Volcanic slopes give way to a black sand bottom. At Bubble Reef one can experience the sensation of warm gases percolating through the sand. The mixture of coral reef and black sand is fascinating and all divers like to search for leaf fish, blue and juvenile ribbon eels and big schools of snappers.The dive site Black magic has some nice black coral formation on the sand and there is a chance to see ornate ghost pipefish and tozeuma shrimps. Both night dives, either there or in Bontho are fantastic. One almost sure bet is seeing the outstanding boxer crab.

Day 9
Moyo and Satonda. Moyo has absolutely great macro dive including the wonderpuss octopus as its most notable inhabitant. Satonda has a nice reef that is quite colorful. There's also a white sand slope where we can find some bommies with plenty to see like stonefish, pipefish, inimicus and pygmy seahorses among them. The island also has a marine lake and a colony of thousands of flying foxes that appear at night for an eerie show.

Day 10 and 11
Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Penida. Mola search. The Molas will be found in can be found anywhere from 40 to 130 feet. The come in to get cleaned by bannerfish and angelfish as well as assorted wrasses. The low impact size of our dive groups enhances our chances of multiple mola encounters. Molas can reach sizes of 4 tons and be over 15 feet tall.

Day 12
Arrival at Benoa harbor in Bali.

Banda Sea

Banda Sea
Day 1
Arrival to Maumere. Boarding and departure.

Day 2
Adunara: Through this narrow straits flow big amounts of water, so rich that attracts all kind of live, from the tiny pygmy to the majestic sperm whale. Adunara mixes all, and here we can focus on great macro dives or go for fishy reefs and some pelagic action. Pygmies or tunas, mantis or bumpheads

Day 3
Pulau Soangi-Lamalera A small island outside Kawula. Soangi offers a dive full of adrenaline. A rocky bottom, often hit by the swells during the windy season, it is a very interesting dive. White tips and nurse sharks, schools of surgeon, snappers. Lamalera is a world heritage side. One of the few places in the world where they still hunt for whales in a traditional way. Extremly interesting to see it, to talk to its people, and who knows. The chance to experience in first hand such a tradition. The diving outside is very nice, for both an afternoon macro dive or a night dive. Orang-utan crabs, nudies, ribbon eels. Quite a show.

Day 4
Pantar. Beangaban. The capital of the muck dive in this area. A fantastic spot!! Black sand and a coral reef create the perfect enviorment for the critter fans: rinophias, big or babies, frog fish, ribbon eals, coleman shrimps, dwarf and blue lion fish - a delight for our eyes and the lenses. The unlimited diving policy pays off well in such a site.

Day 5
Pulau Pura. The wall south of the village is beautiful, fishy and healthy. In Pura is where we can get the children in the water, they are a friendly community. They love to interact. We visit the village and they visit us underwater, with their wooden goggles. In the afternoon, we have a chance to dive with mandarin fish and the night dive in front of the village is fantastic.

Day 6
Gunung Api. Capital of the sea snakes in the world and another of the reasons to join the trip. This remote island has created the right shelter for the snakes; both olive and banded are found there in numbers never seen before. They are known to collaborate with jacks in a symbiotic alliance to hunt together, so far we have not witnessed such behaviour, but we keep on trying. Great view, thousands of fish, nice walls and huge fans and barrel sponges are the attraction for those not so interested in snakes

Day 7
Lucipara. A series of atolls half way in the Banda sea. Perfect visibility, healthy walls and the constant patrolling of tunas, mackerel, rainbow runners or wahoo make this, area very special.

Day 8

Banda Neira At the heart of the spice islands, Banda Neira offers not only some of the most interesting cultural experiences in Indonesia, but fantastic diving. Under its pier, the Mandarin fish have become almost as famous as the nut meg. The lava Flow will teach us how a reef can grow in less than 20 years..amazing!!

Day 9

Banda Time to dive some of the most fascinating pinacles in the Banda Sea: Batu Kapal. On our way out of the island, we will be diving Pulau Soangi, great walls, and good pelagic action including a few sharks.

Day 10

Nusa Laut. One of our favorite reefs, great combination of hard corals and white sand; an extremely healthy reef, lots of fish, bumpheads, schooling jacks, grey reefs, leopard sharks and dugongs have been spotted in several occasions

Day 11

Ambon.The last day will be dedicated to more Macro in one of the top places in the world. A trip to the city, with its amazing history in the afternoon, and an evening to enjoy a drink while remembering the good times of the trip.

Day 12
Ambon: Transfer to the airport and deparure

Notes

Banda & Missol

Ambon-Sorong 11 nights

Day 1 & 2
Arrival to Ambon. Boarding and departure.

Two great spots are attracting divers to this beautiful island: Laha and the Pertamina Wreck. The first one give us some of the best critters in Indonesia, among them the recently discover new species of Frog fish, rinophias, mimin octopus, zebra crabs. The wreck is a good alternative for those wanting a different dive, very fishy and nice soft corals

Day 3
Nusa Laut. One of our favorite reefs, great combination of hard corals and white sand; an extremely healthy reef, lots of fish, bumpheads, schooling jacks, grey reefs, leopard sharks and dugongs have been spotted in several occasions

Day 4 & 5
Banda It should be compulsory to pay a visit to this archipelago once in your lifetime. The people are incredible friendly, one can smell history in each corner, sightseeing along fort Belgica or Nutmeg plantations it is worth a trip on its own. But Banda has also fabulous diving. Batu kapal has some of the most beautiful fans in Indonesia, a series of underwater pinnacles are their home as they are for schools of pyramid, surgeon, banners. The lava flow is the next must. How may divers are not interested anymore in just dive across a hard coral garden?? Many. But no one will get bored while diving here. Since the last eruption in 1988, the lava flow has been transformed into a marvelous hard coral garden, an underwater Eden. The mandarin fish under the pier are the biggest ever to bee seen.

Day 6
Manuk is a very special island some 60 miles south of the Bandas. The biggest school of Barracudas in the Banda Sea are found here, impressive reefs, nice vis, turtles, dozen of snakes, sharks...a must!!

Day 7
Karang Hata.Great hard corals in the shallow, plenty of fish life with schools of Bumphead or white tip reefs sharks among its visitors. The Arch in Banda Besar is impressive. Highly decorated with fans and soft corals is a remarkable site. The corner of the reef gets busy when the current starts to hit.

Day 8
Koon: Too many fishes, has traditionally been a very productive dive. How its name indicates, the concentration of fish and schools can be outstanding, depending on the current. This is one the spots where we will be opening to do some exploration, in the last few times the diving has not been quite outstanding and the channels going through Seram look very promising

Day 9
Missol: We arrive to the southern part of Raja Ampat. Pulau Pelé will be the first stop, and kaleidoscope reef is an amazing dive. A combination of fans, soft corals of beautiful colors, fish and dancing anchovies in the shallows will make the morning unforgettable. In Wayilbatan the passage offers another spectacular dive, in between two islands the mild currents have created a gallery of fans, of all kinds and sizes. At the entrance nice bommies with soft corals, sweet lips and turtles..great!! Pulau Boo is yet another 5 star dive, towards the south part schooling batfish, in the north a nice wall completely decorated and in the middle the 3 holes where either early in the morning or late in the afternoon the light can create many effects.

Day 10
Missol: Fiabacet. The most famous site of the area, a few small rocks the, once you get in the water, will surprises even the most expert diver for its display: the soft corals are great and the forest of fans out of this world. The fish life cannot be forgotten, as plenty of trevalies, jacks and mackerel come close to look for a prey, the area is protected and already juvenile grey reefs are setting there. U must for every diver!!

Day 11
Missol: Farondi. With the right current the three sisters can be one of the top dives in raja Ampat. In the swim through there are schools of surgeon and snappers. Looking in the shallows me might see anchovies and the trevallies coming for them, the other surprise, mobulas!!! Outside the swim through, in both sides the walls held the biggest concentration of different tonalities of soft corals, all the colors of the spectrum are present: unbelievable!!! Killer Cave offers much more than the cave itself. South east from the cave the wall is indeed a great dive, plenty of fans and soft corals, in front of the cave, lots of cleaning station for bat fish and snappers.

Day 12
Arrival at Sorong and transfer to the airport

Raja Ampat

Sorong - Sorong 11 Nights
On this trip we will bring you all around Missol, for the first part of the trip, Shopping on the mangroves and finishing with a couple of days of very fishy dives in the north side of Raja Ampat.

Day 1
Sorong: Arrival and departure

Day 2
Missol Farondi: With the right current the three sisters can be one of the top dives in Raja Ampat. In the swim through there are schools of surgeon and snappers. Looking in the shallows me might see anchovies and the trevallies coming for them, the other surprise, mobulas!!! Outside the swim through, in both sides the walls held the biggest concentration of different tonalities of soft corals, all the colours of the spectrum are present: unbelievable!!! Killer Cave offers much more than the cave itself. South east from the cave the wall is indeed a great dive, plenty of fans and soft corals, in front of the cave, lots of cleaning station for bat fish and snappers. Inside the lagoon, the excursion is very exciting, great shallows to discover with the tenders, a bat cave. Both Gamfi and Damau also offer extraordinary diving, a wonderful way to start the trip

Day 3
East Missol: Not much is yet known about this area of Pulau pulau Daram, and that is exactly why we will be heading there, to explore this remote archipelago, for sure some great dives are waiting for us. As soon as we know more details we will updated in the web.

Day 4
Yilliet has a great dive, plenty of fish and nice corals, one of the fishiest dives on the south, the windows in Pulau Boo is memorable. Towards the south part schooling batfish, in the north a nice wall compeltly decorated and in the middle the 3 holes where either early in the morning or late in the afternoon the light can create many effects.

Day 5
Fiabacet The most famous site of the area, a few small rocks the, once you get in the water, will surprises even the most expert diver for its display: the soft corals are great and the forest of fans out of this world. The fish life cannot be forgotten, as plenty of trevalies, jacks and mackerel come close to look for a prey, the area is protected and already juvenile grey reefs are setting there. U must for every diver!!

Day 6
In Wayilbatan the passage offers another spectacular dive, in between two islands the mild currents have created a gallery of fans, of all kinds and sizes. At the entrance nice bommies with soft corals, sweet lips and turtles. Great!! Pulau Pel will be the last stop in this firs part, and kaleidoscope reef is a great tribute. A combination of fans, soft corals of beautiful colors, fish and dancing anchovies in the shallows will make it unforgettable

Day 7
blue water mangroves A recent hot spot. A few places in the world offer you the chance to dive under mangroves in crystal clear water, a truly unique experience. The pyjama cardinal and the archer fish are very charismatic, but there is much more, healthy coral reefs a few feet from the mangroves, and looking good onto it slat water crocs have been spotted as well as mantas, on the mainland the locals claim to have dugongs, we shall see

Day 8
explore west missol here we go, it is day D, for Dugons

Day 9
penemu. The fish life on this last part of the trip is amazing, and in any of these dives we can spot the majestic wobbegong shark. Bat fish and bumheads are regularly spotted as well as black tips in the shallows. 2 fantastic reefs, Barracuda Point and Melissa's Garden are home to thousand of fish, with a bit of current they will all go, one looking for plankton others looking for bigger food, the whole chain concentrated in a small area, in the shallows healthy hard corals and giant clams. The walls in Penemu are also impressive, many colors decorating it, and a huge school of bat fish in the sand at the bottom.

Day 10
Gam. Here we dive the reefs of Yanggelo, the entrance of a channel where barracudas patrol in the search of food. The corner offers a spectacular slope-wall, with fantastic fans, hard corals and incredible fish life.

Day 11
we finish the trip with a superb manta dive near Airborei, a cleaning station on top of which shy-less mantas hang. A fantastic way to finish a trip that show us the very best of all the areas in western Papua: North Raja Ampat, the mangroves, The south of Raja Ampat and Triton Bay

Day 12
arrival and transfer to the airport.

Raja Ampat Total

Special Papua: SORONG - KAIMANA 14 NIGHTS

DAY 1
Arrival to Sorong and departure.

DAY 2
Direct into the good fun with an early dive in Kri Corner, outstanding diving, concentrations of big fish, jacks and trevalies, white tips in the depths, let us not forget the shallow hard coral garden, one of the best we have ever seen, because of the corals and the life, out of this world. Sardine reef has everything but sardines, schooling fusiliers, snappers, grunts, bumpheads, encounters with turtles, wobbies and if you like to stay an admire a reef, some of the pinnacles are perfect for that. We will spend our first night in Batanta on our firs try for the picturesque dragonet.

DAY 3
We start the day with a superb manta dive near Airborei, a cleaning station on top of which shy less mantas hang.

DAY4
Penemu. Another fishy day, 2 fantastic reefs, Barracuda Point and Melissa's Garden are home to thousand of fish, with a bit of current they will all go, one looking for plankton others looking for bigger food, the whole chain concentrated in a small area, in the shallows healthy hard corals and giant clams. The walls in Penemu are also impressive, many colours decorating it, and a huge school of bat fish in the sand at the bottom.

DAY 5
Wayag. Great scenery. Excellent fish life in the pinnacles outside the bay. Schooling pyramid butterfly, surgeons. Opportunities to see some white tips or wobbiegong, bumphead parrots or turtles. There is a good trip to the top of an island with a superb view of the lagoon and the boat.

DAY 6
Waigeo. A day dedicated to Macro. Crustaceous crazy has an apealing name and to honour it we can find hairy squat lobsters, tozeuma and coleman shrimps, a good variety of nudies and many pygmy seahorses complete wonderful dives. At night the pearl farm pier is a must: epaulette sharks, octopus, frog fish..great!!

DAY 7
Waigeo-Gam. The passage gives an adrenaline shoot!! In between this small channel the currents pick up and we can easily drift for an hour flying on top of sharks, schooling fish and finding shelter in small protected areas where archer fish spit and soft corals come to the surface giving us a different feeling.

The pinnacles outside the west tip of Gam, offer encounters with barracudas, black and white tips and incredible amount of fish have selected theses healthy hard coral reefs as their home. Just beautiful!

DAY 8
Batanta. The capital of the muck dive in Raja Ampat: we have seen, almost all there is to be seen there: mimic and wonderpus, inimicus, picturesque and mandarin dragonets, frog fish. Excellent critter habitat!!!

DAY 9
Missol Farondi: With the right current the three sisters can be one of the top dives in Raja Ampat. In the swim through there are schools of surgeon and snappers. Looking in the shallows me might see anchovies and the trevallies coming for them, the other surprise, mobulas!!!

Outside the swim through, in both sides the walls held the biggest concentration of different tonalities of soft corals, all the colours of the spectrum are present: unbelievable!!! Killer Cave offers much more than the cave itself. South east from the cave the wall is indeed a great dive, plenty of fans and soft corals, in front of the cave, lots of cleaning station for bat fish and snappers. Inside the lagoon, the excursion is very exciting, great shallows to discover with the tenders, a bat cave. Both Gamfi and Damau also offer extraordinary diving, a wonderful way to start the trip

DAY 10
East Missol: Not much is yet known about this area of Pulau pulau Daram, and that is exactly why we will be heading there, to explore this remote archipelago, for sure some great dives are waiting for us. As soon as we know more details we will updated in the web.

DAY 11
Yilliet has a great dive, plenty of fish and nice corals, one of the fishiest dives on the south, the windows in Pulau Boo is memorable. Towards the south part schooling batfish, in the north a nice wall completely decorated and in the middle the 3 holes where either early in the morning or late in the afternoon the light can create many effects. Nice fish life around it and a huge school of bat fish to top it off.

DAY 12
Fiabacet The most famous site of the area, a few small rocks the, once you get in the water, will surprises even the most expert diver for its display: the soft corals are great and the forest of fans out of this world. The fish life cannot be forgotten, as plenty of trevalies, jacks and mackerel come close to look for a prey, the area is protected and already juvenile grey reefs are setting there. U must for every diver!!

DAY 13
Missol. Pulau Pelé will be the first stop, and kaleidoscope reef is an amazing dive. A combination of fans, soft corals of beautiful colors, fish and dancing anchovies in the shallows will make the morning unforgettable. In Wayilbatan the passage offers another spectacular dive, in between two islands the mild currents have created a gallery of fans, of all kinds and sizes. At the entrance nice bommies with soft corals, sweet lips and turtles..great!!

DAY 14
Blue water mangroves. A unique environment in east Missol, soft corals meet in the shallows with mangroves in clear pristine waters, extremely appealing for our eyes. We keep an eye for the salt water crocs, since here is where a diver got bitten by one

DAY 15
Arrival to Sorong

Banda Sea & Triton Bay

Banda Sea and Triton Bay

Day 1
Arrival to Ambon. Boarding and departure. The Pertamina wreck is a great way of starting the trip, a combination of soft corals, good fish life and abundant critters. Lots of possibilities for afternoon dives among manadin fish and great night dives, stargazers, bobtail squid, flamboyant cuttlefish etc

Day 2:
Ambon.The first diving day will be dedicated to more Macro in one of the top places in the world, Laha. The repertoire is extensive: rinophias, fire urchins, seahorses, nudies, mimics, frog fish. A memorable dive site!!

Day 3:
Nusa Laut. One of our favourite reefs, great combination of hard corals and white sand; an extremely healthy reef, lots of fish, bumpheads, schooling jacks, grey reefs, leopard sharks and dugongs have been spotted in several occasions

Days 4,5 and 6:
Banda: It should be compulsory to pay a visit to this archipelago once in your lifetime. The people are incredible friendly; one can smell history in each corner, sightseeing along fort Belgica or Nutmeg plantations it is worth a trip on its own. But Banda has also fabulous diving. Batu kapal has some of the most beautiful fans in Indonesia, a series of underwater pinnacles are their home as they are for schools of pyramid, surgeon, banners. The lava flow is the next must. How many divers are not interested anymore in just dive across a hard coral garden?? Many. But no one will get bored while diving here. Since the last eruption in 1988, the lava flow has been transformed into a marvellous hard coral garden, an underwater Eden. The mandarin fish under the pier have become a legend.

Karang Hatta and Banda Besar are our next stops. Hatta has got a superb reef; Juvenile white tips tend to concentrate here. Turtles and bumpheads are also regularly spotted on this shallow reef. The window offers a different topography; a big underwater arch is the highest attraction. It is cover with black coral and fans and to go through is spectacular. At the end, towards the point the current can pick up and attract big amounts of fish, excellent way to finish the dive. Manuk is a special place. The biggest schools of Jacks and barracudas in the Banda Sea are found here and together with the snakes, yes here there are also snakes.

Day 6:
Koon: Too many fishes, has traditionally been a very productive dive. How its name indicates, the concentration of fish and schools can be outstanding, depending on the current. This is one the spots where we will be opening to do some exploration, in the last few times the diving has not been quite outstanding and the channels going through Seram look very promising

Day 8:
Triton Bay. This is bound to be the next hot spot. The diversity of colours and shape of the soft corals are a dream come true for every diver, not to forget the fish life, in general extremely healthy reefs with all kind of fish in them.7th heaven will be our firs stop and it will give a real touch of the area, crowded with fish, schooling grunts, giant trevalies, giant jacks, barracudas, some solitary manta, giant turtles, walking shark, giants

There is no much fishing in the bay, and as a result the amount of fish is spectacular; Gt Rock is the perfect example; it has hundreds of grunts and red snappers hiding behind the small pinnacles. Enormous sweet lips in a frozen image posing for you while getting cleaned, giant trevalies and tunas are constantly patrolling and the fusiliers aggregate by the thousands - another must in your list

Day 9:
Triton Bay. Legendary Larry Smith did his last dive trip to this area, and he became amazed with the biodiversity that it is found here, We have a lot to thank Larry, he introduce Indonesia to the rest of us, if not for him, we would not be looking for small critters and certainly Indonesia would not be as famous as it is now. A little tribute of the diving community was to name this dive site after him. Larry's heaven honours his memory and all what he fought for. It is the dive site that broke the world record in counting different species; it has more biodiversity that any other place in the planet!!! The south corner is like Larry said heaven.

Pay attention: amazing is the experience of getting on the middle of fields of black coral, not seen anywhere else, but don't get too absorved by the view, you would not be the first pro in forgetting everything and loosing a camera down there!!!

Day 10:
Triton Bay: These first dives will be dedicated to spot the new species of flasher wrasse, that swim to the water column at shallow depth just beautiful. After that, in front of the bay of Lobo, where sulphur from volcanic action hits the sand we will do afternoon and night dive, the best place for critters in the area, lots of nudies, crabs etc

Day 11:
After the last two dives, we will proceed to go with the tenders through hundreds of tiny islands, turquoise water under us - a top side wonder, we will finish the trip with a cultural visit to the ancient paintings on the rocks.

Day 12
Arrival and transfer to the airport

Special West Papua

Western Papua - A way to go through the highlights of Triton Bay, north and south of Raja Ampat and explore the best wrecks of Indonesia

DAY 1
Arrival to Kaimana and departure

DAYS 2,3 AND 4
Triton bay. This is bound to be the next hot spot. The diversity of colors and shape of the soft corals are a dream come true for every diver, not to forget the fish life, in general extremely healthy reefs with all kind of fish in them. 7th heaven will be our firs stop and it will give a real touch of the area, crowded with fish, schooling grunts, giant trevallies, giant jacks, barracudas, some solitary manta, giant turtles, walking shark, giant

There is no much fishing in the bay, and as a result the amount of fish is spectacular; Gt Rock is the perfect example; it has hundreds of grunts and red snappers hiding behind the small pinnacles. Enormous sweet lips in a frozen image posing for you while getting cleaned, giant trevallies and tunas are constantly patrolling and the fusiliers aggregate by the thousands - another must in your list

Legendary Larry Smith did his last dive trip to this area, and he became amazed with the biodiversity that it is found here, We have a lot to thank Larry, he introduce Indonesia to the rest of us, if not for him, we would not be looking for small critters and certainly Indonesia would not be as famous as it is now. A little tribute of the diving community was to name this dive site after him. Larry's heaven honors his memory and all what he fought for. It is the dive site that broke the world record in counting different species; it has more biodiversity that any other place in the planet!!! The south corner is like Larry said heaven.

Pay attention: amazing is the experience of getting on the middle of fields of black coral, not seen anywhere else, but do not get too amazed, you would not be the first pro in forgetting and loosing a camera down there!!!

The last dives will be dedicated to spot the new species of flasher wrasse, just beautiful. We will proceed to go with the tenders through hundreds of tiny islands, turquoise water under us - a top side wonder, we will complete the area with a cultural visit to the ancient paintings on the rocks

DAY5
Air Tanjung. Incredible waterfalls, unique to take pictures, great for fun. Nice and relaxing diving near Mommon bay. A mandatory stop that will refresh our minds and bodies and get us ready for what is next

DAY 6
Pulau Pisang. Beautiful archipelago some 30 miles south of Missol. Giant elephant ears, super healthy corals, schools of fish, mantas and turtles will be waiting for us in this remote and untouched treasure.

DAYS 7, 8 AND 9
Missol: Farondi. Fantastic dive in 3 sisters, a swim through that attracts lots of life among them mobulas. Unique underwater scenery, fans, soft corals. A nice cave complete the diving.

Superb tender boat trip among islands. Darat: The south west corner in Missol gives home to schools of bumphead parrot fish, fusiliers, sardines, snappers, all of them swimming among unbelievable fans and soft and hard corals.

Fiabacet. The most famous site of the area, a few small rocks the, once you get in the water, will surprise even the most expert diver for its display: the soft corals are great and the forest of fans out of this world. The fish life cannot be forgotten, as plenty of trevallies, jacks and mackerel come close to look for a prey, the area is protected and already juvenile grey reefs are setting there

In Wayilbatan the passage offers another spectacular dive, in between two islands the mild currents have created a gallery of fans, of all kinds and sizes. At the entrance nice bommies with soft corals, sweet lips and turtles. Great!! Pulau Boo is yet another 5 star dive, towards the south part schooling batfish, in the north a nice wall completely decorated and in the middle the 3 holes where either early in the morning or late in the afternoon the light can create many effects. We will try to heat the main island to look for ancient paintings, sculls etc

DAY 10
Batanta: A good change in the middle of the trip. We will be dedicating the entirely day to muck diving. The best in the area is found at the south of this beautiful island: mandarin and picturesque dragonets, mimics and wonderpus, frog fish, a great variety of nudies

DAY 11
Exploratory day. Let's be the fortunate souls to dive for the first time remote corners of the northern part of western Papua, the excitement is guarantee

DAY 12,13 AND 14
Cendarawashi bay: The best wreck diving in south east Asia. Time to get that peculiar feeling only to be found while diving in 2d world war wrecks, decorated in spectacular soft corals and surrounded by thousands of fish. Watch out for the dugongs!!

DAY 15
Arrival at Manokwari

Special Papua & Maluku

Manokwari Ambon

DAY 1, 2 AND 3
Arrival to Manokwari. Boarding and departure.
3 days of full exploration of the best wreck diving in south east Asia. The soft corals together with the incredible bio diversity so typical of West Papua guarantee an spectacular beginning of the trip

DAY 4, 5 AND 6
We will be heading north to explore legendary remote areas such as Mios Ayawi and Mapoi. Exploring areas where we have never been before involve the risk of the uncertainty about the reef conditions, we accept it with pleasure. The excitement and the dedication to open new alternatives gives us the necessary strength. We are sure it will pay off with some extraordinary dives

DAY 7
East Waigeo: This beautiful island has been offering some of the best dives in Raja Ampat, an interesting mixture of big fish and invertebrates makes this appealing for all kind of divers

DAY 8
We start the day with a superb manta dive near Airborei, a cleaning station on top of which shy less mantas hang.

Penemu. Another fishy area with fantastic reefs, Barracuda Point and Melissa's Garden are home to thousand of fish, with a bit of current they will all go, one looking for plankton others looking for bigger food, the whole chain concentrated in a small area, in the shallows healthy hard corals and giant clams.

DAY 9
Missol: Farondi. With the right current the three sisters can be one of the top dives in Raja Ampat. In the swim through there are schools of surgeon and snappers. Looking in the shallows me might see anchovies and the trevallies coming for them, the other surprise, mobulas!!!

Outside the swim through, in both sides the walls held the biggest concentration of different tonalities of soft corals, all the colours of the spectrum are present: unbelievable!!! Killer Cave offers much more than the cave itself. South east from the cave the wall is indeed a great dive, plenty of fans and soft corals, in front of the cave, lots of cleaning station for bat fish and snappers.

DAY 10
Missol: Fiabacet. The most famous site of the area, a few small rocks the, once you get in the water, will surprises even the most expert diver for its display: the soft corals are great and the forest of fans out of this world. The fish life cannot be forgotten, as plenty of trevalies, jacks and mackerel come close to look for a prey, the area is protected and already juvenile grey reefs are setting there. U must for every diver!!

DAY 11
Missol: In Wayilbatan the passage offers another spectacular dive, in between two islands the mild currents have created a gallery of fans, of all kinds and sizes. At the entrance nice bommies with soft corals, sweet lips and turtles..great!!

We arrive to the southwest part of Raja Ampat. Pulau pel will be the firs stop, and kaleidoscope reef is an amazing dive. A combination of fans, soft corals of beautiful colours, fish and dancing anchovies in the shallows will make the morning unforgettable

DAY 12 AND 13
Ceram: We will be exploring the north of this unknown island in the search for some muck dives. The experience of our crew and in particular of our dive guides will be of great help when it comes to look for possible critters habitats

DAY 14
Ambon: Two great spots are attracting divers to this beautiful island: Laha and the Pertamina Wreck. The first one give us some of the best critters in Indonesia, among them the recently discover new species of Frog fish, rinophias, mimic octopus, zebra crabs. The wreck is a good alternative for those wanting a different dive, very fishy and nice soft corals

DAY 15
Arrival at Ambon airport

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