Indonesia’s finest scuba diving destinations

Indonesia’s finest scuba diving destinations

Dive the most bio-diverse waters of our planet

Scuba diving in Indonesia

Discover the best dive sites in Indonesia

Dive in the most biodiverse ocean waters of the planet where whale shark, mantas ray and mola mola are resident, and big marine mammals are seasonal, whereas rare marine species and cinematic and pristine reefs are the delight of underwater photographers all year round.

Raja Ampat | Cruising Indonesia | The Liveaboard and Dive Specialists

Raja Ampat

Diving Raja Ampat in West Papua is an extraordinary experience, like no other dive destination in the world. It will fill your log book, dolphins, oceanic manta and mobulas, infinity of fish of all kind, corals, invertebrates, mollusks and crustaceans.

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Komodo

Komodo National Park is a unique marine sanctuary created by strong currents carrying nutrient-rich waters that support an incredible array of marine life, and where the main activity is scuba diving with a wide choice of liveaboard cruises and resorts for scuba divers. 

Banda Sea

The Banda Sea is the kingdom of the pelagic. Giant groupers, tuna, trevally, napoleons, sharks, and especially in the right season, hammerhead sharks. Nature at Banda Sea is oversized: huge sea fans, massive barrel sponges, and thick schools of fish.

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Halmahera

The marine life in Halmahera and North Maluku not only offers pelagic fish, blacktip and whitetip sharks, hammerheads, barracudas, manta rays and sea turtles, but also macro: pigmy seahorse Denise and Bargibant, different species of crabs and shrimps, nudibranchs and critters, are inhabitants of sites sheltered of the currents, or home in the cracks and crevices of deep walls.

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Bali

Bali is overlooked by divers who avoid “popular” dive destinations, what many divers are unaware of is that Bali, the Island of Gods, has also been blessed with some of the finest diving in the world! Bali is an underwater photographer’s paradise, if you want, you could also just go for the scuba diving, depending on what you like…

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Forgotten Islands

The Forgotten Islands is a long chain of islands and atolls that is part of the Southern Maluku. The whole region extends for over 600 km from Wetar to Tanimbar, following the Inner and Outer volcanic Arc of Sunda in the very far-flung southernmost where Indonesian Archipelago ends. Remote and sparsely populated, the Forgotten Islands have remained largely isolated from the rest of Indonesia and the world.

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Alor & Solor

Considered among the most beautiful diving destinations in Asia, the archipelagos of Alor and Solor are still remote and untouched. Tourism is almost non-existent and only a few divers have explored these waters, those lucky few are greeted by local children in their canoes and their extraordinary free diving performances.

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Triton Bay

A stunning and unspoilt underwater environment combined with one of the most singular and scenic coral reefs landscapes, that makes this area of West Papua a truly spectacular dive location. Few divers have explored this secluded region of Indonesia, which can be reached only by liveaboard

Flores & the Banda Sea

Dormant volcanoes rising out of the middle of nowhere in the Banda Sea are the settings for the most fantastic wall diving experience, with the remote Lucipara and Gunungapi as the jewel of the crown. This cruise sail the volcanic inner arc of the archipelago, where the scenery changes from clusters of limestone islands to dramatic isolated volcanic peaks.

Cenderawasih Bay | Cruising Indonesia | The Liveaboard and Dive Specialists

Cenderawasih Bay

Indonesia’s whale sharks sanctuary: Cenderawasih, an immense bay that homes one of the most largest marine park in Indonesia and the only place in the world where it is possible to see such a large number of whale sharks.

© Simone Nicolini

Wakatobi

Wakatobi National Park is a small group of islands in southeast Sulawesi, also known as the Tukangbesi Archipelago, that is home to some of the healthiest coral fields you are likely to see in your diving career. It is a tropical paradise with beautiful beaches and pristine reefs.

Togean Archipelago | Cruising Indonesia | The Liveaboard and Dive Specialists

Togian Islands

The Togeans are an untouched paradise on Earth where all kind of reefs are represented: fringing, barrier and atolls offers to the scuba diver caves, canyons, drop-offs and rocky formations with abundant marine life for spectaculars dives.

North Sulawesi

A thin spit of land, generated by powerful volcanoes, covered with dense jungle, and a seabed of the most interesting for divers and underwater photographers. This is how the extreme northern offshoot of the island of Sulawesi presents itself.

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Derawan Islands

The Derawan Archipelago in Borneo is another Indonesia’s underrated hidden gems offering experienced and novice divers alike a diving destination with interesting underwater life. Derawan ranks just second behind Raja Ampat in terms of coral diversity with over 460 species.

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Raja Ampat, Halmahera, Lembeh Strait

This trip takes us from Sorong in West Papua, through the Moluccas Sea for diving Raja Ampat, Halmahera and the best of Manado and Lembeh in North Sulawesi. The 700 nautical mile journey takes us through a range of different land and seascapes.

Pterois in coral slope of Alor Strait

The macro photographers dream

Here is just a taster: porcelain crabs, orangutan crab, harlequin shrimp, the super photogenic juvenile batfish, mandarin fish, Ambon cardinal fish, crocodile fish, pygmy seahorse in all its variants: bargibanti, coleman, denise, pontoh, satomi, severn, waleananus; sexy shrimp, rare nudibranchs.

Get lucky and you may find still unclassified species or meet a series of bizarre sea creatures known as critters: the poisonous but captivating scorpion fish in all its variants. spiny devilfish, zebra lionfish, leafy scorpionfish, ragged-finned lionfish, stonefish and rhinopias … in every shade imaginable.

Where and when to dive in Indonesia

The immense extension of the Indonesian archipelago creates different climatic zones, ensuring year round diving.

October to May is high season for Raja Ampat, Triton Bay and Halmahera.
April to November the weather is perfect in Komodo, Alor, Togians, Wakatobi, Derawan, Sulawesi and Bali.
April-May and October-November are ideal for visiting The Banda SeaThe Ring of Fire and Forgotten Islands.

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