Your World Class Dive

The islands of Lombok through Komodo Dragon: Rinca & Komodo Islands are part of the complex of 175 islands (about 90% inhabitant), situated 165 nautical miles east of Lombok, between the islands of Flores and Sumbawa. Both above and below the sea Komodo represents a unique range of geological and biological diversity. On shore it is an amazing museum diorama of the Mesozoic era dry tundra and reptilian supremacy. Comoro's symbols of international fame its dragons, the world's largest living lizard.

In the sea its vibrant color and exotic life will enchant divers and snorkel alike as endless schools of fish ride the waterways rushing up from deep sea vents, below them the seabed is covered with a thick carpet of florescent corals and marine invertebrates - an underwater photographer’s paradise. One of all your best diving points in the world for unforgettable experience of your dreams.

The waters that surround the island are turbulent and teeming with unparallel marine life. A marine reserve has recently been established and this reserve is largely un-documented and remains unexplored. Komodo National Park was established in 1980. It was declared as a Man and Biosphere Reserve and a World Heritage Site in 1986. KNAP includes three major islands - Komodo, Rinca and Padar and numerous smaller islands together totaling 41,000 ha of land contains 132,000 ha of marine waters.

The corals in Komodo National park are pristine, with Mantas, sharks, turtles, dolphins, dugong, many pelagic, to the tiny pygmy seahorses, nudi-branchs, frog fish; you name it we've got it. The sites vary from gentle easy coral slopes to heart pounding adrenalin rides, from the warm waters of the Flores Sea in the north to the chillier waters down south in the Indian Ocean, the underwater terrain is so varied with sheer cliff walls, pinnacles, sandy flat bottoms, underwater plateaus, slopes, caves, swim-through, channels, all with varying colors, sizes and types of coral both hard and soft.

DIVE SITES:

Bidadari Island Diving

Angel Steps, huge towers of stone, encrusted with hard and soft corals, covered in nudi-branchs, small caves and overhangs make this a very interesting and beautiful site, Dusky sharks, and hump head parrot fish are among the bigger creatures we see here. Cathedral Coral, a gentle slope covered with table corals of every color and schooling fish, a towering spire of coral with a small cave at its base is the home to some huge lobsters.

Saloon Diving

*Saloon kecil a slope on the east side of this tiny island, with two underwater mounds at the southern end with fields of garden eels and sea pens, schools of round bat fish are often seen coming quite close for some nice photography.

*Saloon Besar steep slopes off the southern and western sides of the bigger island, fabulous coral coverage and a good chance of spotting Scorpion leaf fish.

*Sebayur kecil walls and slopes of every kind of coral you can imagine, wide variety of marine life to be seen at this site, mantas often seen.

*Tatawa Besar slope with soft coral garden changing to hard coral along the slope, lots of shoaling fish, rainbow runners, fusiliers and often turtles and black tip sharks.

*Tatawa Kecil (current city) as the name implies, this site is washed by very strong currents, which is why this site is among the many world class sites in the Komodo National Park, schools of pelagic fish patrol the waters, best dived at slack tide.

Batu Bolong Diving

A little further west from current city a small rock outcrop with a hole through it is the surface mark of another world class site, only to be dived at slack tide or with a current not long from stopping or starting to run, these giant slabs of rock which disappear into the depths are an amazing sight to see, covered with every form of marine life and patrolled by giant trivially, Napoleon Wrasse, sharks and turtles with schools of barracuda sweeping in to check out the divers.

We often see Manta Rays at many of the sites, whale sharks also have their season here and whales and dolphins are often spotted from the boat.

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