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You will be diving over a Christmas tree forest. This ancient unique coral formation is completely intact and breath-taking. You can also meet some Napoleon brass, others school of fishes, pelagic rainbow runners… Great visibility!

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By the black sand beach, the slope is taking you down to an exceptional coral reef full of life, school of yellow sweet-lips fishes, turtles, sea-fans and the famous barracudas tornado which can be spotted in the big blue. This is an active current dive.

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Pinnacle 2 Dive Site in Togean offers vibrant coral gardens, schools of fish, graceful turtles, and stunning sponges. The walls feature coral fans, a sloping terrain, and an awe-inspiring pinnacle, creating an enchanting underwater experience.

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It is the new Komodo: lots of current, lots of hard corals, small and colorful, creating blue, red or pink walls of corals and lots of fishes such as millions of Anthias hiding in the coral reefs. All the fishes are huge! Also many eagle rays, mobullas and sea snakes..

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Named after the orange colored rocks (batu) which cover the bottom, this spot has many sharks in the deep area, and beautiful tables of Acropora in the shallow. It is part of the Tolimao archipelago, small islands full of white sand beaches, turquoise waters and coconut trees. Like a postcard!

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Selat Patinti is the channel between Bacan and Halmahera. Pokal is a 30 meters deep plateau right in the middle of the channel. You will dive on a succession of pinnacles and overhangs surrounded by trevallies, grey reef or black tip sharks, tunas, school of fusiliers… Spectacular!

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Navigating above ridges with a visibility up to 50 meters, the water is deep blue, contrasting with black sand and pink or orange colored soft corals. The reef is lively, and waters are rich in nutrients attracting Hammerhead sharks and sea snakes. You can feel the vivacity of the volcano.

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North of Banda Neira, you will be diving on the lava flow of Mount Api Banda which erupted in 1988 and formed the underwater flow. The lava destroyed the existing corals but then accelerated the growth of coral reefs habitat for millions of colorful fish attracting hammerhead sharks, and others.

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The visibility is simply incredible, crystalline. The currents make you “fly” from pinnacle to pinnacle, then you “hide” from the current. This field of hard coral hills is completely unique. Giant Trevally, Bumphead Parrot fish, Napoleon brass, tunas, mackerels…. They swim, they chase, it bubbles with life.

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This famous site is composed of boulders with soft corals and schools of anthias, damsel, and fusiliers. Deeper schools of sweetlips and snapper hang out in the black coral, hunting jacks and wobbegong can also be found here. You gently drift along a soft coral wall and finish in Aquarium.

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This sweet spot is located off the north side of an islet by Dramai island, West Papua. The islet offers a swim through, and protects a rich biodiversity in its clear waters which is quite rare around Triton bay. This site is full of schools of fishes which attract larger marine life, like sharks and rays.

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Bagans are fishing nets platforms of Indonesian sea nomads who have developed an extraordinary relationship with the whale sharks who feed each morning beneath their nets, sucking succulent sardines through the tiny openings. Thanks to this special relationship, you will be able to swim with whale sharks.

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Outside Pura island, this site offers a carpet of anemone which shelters multitudes of small creatures. From families of diverse clown fishes to nudibranchs, seahorses, crabs or frog fishes it is also the territory of turtles and thresher sharks. Be ready to be surprised!

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Composed by two caverns, this dive is a must-do of Alor.  Divers will usually find crabs, nudibranchs, sometimes large marble rays and nurse sharks and even their eggs. Outside the cave, there is a beautiful colorful wall full of soft orange corals.

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By the island of Ternate in the Pantar strait, this dive offers a topography that reminds the Hanging gardens of Babylon. You might surprisingly encounter local fishermen free diving without any fins or equipment, only using their very own homemade goggles from glass.

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Named after its descending and ascending currents which take the diver in a roller coaster trip, this dive site north of Gilli Banta is also offering a variety of pelagic schools as well as eels, orang-utang crabs and so much more.

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Diving at the foot of Sumbawa active volcano, you will enjoy the black sands rich macro life in pristine coral reefs. In search of fabulous frogfishes, amazing seahorses and a variety of nudibranchs, you will never be bored.

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Bagans are fishing nets platforms of Indonesian sea nomads who have developed an extraordinary relationship with the whale sharks who feed each morning beneath their nets, sucking anchovy through the tiny openings. Thanks to this special relationship, you will be able to swim with whale sharks attracting dolphins and others.

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Boo Window, a reference dive site with extraordinary tunnels or openings piercing the rock from the surface to underwater below. Boo sites are known for their huge gorgonian sea fans and lots of reef fishes and sea life including turtles, reef sharks and barracudas and even some mantas if lucky.

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Four Kings is another superb dive site, located on the island of Pele southern Misool. They are four underwater pinnacles in the middle of nowhere, covered in a blanket of soft coral. Here you can easily swim from one rock to the next one and admire the soft corals and marine life.

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Karang Bayangan means Shadow Reef in Indonesian because on a calm day you can see the top of the ridge at about 6m from the surface. Even though the topography is amazing, this is a dream dive as oceanic manta rays can be regularly seen, giving the nickname of Magic mountain.

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The Famous Blue Magic is a non-emergent pinnacle located in the north west of the Dampier Straight and offer current dives on dynamic reefs. All the food chain is represented there, from reef fishes to big pelagic including Mantas Rays, barracudas, snappers, trevally, tunas, black tip and white tip sharks.

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Melissa Garden is a current dive. Fantastic pinnacles covered by colorful corals and anemones sheltering large schools of fusiliers, jack fish, surgeon fish and batfish. Giant trevallies are also spotted here along with snappers, and rainbow runners. In the shallower parts, there will be larger groups of sweetlips and lionfish.

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Siaba Kecil is a very nice drift dive, more for advanced divers. The reef is rich in hard coral including nice sea fans and pelagic life can often be seen in the blue (Trevally, sharks).

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The Cauldron: one of the most spectacular dive of Komodo. The dive site is actually a passage between Gili Lawa Darat and Gili Lawa Laut creating an interesting topography and strong current that attracts a lot of sea life and has stunning hard coral gardens on each side of the path.

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The site is located in 8-15m water depth where manta rays and eagle rays may be spotted. They  are coming to get cleaned by small fishes and feed from the rich nutrient filled waters. A unique spectacle offered by these majestic fishes that should not be missed.

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Castel rock is one of the iconic dive site in Komodo. It is an exposed pinnacle directly facing strong current. There is abundance of sea life including schooling jacks, fusiliers, snappers, reef sharks, giant trevallies, turtles and also very healthy coral. Crystal rock is a similar dive but for all levels.

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Batu Bolong is an emerging pinnacle in the middle of the channel and offers current dive on this dynamic reef. The soft and hard corals are really colorful and healthy. All the food chain is on open display there from reef fishes to big pelagic.