Part of West Bali National Park, Menjangan Island is famous for its coral walls with easy conditions, warm waters and great visibility that can reach 50+ meters. Due to the white sand and good visibility, there is always a lot of sunlight to bring out the bright colors of the schooling fishes surrounding you. The walls are covered with a multitude of gorgonian fans, soft corals and sponges.

For those who've wondered but have yet to try it, and for who adore it: Puri Jati is Bali's current diving hotspot! Visibility 5-25m. A wide, gentle blown sand slope with patches of seagrass and tufts of lavender soft corals hiding many juvenile batfishes and lionfishes, rare fishes, crustaceans, cephalopods (including Wonderpus, Blue-ring and Mimic octopus) and fascinating sand dwellers.

World-famous for the 120m USAT Liberty Shipwreck (possibly the world's easiest wreck dive); the Drop-off/Wall, an old lava flow from Mount Agung, at the opposite end of the bay from the Wreck (about a 10 min walk between the two sites) and the Coral Garden, which is a shallow reef running along the middle section of Tulamben beach. Tulamben Bay offers incredible shore-diving with very easy conditions - perfect for divers of all levels.

The sites around Amed, including the 20m Japanese Wreck, offer many different kinds of sponges and gorgonians, and marinelife that includes everything from White-tip reef sharks, Napoleon wrasses, occasional big trevallys, butterflyfishes, bannerfishes , snappers, fusiliers and triggerfishes to gobies and shrimp as well as anemones with attendant clownfishes, schools of barracuda and Blue-spotted rays. Many different kinds of parrotfishes, angelfishes, surgeonfishes and moray eels.

Nusa Penida is the largest of three islands lying off Bali's east coast and offers great drift-diving. Due to ocean currents, the water here is fairly cold but ofter startlingly cleat, with some impressive coral formations and prolific fishes, occasional turtles, sharks and in mid-July to November each year, Mola-Mola (Ocean sunfish). Both Manta Points have Manta rays year-round.

Amuk Bay has some of Bali's best diving. Miming is three rock pinacles that break the surface; the southern, deeper area, offers a spectacular wall with profuse corals, many fishes and sometimes, pelagics. The breath-taking diving at Tepekong, a 300m long rock, has step walls, cold water and some currents. In the famous canyon, with its swirling waters and dramatic craggy walls, you may see schooling fishes, possibly Mola-Mola (in season), white-tip reef sharks and turtles.

A small bay with a steep white sand beech, located just outside  Padang Bay. The white sand bottom, which slope gradually to 22m, has scattered rocks, soft corals and a huge area of Staghorn coral. The smaller fishlife here is amazing. There is also a large Napoleon wrasse, several kinds of reef sharks, stonefishes, nudibranchs, rays squid, cuttlefishes and octopus. Blue ribbon and moray eels, stargazers, crocodile fishes and Leaf scorpionfishes on every hue.

Aquamarine is one of only a few companies to offer dive trips to this small crescent-shaped island. Some of Bali's most stunning diving: vast numbers and great diversity of fishes, abundant sharks and frequent pelagic visitors, set against chiseled black walls with beautiful, healthy corals and often great visibility. There is a beautiful and healthy reef around the island, a rocky slope on the north side and a rugged black wall around the southern part.

This small island on Bali's eastern point offers both protected reef-diving and drift-diving with some bigger fishes. The interesting and rich sand-slope to the north of the island has some stands of hard branching corals and occasional bommies, the deeper areas of the slope are more protected and, therefore, home to sea fans, soft corals, barrel sponges and coral bushes.

This is quite a special trip that visits very remote places where not many people have dived. Also, very interesting seeing to different worlds just divided by islands. We will start in Maumere Bay, we will visit some islands like Pulau Babi, that suffer and devastating earthquake on December 1992, originating a Tsunami and creating a crack on the island that can be seen underwater. 

The scenery above water is also spectacular as we can see 3 volcanos from our anchor place. In the north Flores Sea, we can find beautiful coral walls with overhangs and crevices, where you can find the tiniest pygmy seahorse to white tip reef sharks sleeping in the corals. 

Weather depending, we could visit the south of Pantar Island as Pulau Lembata that has to offer a very different landscaping. In the South Savu Sea has currents with different nutrients and a colder water temperature give life to another dimension. Bays full of exceptional world-class macro and isolated rocks out at sea make this especial diving were the critters seems from another planet. 

In Alor, we find yet again great diversity, from vertical coral walls to sloping gardens covered in anemones for miles on end. We can dive an active volcano where you can see hot air bubbles coming from the rocks. Because we are in the Pantar Strait that brings lots of nutrients, we can also expect to see some dolphins or even whales welcoming us into the bay. With a bit of luck, the coolers currents bring us the Mola Mola or even Thresher shark. 

We can visit a village that still lives the traditional ways and they will invite us for a traditional ceremony with dance performance. Near our anchoring in Pura Island we get the village kids with their wooden crafted goggles, showing off their free diving skills. Almost always locals approach the boat with their finest handcrafted “Ikat” Fabrics made by a traditional technique in which they wrap threads and tie-dyed before weaving.

Kalabahi Bay in West Alor has world-class muck diving in the bay, many different ghost pipefish hide in the mucky bottom, many nudi’s and all families of scorpion fish even the elusive rhy-nopia commonly spotted here. 

Wetar island has spectacular drop offs, walls covered in black coral bushes with massive barrel sponges. 

Gunung Api is an active volcano, but is most famous for its population of sea snakes and seabirds. The birds will come and greet you far before you reach the island. From the moment you jump in you are surrounded by sea snakes. 

They are very friendly and will leave you alone to enjoy the dramatic lava formations in this unique underwater location. Huge barrel sponges, sea wipes, sea fans, hard and soft corals. We have been very lucky to spot hammerheads here. 

In Damar, Terbang Selatan and Terbang Utara deserted islands with steep walls and the most pristine coral garden on top of the reef. 

Nil Desperandum is an underwater seamount rising from the depths to about 3 meters below the surface right in the middle of Banda Sea. Besides the unspoiled coral encounters with the bigger pelagic tuna, rainbow runners, spanish mackerel. Serua Island from September to November is known as migrations areas for Hammerheads sharks. 

On Dawera Island we can visit a small but very self-sustainable village. They have solar power panels and a generator. There is a school and a doctor’s office and is full of overly friendly people to welcome you and show you around the village where the streets even have names. They have a good understanding of self-sustainability and therefore are very protective and regulate their fish population. They have shown us 2 amazing underwater pinnacles booming with fish life. 

If you have time to spend in Saumlaki on Tanimbar island, we recommend you to go visit the woodcarvers. 

Bitung, capital of Lembeh Strait. In Lembeh most of the macro photographer’s dreams can become reality in a matter of a couple of dives. 

Muck diving at its best!!! 

Once in the middle of the Moluccan Sea we will visit Tifore Island, separated from main land by more than 70 miles. An underwater pinnacle close to the island hides when the current is favorable, a big school of Barracudas between other big pelagic fish. 

Arriving to Halmahera, Goraichi Island is a system of islands right at the edge of the Molucca Sea offering a big diversity in Macro or big pelagic. 

Then in the heart of Halmahera, we find a channel in the Patintie Strait where pinnacles and coral formations are different due to currents being funneled thru the channel as two seas meet. 

Raja Ampat refers to an archipelago with more than 1500 islands with the four main islands of Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati and Misool and is part of the Coral Triangle making it one of the richest bio diversity of the world.Because his strategic location on the western Pacific Ocean, currents troughflows arriving to the archipelago from very deep water to shallow water, making stratospheric numbers more that 500 different species of corals in that area, ten times more than the Caribbean.

Raja Ampat translates from the Indonesian language to Four Kings.

Misool, the most southern island, has an abundance of marine life, a variety of underwater seamounts, smaller pinnacles, coral walls and coral gardens, covered in giant sea fans, soft corals in all colours, massive table corals and countless fish. This is a great place to find the elusive epaulette shark, or walking shark. It is a nocturnal shark that sneaks up on its pray by ‘walking’ closer and closer to it. It is largely a marine park set up by Misool Eco Resort in cooperation with all the local villages, not to fish inside this area. It gets patrolled by the park rangers.

Batanta has fantastic muck dive sites with the most colourful nudibranchs you can imagine, alien looking critters and beautiful coral bummies.

The Dampier Strait, between Waigeo and Batanta, beautiful coral gardens, underwater pinnacles or seamounts, sandy bottom with coral heads and cleaning stations. Here we can find even more nutrients bringing in bigger predators like giant trevallies, yellow fin tuna, rainbow runners and even some sharks like blacktip, grey reef, white tip sharks. It is also one of the few places in the world where we can find two species of Manta rays on the same dive sites.

Night dives are a joy in Northern Raja Ampat.

We offer you the opportunity to visit local villages or there hike up to one of the lookout points.

Ambon, the capital of the Maluku’s province. It is the most populated city in the area and its phenomenal muck diving is considered as one of the best in the world. The city is spit by an enormous Bay, that since recently is connected by a bridge. 

Cuttlefish, seahorses, octopus and many other critters find their home in this deep Bay. It is muck diving in its purest state. One of the most famous dive site is Twighligh in Laha village. As the name says it feels like twighlight even in broad daylight. You may first wonder why your guide brought you here, but than a whole new world opens to you. 

Creatures that you have never seen before or even knew exi- sted. Here we can find such critters as a harlequin shrimp or hairy frogfish, flamboyant cuttlefish, seahorses, mototi, hairy, starry wonderpus are just a few of the many different species of octopus you can find here. 

Biggest highlights are rhinopias or the elusive psychedelic frog fish, other than in Bali it is never found anywhere else in the world. We also have a wreck in the bay, the Duke of Sparta. A steel English cargo that sunk as it was stuck by a Douglas B-26 bomb in 1958. 

Don’t forget the beautiful coral gardens found outside the Bay. There is a huge natural rock bridge, called, Pintu Kota. It is cove- red in beautiful and colourful soft corals, with great marine life. 

• Nusa Laut incredible diving as Ahmed the small village that protects the area against illegal fishing does a great job conserving this area. Big schools of jacks, rainbow runners, tuna, spanish mackerel, but there is also the chance for big pelagics. 

Named by some as, ‘the next frontier of diving’. Leaving the small port of Kaimana there is nothing but thick rainforest, gorgeous inlets and uninhabited beaches, undisturbed my human activity. If you are really looking for an adventure and want to explore some of the most remote and unknown area, this is the place to go. 

Triton bay was only surveyed by Conservation International in 2006 and there is only one small resort. Very few Liveaboards only just start to uncover the top of what is believed one of the most diverse and pristine area in Indonesia. There are sandy bottoms with huge boulders, covered in the most colorful soft corals and is considered to be even better than Raja Ampat. The visibility can vary as the sites are between the islands bringing nutritious currents feeding these untouched corals. Whalesharks visit the area all year round following the big shoals of anchovies. 

Fishermen that are catching the anchovies stay on these floating fishing platforms ‘bagans’ Hence the whalesharks like to hang around here. There is no guarantee you get to see them though, as the bagans are not always operative and not every bagan attracts whalesharks. 

They operate at night with big lights, attracting the fish. Early morning, they will pull up their nets. This is when we want to be around as the whalesharks will eat the escapees. If they are around you can see them snorkeling as well as diving . 

On the way to Koon Island we could visit a waterfall that empties right in the ocean and dive a very unexplored underwater sea mounts covered in life. 

Koon Island, again a very remote location that it lays between the Ceram, Arafula Sea the Banda Sea, feeding of very nutritious currents fish and corals thrive here. 

KOMODO Is known for some of its cooler waters, beautiful corals, impressive fish life and fast currents.

Komodo National Marine Park, because of its location, it is one of the best places in the world where you can find an amazing biodiversity. It is part of the famous CORAL TRIANGLE and is declared a UNESCO WORLD HERRITAGE site.

In the north of Komodo NMP we have the Flores Sea where after few miles from the coast reaches depths of 5000 meters, or even more towards Banda Sea.

At the south, we have the Indian Ocean with also great depths a few miles out.Komodo NMP has an average depth of about 150 meters, so when we have tidal movement of 2 meters rising or falling tide, the water comes from very deep and needs to rush through Flores and Komodo Island where only shallow water is found.

The consequences are that the water has to pass between islands at high speed, forming currents that provide nutrients and oxygen rich waters to the fish and the coral reef. Currents are for the underwater world like the logistics in any big city. Having strong currents equals to have more shipments of supplies for the city. Plenty of nutrients arrive to these waters and makes and spectacle of life wherever you look.The big difference of characteristics between Flores Sea and Indian Ocean gives a more variety of marine life at different islands.

The environment below and above water at the Northern Komodo has nothing in common with the South.

North Komodo National Park the water temperature is usually nice and warm from the Flores Sea (27ª-29ª). There is an abundance of fish on these underwater pinnacles, schooling surgeons, big eye jacks, snapper or barracudas and pelagic are a common site.The further South we travel the water temperature will drop (18ª-24ª). Padar island has some beautiful sites where we can start to feel the influence of the Indian Ocean. More nutrients in the water is giving the corals a different look, colours are sharper, fish life is about to change. Even further South, we have Nusa Kode this horseshoe shaped bay has stunning corals. Not only in a rainbow of colours but also the size. Fish live in abundance and creatures you may have never seen before in your life, they may remind you the monsters that live under your bed as a child.

There is muck diving in places you least expect and under water pinnacles attract big schools of snapper, big eye jacks, surgeon fish, barracuda’s and Spanish mackerel. You feel like you fly over beautiful coral gardens that you can barely see because of the amount of fish darting in the currents. Manta rays have their own cleaning stations, that we can visit. Here we can observe them getting cleaned but if the currents bring in the right nutrients and krill, they will start to feed, shooting to the surface to dive down while with their mouths wide open, filtering the water.

Your trip is not complete without meeting the last living dinosaurs, the Komodo Dragons. you will get a chance to see them up close at the National Park. With a bit of luck, you will also see the macaque monkeys, some deer’s, wild pig and wild horse.

Banda Sea is spectacular as it is very remote due to its location and possibility of rougher seas. Crystal clear waters, bottomless dropoffs, colorful coral pinnacles and so much more. After the eruption (1988) of Gunung Api close to Banda Neira, the lava flowed into the sea covering and over throwing the coral below. 

You will be amazed by the fast recovery of the hard-coral garden that grew in its place. For the night/dusk dive we can see the mating dance of the very colorful mandarin fish, search for frogfish,seahorses, razorfish and octopus. 

We offer you the opportunity to visit the old historic town of Banda Neira. Here you will find many remains of the Dutch and English spice trade. We will visit an old nutmeg plantation and have a little taste of how you can make great use of this famous spice that once was believed to cure the plague. 

The fort Belgica offers great views of the port and Gunung Api. 

Manuk is another active volcano with many seabirds and sea snakes, very similar to Gunung Api only a little smaller. Hundreds of sea snakes will accompany you on this dive while you enjoy the lava ridges covered in coral. Keep your eyes open for big pelagic.