Dive sites
Four coasts, one dive centre.
Every day we choose the best and safest sites based on conditions, experience and what you would like to see. Diving here is good all year round.
Amed
Around 15 km of coastline and seven fishing villages beneath Mount Agung. Most sites are a short drive away and entered straight from the black-sand beach.
Level All levels · currents at Gili Selang for advanced divers
- Water 27–30 °C year-round
- Macro, drift, walls, wrecks, coral gardens
Jemeluk Bay
ShoreSheltered and calm — an ideal first dive. Seahorses, ghost pipefish, frogfish and nudibranchs, with turtles and reef sharks in the deeper parts and a lovely coral garden at 5–10 m.
Pyramids
Shore / boatAn artificial reef of concrete pyramids sunk more than 20 years ago, now home to moray eels, lionfish and leaf scorpionfish, with garden eels and blue-spotted rays on the sand.
Japanese Shipwreck
ShoreA small wooden wreck in a few metres of water — great for snorkellers too. Round the corner, deeper to 25 m, eagle rays and Napoleon wrasse are possible.
Lipah
ShoreA sandy slope ideal for macro photography, with porcelain crabs, shrimps, nudibranchs and scorpionfish.
Bunutan · Deep Blue · Golden Rock
BoatDrift dives over coral gardens from 5 to 30 m. White-tip reef sharks and turtles are often seen.
Gili Selang
BoatBali’s easternmost point: a black-sand slope full of macro life leading onto rich reef — but exposed areas can have up-, down- and swirling currents.
Tulamben, Kubu & Seraya
Home of the USAT Liberty, Bali’s most famous wreck, plus walls, coral gardens and some of the island’s best muck diving.
Level All levels
- Wreck, wall, muck and macro
- Excellent night diving
USAT Liberty
ShoreA WWII cargo ship torpedoed in 1942 and beached, then pushed into the sea by the 1963 eruption of Mount Agung. Lies between 5 and 30 m; at night bumphead parrotfish come to sleep on the wreck.
Tulamben Drop Off
ShoreA wall formed by the 1963 lava flow, descending from 3 m to around 80 m and covered in coral. Usually weak current and 10–30 m visibility.
Coral Garden
ShoreShallow and rich — anemones with clownfish, and the site where black-tip sharks are most often seen. Ideal for photography.
Boga Wreck (Kubu)
ShoreSunk in 2012 with a car and statues aboard; easy access and growing coral life.
Batu Belah · Seraya
ShoreCoral bommies on sand and famous macro sites: harlequin shrimp, frogfish, mimic and wonderpus octopus, leaf scorpionfish.
Candidasa
The rocky islets of Gili Tepekong, Mimpang and Biaha: pinnacles, walls and swim-throughs washed by cool currents that keep the coral superbly healthy.
Level Experienced divers with a guide
- Water can drop to 18–20 °C — a 3 mm suit or thicker
- Reef sharks; mola-mola possible roughly July–October
Gili Tepekong
BoatShark Alley, the Canyon, walls and swim-throughs. Moderate to very strong currents, with down-currents around full and new moon. Schooling barracuda and turtles.
Gili Mimpang
BoatThree islets around a plateau and wall; reef sharks, barracuda, rays and, in season, mola-mola.
Blue Lagoon
BoatAn unassuming white-sand bay near Padang Bai with resident blue-spotted rays, a large Napoleon wrasse and plenty of nudibranchs.
Nusa Penida
A day trip by boat from Padang Bai past dramatic cliffs — for reef mantas at their cleaning station and, in season, the oceanic sunfish.
Level Mola-mola trips for experienced divers
- Mantas year-round
- Mola-mola roughly July–October
- Cooler water, often 20–24 °C
Manta Point
BoatA cleaning station in about 7 m of water where reef mantas circle over a large boulder.
Crystal Bay
BoatOne of the few places in the world to see mola-mola rise from the deep to be cleaned.
Toyapakeh
BoatA coral plateau at 6–15 m dropping to a wall around 30 m, usually dived as a drift.
SD · Ped · Sental
BoatSloping walls along the north coast, sinking towards the deep blue.