Dive sites of Bali and Nusa Penida
Bali, Padang Bai
The dive sites around Padang Bai, has a diverse underwater flora and fauna.
Colorful coral gardens and unspoiled with a high abundance of fish in 5-18 meters, alternate with sandy slopes and coral blocks.
Diffrent kinds of Sharks are found here, White tip reefsharks, Nursesharks and Wobbegongs. Nudibranches in many diffrent colors and shapes.
Scorpionfish, Lionfish, Frogfish, Seahorse and and and
Diving in Padang Bai offers 6 diffrent Spots: Jepun, Drop Off, Blue Lagoon, Silayukti Point, Ferry Channel and Bias Tugal.
Blue Lagoon
Blue Lagoon is the most famous spot in Padang Bai is well known for snorkling and diving. This sandy Bay has a lot of coral blocks and boomies as well as flields of soft corals. You will find schools of Sweetlips, Stonefish, Leaf Scorpionfish, Pipefish, Frogfish, Stingrays and many more.
Channel
This dive site starts directly in front of Padang Bai where the ferry to Lombok leave, the Harbour of Padang Bai. Between the Channel and Silayukti Point is a huge terrace on one side the terrace change into a slop with pockets, where we will find Sharks resting in the day time, as well as Turtles and bluespotted Stingrays, Sepias, Mantee Shrimps and Lionfishs.
Silayukti Point
Starts with a Coral field in 12 meters where is a good chance to spot Stonefishs heading deeper to 26 meter there is a single rock with moray eels sometimes are Frogfishs. Getting back to the shallows we getting into a softcoral field and a good chance for free swimming Sharks.
Drop Off
This small short Drop Off is going down to 30 meters and is a good spot for a lot of small staff to hide. You will find here a lot
of Scorpionfish, Sepia, Lionfisf Nudibranches and Crabbes.
Between the Drop Off and Blue Lagoon is in 16 meters a Coral boomie what offers plenty of little Tresures, Leaf Scorpionfish, Pipefish
and Frofishs are common.
Jepun
Jepun on the first sight looks not really attractive for the most of the people but gets very fast for a lot of them a very favorite
dive site. Down in 18 meters is a artifical reef and a small shipwreck. Plenty of small life is hiding there, if you dive deeper
to 30 - 35 meter you will reach a sandy bottom with single softcorals and well hidden Ghostpipefishs, beautiful Shrimps in strange shapes
and not enough "no decompression time" even with Nitrox, so you will dive this site again and again. Just a macro paradise
Sometimes huge Eaglerays passing by as well as a Submarine with Japanese Tourists.
Tulamben
About 70 minutes northeast of Padang Bai awaits us the world famous wreck of the USS Liberty. The in the 2nd World War II
freighter entered the docks of the shipyard in New Jersey in 1918 had left, was in the early morning hours of 11.1.1942 by a
Japanese torpedo hit, ran on the road to the port Singarajas full of water and was in the beach at Tulamben towed to him so
before sinking to preserve. 1963, the destructive eruption of the volcano Gunung Agung (the highest and holiest mountain in Bali)
rolled the USS Liberty with the lava back into the sea.
There lies the 120 meter long wreck on the depth of 6 to 30 meters, not 30 meters from the beach. Due to its simple and safe diving conditions, it is one of the most beautiful shipwrecks worldwide. Biologists count more than 400 different species of marine life. It should hardly be mentioned that here a paradise for all macro and critter fans there.
More excellent spots for "little things" are in the neighborhood - the Coral Garden and Drop Off.
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