DIVE SITES
Amed and Tulamben dive sites offer everything from reefs to artificial reefs, walls, wrecks, and world class muck diving. Almost all sites have shore access, which is a great advantage for beginners. Some sites are nice to do from a local jukung boat.
JEMELUK BAY
Accessible from shore, Jemeluk Bay presents the wall as a deeper dive site and the bay itself. Suitable for beginners the same as for experienced divers, Jemeluk is still quite rich in hard corals and soft corals. Artificial reefs have been settled in. Snappers and hawksbill turtles are frequent habitants of the bay.
PYRAMIDS
Artificial coral reef placed on the sandy bottom with depths varying from 10 meters to 25 meters. The basis of the coral growth is made of rectangular concrete arranged like a small pyramid. It is one of the best places to witness a successful artificial reef.
Home to many kinds of reef fish such as Sweetlip fish, Clown fish, Angel fish, Stingray, Flounder fish, Rock grouper, Scorpion fish, Lion fish, Pigmy Seahorse, Turtles, Trigger fish.
LIPAH BAY
Entry from a sandy beach shore line, you will swim toward a slope where you will start your dive. Start off by swimming to the right, then follow the ledge to come across a few coral blocks with lots of colorful fish. Continue along the right side to find turtles eating on the ocean floor. You may see turtles, blue spotted stingrays, clownfish, Clark’s anemone fish, scorpion fish, lion fish, and ghost pipe fish.
BUNUTAN
Usually done by boat, this dive site is mostly a drift dive. It can be done from shore, but you will need to walk up the hill back to the car for pick up. You can see green sea turtles and hundreds of garden eels, huge sponges, and sometimes schools of barracuda.
JAPANESE WRECK
The wreck is very shallow 1-12m, great to start and finish your dive. In between we explore the beautiful reef around. At the bottom of the wreck there is a beautiful anemone with orange and white clownfishes, a great spot for photos. Many scorpionfish, nudibranchs, trumpetfish, and more.
MELASTI
Shore and shallow dive. Sandy bottom with rocks. Perfect habitat for macro critters. Great choice for night dives and macro lovers! Good playground for underwater photographers. Highly recommended by night. From nudibranchs to frogfish, Melasti Amed offers a great variety of macro life. Leaf scorpionfish, frogfish as clown frogfish, harlequin shrimps.
USAT LIBERTY WRECK
The USAT Liberty Wreck has lots to offer for both beginners and experienced divers. The wreck is sitting on a sandy slope just 30m out from the beach. It reaches from 5m to 30m of depth and is about 120m long. It's been in the ocean for a long time and therefor covered in corals and full of life. It's one of the most popular sites in this area and for this reason we leave early for this trip - 6.30am - to beat the crowds. Get up early and join us for an amazing adventure.
DROP OFF
Drop-Off is a site that slopes down on one side, making a wall down into deep water. Mostly divers stick to a maximum depth of 30 meters where the reef is very nice and covered with soft coral. A variety of coral fish may be encountered at this wonderful site from macro to pelagic fish, even sharks are often spotted in the deep water. Also turtles, school of jack fish, and yellow fins.
CORAL GARDEN
There is a garden of anemones and about 60 statues on the far right side of the dive site. This is a nice second dive in the morning to get away form the crowds at Liberty Wreck. You will see clownfish, and can also be lucky to encounter turtles, sharks, cuttlefish, and possibly the famous ornate ghost pipe fish and robust ghost pipe fish.
SIDEM
Sidem is another great macro dive site, paradise for photographers by day and by night. Definitely a must see dive site for macro lovers! There is also a beautiful reef at this dive site!
Many species of sea horses, nudibranch, frogfish. Different types of octopus, cuttlefish and squids.
BOGA WRECK
Also known as Kubu Wreck, the Boga Wreck is an artificial wreck that was submerged in 2012 in the Kubu village area, located 30 meters from the shoreline. The location of this artificial reef is not far from the famous USAT Liberty shipwreck. This wreck hosts several reef fish such as moray eels, angel fish, goat fish, anemone fish, fusilier fish, clown fish, stingrays, flounder, and more.
GEROMBONG
Two reefs separated by a rocky slope. Each reef and a small cavern are the highlights. It is a dive site that gives you a lot of options of diving it. The corals and the surrounding fish life are beautiful. Gorgonian and big snappers as well as fusiliers, garden eels and morays are on this site.