LIPAH BAY
Depth: 3-21m / All Levels / Access from Shore / protected waters, coral, critters, sandy slope.
Just behind the diving centre is Lipah Bay. This is a great site for snorkellers, for discovering scuba diving or new divers wanting to develop their skills in calm, clear waters.
Advanced photographers looking for strange critters will also love this site. Look out for lion fish, moray eels, small frog-fish, leaf scorpion fish, ornate ghost pipe-fish, mimic octopus, seahorses…The reef is very healthy and colourful, it’s like a giant aquarium only a few meters away from the shore.
BUNUTAN
Depth: 6-35m / Advanced Divers / Access by boat / Slope/ Garden eels, Big fish, gorgonians, good visibility/ moderate to strong current.
One of the prettiest dive sites in Amed. It takes 10 minutes from our dive shop by local outrigger or Jukung to get to the dive site. You drop down onto a gigantic eel garden, following the gentle slope you find huge sponges, blue spotted stingrays, beautiful pink gorgonians, morays, giant barracudas, pygmy seahorses, unbelievable quantities of reef fish and, frequently, black tip reef shark.
JAPANESE SHIPWRECK
Depth: 2-30 m / All levels / Access from shore/ small wreck
& coral dive / staghorn corals / possible currents.
Just a few meters away from the shore, in shallow water, lies a 20 meter long shipwreck fully covered with healthy soft and hard corals suitable for all levels of divers and for snorkellers. The reef behind the shipwreck is one of the most colourful and healthiest reefs around the Amed area. This site has much to offer for experienced divers too, such as leaf scorpion fish, mantis shrimp and small critters. Other predators tend to hang out around the wreck, attracted by the swarms of tiny fish.
DEEP BLUE
Depth: 6-30 m / Advanced Divers / Access by boat / strong to moderate current / big fish, school of jacks.
Just 15 minutes from Eurodive by Jukung there is a challenging drift dive along beautiful topography and healthy coral reef. You drop into a coral garden at around 5 m then the current picks you up and takes you off. Divers very often see plenty of reef fish, turtles, sharks and all sorts of big fish.
JEMELUK BAY & WALL
Depth: 1-21 m / All Divers / Access from shore or boat / easy snorkelling and beach diving in a protected bay or dive along the drop off (5/40 m)
There are two dives in Jemeluk. The protected bay offers easy snorkelling, beach diving and some artificial reef as well as a beautiful coral garden. One of the good spots to find ghost pipe-fish, bat-fish glide between the statues and you’ll find plenty of scorpion fish. Schools of big mouth mackerels patrol the area.
The wall is a dive in clear water along a steep drop off (80 m). Carried by the gentle current, divers are astonished by the abundance of fish life from macro size to bigger ones and the huge pink gorgonian fan corals.
PYRAMIDS
Depth: 5-22 m / All Divers / Access by boat or shore / Slope / garden eels, stingrays, frog-fish, pygmy seahorses/ good for photography / artificial reef / possible current & drift dive.
Several pyramid-shaped concrete structures on a sandy bottom form lovely artificial reefs around 20 m. The local community placed those open-block structures here in the early 1990’s as fish aggregation devices. The pyramids are coated in marine growth and many have become cleaning stations for passing fish such as snappers, sweetlips and surgeons. A natural Coral reef from 5 m to 18 m borders the area. It’s possible to see critters like pygmy seahorse, leaf scorpion fish, frog-fish and turtles. Some current may occur depending on the tides.
GILI SELANG
Depth: 6-35 m / very experienced divers / Access by boat / Slope / Big fish, gorgonians, good visibility & possible current / drift dive.
At the most eastern tip of Bali, this site offers a dive to remember because of its difficult character. Strong currents keep the coral reef healthy; lots of fish, sharks and even Mola Mola can be seen at this spot. Only for very experienced divers.
