Night Dive, Tulamben

- Instructor/guide - All equipment - Park fees - Pick up/drop off in Amed Area

Melasti (depth 4-25 m) >This dive site is a proper muck dive. Only sand and rocks. Take your time to scope the sandy buttom and slope and many awesome creatures will appear. Sea moth, juvenile frogfish, cockatoo whaspfish, nudibranchs, wonderpus, pipefish, harlequin shrimp and more. A nice profile is to go check out the slope and then come back and spend time in the shallow. Great for underwater photography. Ghost Bay (depth 4-30 m) >Another great muck dive site in Amed. Sand, rocks and some smaller artificial structures. In the shallow you have a very good chance of finding the nudibranch (shaun the sheep) on the small green leafs. The rocks are home for pipefish, stone fish, octopus, lionfish, nudibranchs, scorpionfish, white eyed moray, etc. On the sandy slope you can be lucky to find frogfish and most of the time a lot of kuhl's stingray hang out here (20+). Great site for photography. Pyramids (depth 5-30 m) >Pyramids is one of our favorite dive sites in Amed. The site is called Pyramids because of the structures placed on the sandy bottom along the natural reef. Square concrete structures stacked on top of each other in the shape of a pyramid. They have been there for more than 15 years, so they are full of corals and life (cleaning stations). Great diversity in marine life; starting on sand you have garden eel, snake eel, tons of stingrays (25+), groups of fusiliers around the pyramids, leaf scorpion fish, morays, and so much more. This is also the site where we find turtles on most dives. Sometimes we experience a bit of current here; that just means that we will do the site as a mild drift dive. On the far right the reef turns into a beautiful wall. Definitely worth a visit. Jemeluk Bay and Jemeluk Wall (depth 4-40 m) >This dive site is a nice and sheltered bay. You can dive both sides of the bay. On the left you have a shallow reef, sandy slope, mermaid statues and a few pyramids. Batfish are hanging out here, and it is often nice for macro. Lots of life on the shallow reef. The right side of the bay is a slope that turns into a wall. The wall is great for macro and reef octopus, and lots of fish in the open blue. If you are lucky something bigger wil pass by; reef sharks, spanish mackerel, tuna. Underwater tempel and artificial structures are also to be found here. House Reef (depth 4-40 m) >Our house reef is a beautiful plateau full of huge pink sea fans, table corals, and beautiful coral formations (5-15 m). If you swim a bit out you have a nice wall and going left a beautiful slope (depth 40+ m). To dive here we have to time it right according to the tides; this dive site requires slack high to be able to enter/exit from the beach. We also experience current here from time to time, so if you want to do a nice drift dive it's possible to start in Jemeluk Bay around the corner and end the dive on our house reef. On this dive there's a good chance of spotting reef sharks, baracudas, giant trevallies, octopus, leaf scorpionfish, stingrays and lots more. Definitely worth a visit if the conditions are right. Bunutan Wall (depth 4-40 m) >Bunutan Wall is really more of a slope. Full of garden eels in the shallow and then a beautiful reef starting at 18 m. Here you often find honeycomb moray and octopus. The next part is a slope full of sea fans and barrel sponge. Often the current pick up here and you can fly over the slope. The currents here also often bring in bigger fish; giant barracuda, giant trevalley, tuna and so on. Towards the end of the dive the current will take off and the landscape is beautiful. Pinnacles almost to the surface, big sea fans, and table corals that might hide a juvenile white tip reef shark or two. With current this dive site is for more experienced divers. Lipah Bay (depth 4-40 m) >Lipah Bay is one of the most healthy reefs around here. This site is great for both beginners and experienced divers. Macro, nice big pinnacles, soft and hard corals full of life. The turtles are often to find here along with the white tip reef sharks. The juvenile sharks are hiding under the table corals from 5-30 meters, and when they grow bigger sometimes swimming on the reef. The deeper part of the reef (25+) is beautiful and often full of surprices. Also great for macro. This site is so colorful and has so much to offer, so you can easily do more than one dive here. Japanese Ship Wreck (depth 4-30 m) >The wreck itself is very small, less than 30 meters long and shallow 2-12 meters. We do not spend the whole dive around the wreck but move on to the reef on the left or right depending on the conditions. Great for macro, and here you find the pigmy seahorse. On the wreck you find glass fish, leaf scorpionfish, nudibranchs, and sometimes crocodile flathead fish on the sandy slope around the wreck. The currents here can be a bit funny (up and down currents) so we try to plan going there on slack tide with less current. The shallow part is so colorful; pink, yellow, and orange soft corals. Great for photography.