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The sea around Komodo Island offers
vibrant colors and exotic marine life which will enchant divers and
snorkelers alike as endless schools of fish ride the waterways rushing
up from deep sea vents, below them the seabed is covered with a thick
carpet of florescent corals and marine invertebrates, an underwater
photographers paradise.
The waters that surround the island are
turbulent and teeming with unparalled marine life. A marine reserve has
recently been established and this reserve is largely undocumented and
remains unexplored. Komodo National Park
was established in 1980. It was declared as a Man and Biosphere Reserve
and a World Heritage Site in 1986. KNP includes three major islands -
Komodo, Rinca and Padar and numerous smaller islands together totaling
41,000 ha of land contains 132,000 ha of marine waters.
The corals in Komodo National park are
pristine, with Mantas, sharks, turtles, dolphins, dugong, many pelagics,
to the tiny pygmy seahorses, nudibranchs, frog fish, you name it we've
got it. The sites vary from gentle easy coral slopes to heart pounding
adrenalin rides, from the warm waters of the Flores Sea in the north to
the chillier waters down south in the Indian Ocean, the underwater
terrain is so varied with sheer cliff walls, pinnacles, sandy flat
bottoms, underwater plateaus, slopes, caves, swim-throughs, channels,
all with varying colours, sizes and types of coral both hard and soft.
For more information on diving around Komodo, please click diving-indonesia.net. For information on Komodo island, click Komodo National Park, and information on the island of Flores, click: The Island of Flores.
DIVE SITES:
Bidadari Island
Angel Steps, huge towers of stone,
encrusted with hard and soft corals, covered in nudibranchs, small caves
and overhangs make this a very interesting and beautiful site, Dusky
sharks, humphead parrot fish are among the bigger creatures we see here.
Cathedral Coral, a gentle slope covered with table corals of every
colour and schooling fish, a towering spire of coral with a small cave
at it's base is the home to some huge lobsters.
Sabolon
Sabolon kecil a slope on the east side
of this tiny island, with two underwater mounds at the southern end with
fields of garden eels and sea pens, schools of round bat fish are often
seen coming quite close for some nice photography.
Sabolon Besar steep slopes off the
southern and western sides of the bigger island, fabulous coral coverage
and a good chance of spotting Scorpion leaf fish.
Sebayur kecil walls and slopes of every
kind of coral you can imagine, wide variety of marine life to be seen at
this site, mantas often seen.
Tatawa Besar slope with soft coral
garden changing to hard coral along the slope, lots of shoaling fish,
rainbow runners, fuseliers and often turtles and black tip sharks.
Tatawa Kecil (current city) as the name
implies, this site is washed by very strong currents, which is why this
site is among the many world class sites in the Komodo National Park,
schools of pelagic fish patrol the waters, best dived at slack tide.
Batu Bolong
A little further west from current city a
small rock outcrop with a hole through it is the surface mark of
another world class site, only to be dived at slack tide or with a
current not long from stopping or starting to run, these giant slabs of
rock which disappear into the depths are an amazing sight to see,
covered with every form of marine life and patrolled by giant trevally,
Napoleon Wrasse, sharks and turtles with schools of barracuda sweeping
in to check out the divers.
Diving the Komodo National Park provides some fantastic conditions:
- WATER TEMPERATURE: 20 - 28 Degrees Celsius (68-85 F) , cooler water is experienced on the southern sites. Full 3mm wetsuit & hood is recommended. More active people will prefer a sports suit in northern sites.
- VISIBILITY: 10 - 50M year round. Traditionally clearer water on northern sites.CURRENT: Komodo experiences a strong tidal flow. Not all sites are affected by current. Drift diving is excellent, however during spring tides some sites are impossible to dive. Particular attention is placed on diving the correct sites at the most suitable time to ensure optimum conditions, in accordance with the preferences of the group.
- NIGHT DIVING: The night diving in Komodo is breathtaking. The sheer beauty, color and diversity of life makes it a must see for all divers.
- WALLS: There are numerous walls to choose from. Both drift and static wall dives are offered.
- CANYONS: Huge chasms drop thousands of meters, fringed by extraordinary coral gardens.
- CRITTERS: Found in all locations, however we do offer special sites for encountering unusual marine species.
- OTHERS: Seamounts, fringing reefs, gutters, muck, and sandy locations are also found in the archipelago.
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