1. Crystal Bay
Crystal Bay is most famous for the mola mola. Your chance of spotting a Mola mola is the highest here. Its is a small bay on West Nusa Penida and is relatively protected. Diving takes place around a rock and besides the mola mola offers some beautiful reef life. The ocean sunfish, Mola mola, or common mola, is the heaviest known bony fish in the world. It has an average adult weight of 1,000 kg (2,200 lb). The species is native to tropical waters.
2. Tulamben
The 120m long wreck rests on a 90 degree angle with the deck facing the open sea and used to be an American USS Liberty ship. It was hit by a Japanese torpedo during World War II.
In 1963 Mount Agung erupted and the magma flow pressed the ship back into the sea where it presently rests at a depth of 3 to 29 metres. Since then, coral has coated the wreckage turning it into a new home for an extraordinary number of fish, coral and invertebrates.bump-head, parrotfish, napoleon and barracudas are regularly spotted around the wreck, make it become Top World Favorite Sites
3. Manta Point
The name of this dive site is derived from the Giant Manta Ray patrols around it, often found by the divers and almost all the year around. To get this site is a must to cruise 30 minutes to Nusa Penida island. Its location is the most south of the island; potentially hazardous its big surges, which could affect the technique of entry procedure, sometime starts from deep water. The maximum depth would be 15 meters, mostly stay in 4 to 6 meters where Manta Rays patrol along the line of the cliff, The bottom composition is huge boulder rocks are stretching along the edge of the cliff
4. Menjangan
Part of Menjangan National West Marine Park. Menjangan dive sites boast spectacular reefs and walls, groupers, large groups of jacks and turtles and some beautiful scenery. Secret Bay on the other hand is best known for its muck diving and wonderful and weird critters – a photographer’s delight
Dive sites typically offer pristine waters, colourful marine life and milder conditions suitable for divers and snorkelers of all levels, here is home to lots of colourful small fish and vertebrates, lacy sea fans and a variety of sponges, a good spot for occasional sightings of barracuda, white tip reef sharks, turtles and napoleon wrasse.
POS I offers a spectacular drop off with healthy blossoming corals, crevices and fissures, as well as some small caves along the reef , and POS II offers a spectacular drop off with healthy blossoming corals, crevices and fissures, as well as some small caves along the reef.
5. Blue Lagoon
Located about 40 kms, East of Sanur. Here the water is strewn with a full growth of coral, fishes will surely guarantee an impressive underwater adventure. Blue Lagoon With the bluest waters in all of Bali, Blue Lagoon certainly lives up to its name. With sloping corals to the left side and a beautiful wall dive to the left side Blue Lagoon has something for everyone. There are many things to be found here from occasional reef shark to cow-fish, cuttlefish and octopus, frog fish or maybe leaf scorpion fish . Jepun the wreck itself lies in 16.5m of water just next to artificial corals. All sorts of weird and wonderful creatures can be found here from frog fish, blue spotted stingrays, lionfish, cuttlefish can be found here.
6. Amed
Amed is a 2 hour drive from Sanur and has some of the best macro life in Bali. Set against a backdrop of black sand and often stunning walls, it is a great place to take some truly memorable photographs . 5 minutes from the main beach in Amed, Pyramid is a sandy slope that leads down to a series of man made pyramids- hence the name! The pyramids are made out of a mixture of tyres and metal boxes and house some often extraordinary macro life. If you get far enough along the site then as you turn the corner the sandy bottom turns into a beautiful wall where there is sometimes a good chance of spotting turtles.
7. Sakenan Point
The dive sites around Nusa Penida (and sister islands Nusa Lembongan are well-known for great drift diving. There are lots of different dive sites, so you and your dive guides will be able to find one with suitable conditions depending on your diving experience. Some of the coral reefs are several kilometers long and you can dive the whole length in a series of dives, current permitting. Other drift diving such as Ped point, SD point, Malibu point are offer great Drift diving experince in Nusa penida area.
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