BALI DIVE SITES & SCUBA LOCATIONS
On the following map you can see many of the dive sites around Bali. It's impossible however to show all locations for Scuba diving on this map, the space is simply to small to display them all here.. Visit the appropriate area pages to see more detailed maps and descriptions of most of the known dive sites around Bali and it's sister islands.
Sanur's Three Dive Sites:
Three named dive sites exist at the reef in front of Sanur, which are named "Channel Point", "Penjor Reef" and "Jeladi Wilis". These three dive sites offer a bit different bottom composition each of them. Although there is a lot of marine life to see, sometimes the underwater visibility can be a challenge and currents depending on the tides.
Dive Sites Map of Sanur
Dive sites Map of the Sanur area
We feel that this is a good dive location for novice divers and refresher course participants and for those who do not have much time or want to travel long way to north (west) Bali. The minute marine life and coral formations make Sanur's dive sites interesting, as well as a convenient close to "basecamp" divetrip. Sanur certainly doesn’t offer Bali’s best diving, but if you want a quick and easy dive with interesting things to encounter, this is the place to visit.
Underestimated Area:
Some people say that diving in Sanur is a waste of time. However, BIDP disagree with this statement as we have seen wonderful small creatures like seahorse, mantis shrimp, blue ring octopus and many different nudibranchs in the area around the reef of Sanur. There is a vast variety of coral growth with boomies and large table corals present aswell. The Sanur area is underestimated.
NUSA PENIDA
DIVE SITES BALI
"Manta's, Mola's, Adventure Diving"
8º44' South 150º32' East
There are 3 islands here, Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan & Nusa Ceningan. These are located some 20 km from Bali's south-east coast. Nusa Penida is the largest of the three islands and is one of the main locations for scuba dive trips departing from Bali.
Nusa Penida is known for possible encounters with large pelagics like Manta Ray's (Manta Birostris) at Manta Point Dive Site and Mola Mola (Oceanic Sunfish) at other dive sites around the island. On one rare occasion our crew spotted a whale-shark..
The northern dive sites of Nusa Penida like Crystal Bay, Pura Ped and Toyapakeh are good destinations for Drift Diving. A boat ride with BIDP's speed boat of 45 minutes brings you to the best underwater adventures here in Bali Indonesia.
The divesites around Penida can be challenging. Upwellings from the deep can cause thermoclines and let the temperature drop to 20 degrees celsius. Currents running between the Nusa Islands and Lombok Strait are most of the time southward, but can be influenced in direction and strength by the monsoon seasons.
Nusa Penida photoNusa- Penida, Lembongan and Ceningan are located on the so called Wallace Line which runs between Bali and Lombok. The Wallace line is a boundary that separates the ecozones of Asia and Australasia. West of this line organisms live that relate to Asiatic species, East of this line most of the species are related to the Australian species. Scientist think that these boundary are present for some 50 million years and actually form the southwestern edge of the Sunda Earth Crust Shelf which links Borneo, Bali, Java and Sumatra to the mainland of southeast Asia.
BIDP organise daily dive trips to the Nusa Lembongan, Nusa Penida and Nusa Ceningan Islands and regularly visit 12 divesites. You can feel save to dive with an organisation with more then 25 years of experience diving in Bali, Indonesia.
Backgrounds:
Nusa Penida - Nusa Penida is part of the Klungkung Bali district. Long time ago the island of Nusa Penida was used as prison island to house convicts of the mighty Gelgel dynasty during their early 18th century rule under the Majapahit (or Madjapahit). The Gelgel Balinese kingdom conquered Lombok during that period some centuries ago.
Badung Strait - During WWII the Badung Strait was the location of "The Of Badung Strait". This event took place on 19 and 20 februar 1942. Allied forces had a confrontation here with the Imperial Japanese Navy.
