Nusa Penida

Nusa Penida is located of the southern tip of Bali. Some of Bali’s best diving is off the coast of Nusa Penida, including the legendary Manta Point. We travel to Nusa Penida from Sanur beach using ocean going speedboats, rather than the local “Jukung” outrigger boats which are used for in shore diving operations, this can take around 45 mins to get to the first of the many dive locations. Diving in Nusa Penida gives you the oppotunity to experiance the majestic Manta Rays as well as the incrdible Oceanic Sunfish (Mola Mola). These can be seen at a few sites including, Manta Point, Manta Bay, Crystal Bay.

Nusa Penida is also well known for some amazing drift dives along some of the most beautiful reefs. The marine life is in abundance and can be perfect for Videographers as well as Photographers a like. The Mola Mola season is generally considered to be between late July and often into November, but this season varies and these creatures can spotted sporadically, all year round. Oceanic Sunfish (Mola Mola) are reclusive animals and even in then season sightings are not guaranteed, if seeing this mysterious creature is on your bucket list, booking 2 of 3 days of diving at Nusa Penida will maximise your chances of a sighting. Advance booking for dives at Nusa Penida during this period is always recommended. Please be aware that Nusa Penida can be subject to choppy water and strong underwater currents, therefore we require that inexperienced or new divers request a “private guide”. This allows us to match air consumption rates so that everyone gets the best, most enjoyable and safest dive possible. Private guides can be shared between a group.

Duration
2x Dive
Location
Nusa Penida

Price
$180

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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 50 minutes longer compared to other sites in Nusa Penida. 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, no further deeper than 15 meters. The bottom composition is huge boulder rocks are stretching along the edge of the cliff, further left to the cliff do not exceed the ragged wall, where the current picks out up to the deep beside there will be no Manta Rays as well. And to right will continue slope bottom, the current gets stronger between two huge boulder rocks headed out on the surface. The best place to see Manta Rays are at the left corner about 5 meters beside the huge boulder rock, stay calm then Manta Rays will get closer and closer to swim around in small school of 3 to 6 Manta Rays.

Crystal Bay

Situated in the bay of Penida Village, which widely opens into Ceningan Channel between Nusa Penida and Nusa Ceningan (the smallest island amongst 3 sister islands). Inside the bay is anchored permanent floating buoys that are used to anchor the diving boats, and right in the middle of the bay stands the huge lime rocks on the edged of the channel as to mark this diving site. From the place where the anchor is, the plated sand bottom with some bommies are well covered by soft corals, keep swimming on the right side (north) from a huge single lime rock toward the the plated sand bottom with some bommies are

Toyapakeh

Is a small Muslim village on North Coast of the opening bay that separates Nusa Penida and Nusa Ceningan. Colonies of Acropora coral dominates, growing in shallow water. Down the slope along the edged reef grows short corals and leather soft corals, which in this part frequently swept by the currents. A variety of reef fish and even big pelagic fishes are abundance at this site. Around the end of June up to September, offers Sunfish cleaning station at the depth from 15 meters to 25 meters as the highlight of Toyapakeh and the water turns into cold roughly 20-24 degrees C. Also, Black Jacks and Turtles are frequently found here. The local dive operator sometimes call this place – coral garden-, and if the current starts from southwest is best descending from the edge between Bay and the Channel and fin along the edge to northeast under the jetty’s pillar, don’t go further as the swirl current often occurs, exit and end the dive is best option.

Sekolah Dasar (SD)

Stands for an elementary school in local language. The reef offshore is named SD point by the local dive operators. This site stretches as long as the coastline, it offers a pristine healthy coral reef with a number of reef fish mainly pelagic fish, as the reef is extends from the east marked by the white fibre buoy to the most west marked by the jetty, which it separates from Toyapakeh. It is best to do a drift dive because the shore currents are always flowing with uniform direction miles away and the coral heads spread along the slope bottom and make us easy to stop or hide behind them. Reef Shark, Sunfish (Mola-Mola) and even Manta Ray have frequently been seen. Experiencing a drift dive in Bali is best taking SD point at Nusa Penida.

Peed Point

Its named after the temple on the shore of the Peed village, apart from that on this beach was put the concrete wall to protect the beach from erosion. Descending right at the front of the wall in 5 meters water will lead toward the steep slope along the coastline, composition of the coral reef is mainly colonies of Stag Horn coral, coral heads and bommies rich with marine fishes, even pelagic like Sunfish often visits this site. The reef stretches east to west and both directions are interesting, best to begin the dive in the up currents. The water temperature is unpredictable changing and can drop to 22 degrees C whenever up current occurs.

Blue Corner Lembongan

This dive site is real adventure dive, suited only for experienced divers, where the current is unpredictable changing its strength and direction. The bottom composition is short polished corals due to strong current flows down slope until to the overhang in 25 meters, continues to deeper water. If suddenly caught by massive current safely hide in the overhang, wait there while viewing the variety of schooling fish like Marble Sting Rays, Sweetlipped fish, Tunas and many other creatures, which they stay against the current for prey.

Afterward start to move away scrolling along the bottom towards shallow water. When the air in the tank shows 75 bars find the ideal place to do safety stop. The water temperature roughly cold as the thermocline occurs quite often, it can reach 20 degrees C, be well prepared to dive at this point is a must like BCD, Regulator and Wet Suit. The adrenaline will rise up faster than any other dive sites. malibuMalibu Point. The reef at this point isn’t different than the dive sites on the north shore of Nusa Penida, gradual slope reef to 18 meters then sharper slope to deeper water. The reef grows short with many Sea Whips spreading along the slope and its length can be over 2 meters, these are the indication of the current sweeps frequently from mild to moderate. The diving descends down current until the corner of the most eastern tip of the Island, once close to the corner, current shifts toward open sea. The sea creatures have been reported to see are Reef Sharks, Manta Rays and other big pelagic, surely variety of tropical reef fishes. To get to this point will take another hours cruise from common Nusa Penida points like SD or Peed. Water temperature is about average 28 degrees C, and a safety stop is recommended to float up the sausage to be used by the skipper to get you after the dive.

Ceningan Wall

Ceningan Island is one of the smallest out of three sister islands of Nusa Penida, it offers a sheer wall dive with the healthiest reef, soft corals and table corals are well grown into Nusa Penida channel. To carry the dive activity at this point is a must to pick up the slack high tide where the water condition is full and calmness contrary will unable and unsafe to dive at it. Several of pelagic types are common countered a long the wall and their sizes are rather bigger compared are found in the other location around the Island.

The diving boat will then is anchored at the north tip of Ceningan Island from where group of divers descend to discover the wall and exit out down current in the channel. As the current is changeable its strengths and direction, to apply safety first is judgement as a crucial action to be taken by diver as personal or leader of the group. The water temperature is roughly cold as much as 25 C, sometime even lower as water from the deep rises up to the surface, well prepared of exposure suit is a must to be able to keep the body warm.