What makes diving in Amed special?
Aside from the fact that Amed is in its own way is a beautiful, unique and peaceful paradise... the scuba diving will live up to your greatest expectations!
What type of diving is in Amed?
Amed offers everything from shallow reef dives, wall dives along steep drop offs, gentle and exiting drift dives, three shipwrecks, fantastic muck dives and some brilliant sites for the keen photographers among you! Most dives here are accessible by shore, just step off the beach in certain areas and within a few meters you will find an abundance of fish and healthy corals. Some of our drift dives are done using traditional fishing boats called Jukungs.
What will I see while diving?
Everything! From little to large, colourful fish and silvery hunters, many pelagic and hundreds of reef fish, nudibranchs and frog fish, and even whale sharks, Mola molas, Thresher sharks and Eagle rays, have been spotted in our waters!
The ‘usual suspects’ will be spotted on most dives. Butterfly fish, colourful angelfish, trumpet fish, curious surgeon fish, anemone fish (including nemo), stunning Lionfish, vibrant blue damselfish, beautiful sweetlips and hunting trevallies.
You are also likely to come across ‘the visitors’ including turtles, moray eels, blue spotted stingrays, nudibranchs, barracuda, mosaic napoleon wrasse, unique bumphead parrotfish, leaf scorpionfish, reef sharks and garden eels.
‘The weird’ - especially if you are out muck diving, sea horses, cow fish, ornate ghost pipefish, heaps of nudibranchs, frogfish, boxer crabs and peacock mantis shrimps.
And ‘the elusive’ harlequinn shrimp, stargazers, cute lady bugs, electric clams, pygmy seahorses, the rare mimic octopus and the rhinopias.
What is the water temperature in Amed?
The sea in Amed is an average temperature of 27-30°C (80-84°f) with lows of 26°C and highs even up to 31°C on some days! Most people decide to dive in a 3mm shorty wetsuit, with some opting for a long 3-5mm and some divers even just in their swimmers.
What are the conditions of the corals?
Generally we are blessed with healthy corals. There is the global issue of coral bleaching but luckily it hasn’t hit our waters yet with such a severe impact as other places. We can see a gradual decline in the amount of coral growth in some areas but contradictory to that, coral at some dive sites are actually growing which is great! There are quite a few artificial structures and reef projects underwater in Amed which are allowing the coral something to grow on and for fish to habitat. Bali Dive Cove have a plan within the next few years to start our own underwater project.
Come and see for yourself!
