Diving Bangka
Bangka Island. Sea mounts and pinnacles, wonderful soft corals and sponges. underwater scenary. Big fish and diverse macro life. The resort, with its ocean view bungalows set in powder white sand in a coconut grove, is paradise on earth.

BANGKA island and area:
The underwater topography consists of pinnacles and white sandy bottom. Interesting and unusual marine life such as the comet fish, flying gurnard etc. have found their way to these reefs. Abundant hard and soft corals cover the pinnacles ranging from as shallow as 5m to 35 meters. You will also find a variety of unusual decorator crabs roaming the reef during night dives. There can be strong currents and surge at shallower depths. Highlights include big table corals, often with sharks resting under them, an abundance of green and purple soft corals and a multitude of fish, including schools of jacks, dogtooth tuna, barracudas, midnight blue triggerfish and manta rays.

Diving Lembeh Strait
The muck diving capital of the world. An underwater photographer's dream. You will see more rare critters in one dive than you will see anywhere else on the planet. Six species of Frog fish regularly seen, ribbon eels, ghost pipe fish, dwarf lion fish, Pegasus sea moths, scorpion fish? and then there are the WWII wrecks.

Lembeh Strait has about 40 interesting dive sites - including two wrecks, Mostly it's patch reef on a sandy slope. Though there are coral meadows on the northern end of the strait, the focus here is muck diving - peeling back layers of life. This is the universe of the weird and wonderful and is home to a huge variety of exotic critters .Shy critters such as the Mimic octopus, Flamboyant cuttlefish, Harlequin shrimp, Wonderpus, Skeleton shrimps are often seen. The Pigmy sea horse, Cockatoo leaf fish, Stargazer, Frogfishes are also in residence. Further north up the strait, fringing volcanic reefs are home to some of the most unusual marine wildlife communities on earth. Pegasus, ghost pipefish and the endemic Banggai cardinal fish are some of the more unusual species in residence.