Top Snorkeling and Scuba Diving in Kota Ambon

Laha / Twilight zone is a muck diving site in the bay of Ambon, Indonesia. The site offers a wide range of macro creatures, frog fish, some bat fish, many moray eels and a shoal of scatfish. Since this site is under some piers where fishing boats are loaded and unloaded it can get very load under water (in particular when big blocks of ice get crushed and loaded on the fishing boats). Unfortunately there is also a lot of rubish (I really mean a lot) and carcasses of fish on this site. This looks ugly, but does also provide shelter for many other animals. Laha is also known as Twilight Zone.

The house reef of Maluku divers is located in front of the dive base in a village named Latuhalat on the south coast of Ambon. This dive spot is also a very good site for night diving. If you're lucky you might spot a very curious octopus on this site (for about 15min it put up big big show for us). In addition there are stonefish, scorpion fish, wasp fish, nudibrach, shrimps, big lobsters and much more. Highly recommended at night. The site is easily accessed from the beach in front of the dive center in Latuhalat, Ambon.

Air Manis is one of the best muck diving sites in Indonesia. The dive is in the area of a pier which is used to load and unload fishing boats. The pier and its surrounding is full of interesting macro live. In November 2008 several giant frogfish, flmboyant cuttlefish, pipefish, ghostpipe fish, crionoid clingfish and crionoid crabs, a group of batfish, a nice schoal of scatfish and much more was around on every dive.

Hukurila Canyon is a site on the sout coast of Ambon. The dive starts through a canyon which ends in a nice big cave with nice fans, coral and sponges. After the canyon and the cave the dive continues with a wall. In terms of landscape this is IMHO the nicest site on the south coast.

This fairly big wreck lies in the bay of Ambon. The dive starts on the bow on about 35m and follows to main deck up to 8m-10m depth. The wreck has a nice coral cover and is home to many moray eels, frog fish, nudbrach and other small critters. The name of the wreck is not (yet) known. Maluku divers once had a name for this ship, but in the meantime this particular ship resp. its wreck was found somewhere else. The shipwreck in the bay of Ambon can be accessed by boat only.

The Tanjung Hukurila is located on the south coast of Ambon. On the deeper part of the dive you swim aorund a ridge where you can spot pigymy seahorses (Bargibanti), Turtles and if you are lucky also some bigger animals. Second part of the dive is a beautiful wall with rich coral growth and nice macro life. This site is one of the few I've seen on Ambon where the reeftop seems to be fully intact and has a lot of soft coral growth. Tanjung Hukurila is on the south coast of Ambon and esily accessed by boat.