Dive Sites Guide:
- Batu Butuh
- Terumbu Tiga/ Tiger Rock
- Tanjung Basi
- Batu Layar
- Gua Kambing
- Teluk Pauh
- Batu Nisan
- Teluk Kerma/ De Lagoon
- Kerma Laut
- Batu Tabir
- Karang Selat/ Batu Kuching/ Secret Reef
- Tokong Laut/ Temple of the Sea
- Sea Bell Rock
- Vietnamese Wreck
- Artificial Reef
- Teluk Dalam/ Light House
- Sugar Ship Wreck
Description of Dive sites |
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| 1. Tanjung Tukas | Bubbles Dive Centre's House Reef. Special feature critters, the little anemones shrimps, pipe fish. A site ideal for beginner, check diving, and macro photography. Bubbles' conservation project area, an intensive care unit for stress coral is located here. |
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| 2. Batu Butuh | A series of Swim thrus with interesting boulders formation. | ||||
| 3. Terumbu Tiga/ Tiger Rock | One of the favorite dive sites amongst the divers who know Perhentian's dive sites. The dive site consists of 3 main boulders, thus creating many interesting rock chambers for easy swim thrus, and perfect hiding place for many shy fish, namely Brown Marble Groupers. A paradise for nudibrunch lovers. | ||||
| 4. Tanjung Basi |
The name Tanjung Basi means Cape Stale, the origin of the name is due to it's reach marine life, often fisherman caught so many fish that they forgotten to stop for their lunch, and thus all their food turn steal there. Tanjung Basi probably have the healthiest carol one can find around this region, this site also house some special species one can find easier here but not another dive sites around Perhentian, namely Orange-spine Unicornfish , Pinktail Triggerfish , Lined Sweetlips, and Brown Marble Groupers. |
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| 5. Batu Layar | A submerge reef, featuring beautiful hard coral garden, and yellowtail barracudas. | ||||
| 6.Gua Kambing | A unique dive site, it is locate on the "high way" from the fishing village to Long Beach, therefore the boat traffic can he hazardous for those who do not know the site well. The highlight of this dive site is cleaning stations. Jenkin's whipray can be found often underneath boulders to be clean. One unique cleaning station featuring manicure shrimps, where hingebeak shrimp will clean divers' fingers and toes if the diver is gamed enough. | ||||
| 7.Teluk Pauh | Easy reef for biginner, healthy coral and a common place for turtle sighting. It is situated at the busiest snorkelling area, normally there are many boats and snorkellers around the dive site. | ||||
| 8. Batu Nisan | This is the dive site where the divers will definately be able to swim with Jenkin's Whiprays. It is the place where whiprays come in to be clean. If you are lucky, you will have meet the inquisitive resident hawksbill turtle. This dive site is lesser known to most dive operators, therefore there is little underwater traffic. | ||||
| 9. De Lagoon/ Teluk Kerma | One of the famous site of Perhentian Islands, this dive site feature hard coral garden, with often sighting of both green and hawksbill turtles, brown marble grouper, Napoleon Wrasse, and Humphead Parrotfish. Also another popular snorkelling site. | ||||
| 10. Kerma Laut | Some people call this place a surprised rock, reason being the rock is found by surprised, also this dive site sometime is visited by surprised visitors, such as giant bloched head ray. Schooling action can be expected if dive at the right tide. Vortexing Barracudas, Talang Queenfish are amongst the frequent visitors there. The boulders formation also offers a wide range of nudibrunch for macro lovers. | ||||
| 11. Batu Tabir | Around the corner from Kerma Laut, therefore it is also a place for surprises at the cape, further around the cape a shallow coral garden is ideal for photography and slow relaxing dive. | ||||
| 12. Batu Kuching/ Secret Reef | A small dive site consist of a few boulders, it is Perhentian Islands' deep dive site. Max depth for this dive site is 30m, and the top of the reef is not shallow enough for planning a multilevel dive, therefore a short dive time will be planned. The dive site is one of the richest in marine life site. Given the location of the rocks are situated in the middle with no reef in vicinity, therefore the schooling action there is amazing. But thermocline accour often at this dive site. So don't expect good visibility. | ||||
| 13. Tokong Laut | The super star of Perhentian Islands. Some call this the pinicale, or temple. It is ranked the most beautiful dive site of Perhentian Island. | ||||
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