Manado Diving
The island is surrounded by huge fields of hard corals; it has an amazing diversity of invertebrate fauna, big fishes and deep canyons. One of our favourite sites is Batu Kapal, a natural canyon formation which starts at 40m and goes down to about 70m, making it only suitable for advanced divers – why not take an Advance Diver course [link to course]. Hammerheads have also been spotted here, although there has been damage to the corals by dynamite fishing.
Half way to Manado off the coast of the mainland there is a 75m long cargo shipwreck that lies at a 24-40 meters.
The wreck is covered with colourful soft corals and it is a perfect hiding place for numerous schools of fishes, as well as scorpionfish, leaffish, nudibranchs and flat worms.
There is a gentle slope from the ship wreck up to the reef top, and at about 10m you can find many coral heads and black sand full of fascinating small critters such as ghostpipefish, nudibranchs and pipefishes which are not found anywhere else on earth.
The Molas shipwreck was a Dutch cargo vessel sunk during WWII near Molas beach, just outside the town of Manado. The deepest part of the wreck lies in 40m water
Half way to Manado off the coast of the mainland there is a 75m long cargo shipwreck that lies at a 24-40 meters.
The wreck is covered with colourful soft corals and it is a perfect hiding place for numerous schools of fishes, as well as scorpionfish, leaffish, nudibranchs and flat worms.
There is a gentle slope from the ship wreck up to the reef top, and at about 10m you can find many coral heads and black sand full of fascinating small critters such as ghostpipefish, nudibranchs and pipefishes which are not found anywhere else on earth.
The Molas shipwreck was a Dutch cargo vessel sunk during WWII near Molas beach, just outside the town of Manado. The deepest part of the wreck lies in 40m water
