Ambai Itinerary

Halmahera - Misool - Ring of Fire (TTE - AMQ) 14N

Day 1:
Check in from 6 am to 12 noon. Ambai crew are standing by to Welcome you onboard. Cabin allocation and ship orientation, safety Briefing and crew Introduction will take place before departing. 

Starting from Ternate, we first reach the group of Goraichi Islands where many seamounts offer gorgeous dive sites: bommies covered with colourful soft corals, blacktip sharks, tunas and other pelagics.

Going further South came another group of islands (Kusu isl, Sale isl.), at the very North of Patinti Strait. The strait currents forced around the islands brings an intense life to those dive sites which are definitely among the most beautiful of Indonesia. We still go further south into the Pantientie Strait to the island of Pigajara for a wooden shipwreck and beautiful dives.

The next stop is at Pisang islands, between Halmahera and Misool. This isolated island with a  few satellite rocks is home to intense underwater life: millions of triggerfish, schools of surgeonfish, bump head parrotfish, Spanish mackerels and tunas passing by.

We then reach the island of Misool at the Southern part of Raja Ampat. We stay there for three days and dive into the best sites. Expect gorgonian forests, a lot of soft corals, and intense fish life.

From Misool, we head to Koon, at the eastern tip of Seram islands. The dive site there has been named “too many fish”. A drop off with schools of trevallies, surgeonfish, barracudas, and hopefully hammerhead sharks. On the upper part there is a sandy slope with bommies, huge groupers and schools of spadefish.

Our next step is the Banda islands. In the centre of the Banda Sea, those islands have been at the centre of the spice trade and war in the 16th century. The diving around those islands is very good. One of the highlights is a dive along the lava flow of the “Gunung Api” (the fire mountain); the last eruption was in 1988 and we can see how the corals and huge sponges did grow back since then. We will do a land visit to Banda Neira in the afternoon, visiting the village, the museum and the fort.

If the weather forecast and sea conditions are good enough the trip will go down south until Serua island, the best place for encounters with schooling hammerheads. Two days of fabulous diving around this tiny island lost in the middle of the Banda Sea. 

From Serua we will be back to Suanggi island, a few miles away from the Banda islands. This is also a great spot for hammerhead sharks and other pelagics.  

Our last day of diving is on the island of Nusa Laut or in the bay of Ambon for some muck diving. 

Day 15: 

Check out from 6 am to 12 noon. Group photos with the crew before farewell. Disembarkation after breakfast. Transfer to airport or hotel. 

Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics, and local regulations.