Damai I Itinerary

Halmahera

Day 1: Arrive into Ternate
The flight usually arrives in Ternate in the morning, and you will go directly to Damai and make yourselves comfortable. You can complete a checkout dive today depending on how you feel. We'll let you decide.
No. of Dives: 0 or 1

Day 2: Tifore
A small island between Halmahera and Sulawesi, Tifore's seamount has exuberant gardens of hard coral and plenty of life, including large schools of jacks and barracudas, as well as reef sharks.
No. of Dives: 4

Day 3: Halmahera Seamount
A surprise and a delight for everyone's eyes. Coming from the depths of the ocean to 5 meters, this hidden treasure is booming with life: schooling oceanic triggerfish, rainbow runners, thousands of fusiliers reef sharks, and turtles. We will spend the whole day there to go into Goraici for the night dive and safe anchorage.
No. of Dives: 4

Day 4: Pasir Karo

Few reefs in the area can compare with Pasir Karo. A sloping reef, going to a depth of 25 meters where a sandy bottom meets the reef. Immaculate coral growth and a perfect balance of life: small, medium and some big stuff. The afternoon we will head toward the northeast of the island of Sarawak to do muck diving in the afternoon and night dive.

No. of Dives: 4

Day 5: Pulau Bacan

Begin the day with a dramatic wall dive off Tanjung Marengarango. Check out the schooling fish; barracuda, snapper, and fusiliers, and the potential for some great passing pelagics.

Spend the afternoon enjoying some excellent muck diving along the boat-building beach at Penambuan; excellent habitat amongst the variety of black sand, pebbles, algae and coral heads. Hunt for octopus, colourful nudibranchs, frogfish, seahorses, cuttlefish, and unusual shrimp.

No. of Dives: 4

Day 6: Pulau Kusu & Salea

Currents flow in the channel between Bacan and Halmahera; the waters are the richest in the area, and fans and soft corals dominate the reefs. Great combination of soft and hard corals and some of the fishiest dives in the whole Maluku. Good chances to see white- and blacktip reef sharks.

Start the day at Batu Mandy near the island of Salea. Schools of fusilier, snappers and trevally embellish a pinnacle formation that sometimes also hosts manta rays and reef sharks. Later in the day enjoy the beautiful reefs around the islands of Pokal and Kusu. Frogfish, ghost pipefish, and pontohi have been spotted here.

No. of Dives: 4

Day 7: Goraici

Series of small islands with surprisingly good healthy reefs. This current rich location has a huge amount of schooling fish; surgeonfish, ocean triggerfish, snappers, fusiliers, rainbow runners, sharks and much more, we have seen in several occasions' mantas coming to feed in the shallow waters of a lagoon.

No. of Dives: 2

Day 8: Departure

Guests will be escorted to the airport in Ternate and assisted with check in procedures, no doubt full of talk about the wonders of the most popular dive destination in the world.

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