Ambon
- Maluku
Ambon City, the central hub of East Indonesia
and capital city of the Maluku Province, is home to one of the most
incredibly diverse marine ecosystems in Indonesia. This is have
spectacular reef dives with good coral coverage, schooling fish
and unusual formations.
There are so many species of fish present in the Ambon region that
specialists cannot give the exact total number. What is known is
that there are more than 3000 species of fish and several hundred
species of corals accounted for with the numbers still rising. Even
the healthiest of Caribbean reefs has only 10 or 20 percent of the
species diversity of a comparable reef in Ambon.
Ambon's diving was one of the mecca's of Indonesia's diving. The
near-mythical Twilight Zone, king of the Muck Dives in Ambon at
Laha is still great. Previously this site was filled with devil
scorpionfish, strange octopus, boxer crabs, leaf scorpionfish, nudibranchs
galore, weird frogfish, shrimps, stargazers, Flamboyant Cuttlefish,
Rhinopious, loads of frogfish, Cockatoo Waspfish, ghost pipefish.
There are so many species of fish present in the Maluku region
that specialists cannot give the exact total number. What is known
is that there are more than 3000 species of fish and several hundred
species of corals accounted for with the numbers still rising. Even
the healthiest of Caribbean reefs has only 10 or 20 percent of the
species diversity of a comparable reef in Maluku island.
Ambon Dive Centre, with easy travel logistics, comfortable facilities,
attentive staff and great diving, Maluku Divers is a place to visit
time and time again.
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