Manta Dive Gili Air

The harbour of Gili Air is home to much of the smaller marine life around the islands. As well as having frogfish, pipefish, seahorses, and other macro life, it is also the home for the famous mandarin fish, seen either on dawn- or dusk dives. A popular dive site for the macro crazed diver.

Purpose-Built Training Pool for Scuba & Freediving training pool is specially designed with freediving and scuba training in mind, offering the perfect controlled environment to build confidence, technique, and safety before heading into open water.

Training Pool: The training pool is specially designed for scuba diving training and is fully adapted for divers with disabilities, making it suitable for all students.

Off the west side of Gili Air is a sandy slope known for its coral bommies, soft coral, and macro marine life. Amongst the marine life here you can find schools of fusiliers and snappers. This is a great site for every level of diver.

Hans Reef is a gentle sandy slope that runs parallel to the shore and features a large coral mound and smaller outcrops. It is suitable for divers of all experience levels and is often used for training. It is excellent for night diving and navigation. Coral blocks attract a lot of marine life!

Travel time: 10 minutes Depth: 7 – 25 meters Level: All Levels Current: From nothing to strong Marine Life: Turtles, giant pufferfish, nudibranches, frogfish, octopus and cuttlefish Highlights: Large pinnacles, sand gullies, stingrays and a huge variety of macro life can found here There are many ways to explore this site and it give you something new to spot every time you visit. The sandy patch starts at around 7 meters; there you can find garden eels, sand lizardfish, frogfish, flounder and sea cucumbers. Going in an eastern direction you cross the ‘garden’ of the site dropping down to 15 meters; in the sea grass you can often find blue spotted stingrays and a diversity of smaller marine life. Along the sloping valleys batfish can be seen along with octopus and cuttlefish. On the large pinnacles there is lots of life to be found such as scorpion fish, puffers, schools of tropical reef fish and huge pink barrel sponges with sleepy turtles napping on top!