Muck Diving in Indonesia

The nation of islands Indonesia has some of the best location in the world for scuba diving as well as muck diving. Muck diving isn’t perfect in any scuba diving location. Scuba diving in Indonesia has many reefs and islands for muck diving. The macro photographers will find many Indonesian islands as their paradise with all the rare ocean spices like mimic octopus, the ornate ghost pipefish, the flamboyant cuttlefish and the pygmy seashore. Some of the best locations for muck diving in Indonesia are the Lembeh strait in North Sulawesi, Raja Ampat and Ambon. 

North Sulawesi has many beautiful scuba diving sites including that are real paradise for muck diving. You will find many of the rare critters and nudibranchs in the dive sites towards north Bali. Some of them are Secret Bay, P.J. and Seraya Secret. Of course there are many more dive sites like these ones that are really good for muck diving in Indonesia. 

If you want to explore Indonesia as a muck diver, then you can also head towards Raja Ampat. There are many great locations around Raja Ampat that have all those marine spicies to excite anyone looking for muck diving in Indonesia. The water in Raja Ampat has the highest biodiversity on Earth and became the most wanted attraction for underwater photographers from all over the world. 

Ambon is also a very famous place for muck diving in Indonesia with no doubt. The dive sites has a large number of critters that you can see and photograph during your long dives. When muck diving in Ambon, you can expect to see mnay undewrwater creatures like rhinopias, assorted frogfish, mandarin fish, ghost pipefish, harlequin shrimp, flamboyant cuttlefish, blue ring and hairy octopus, thorny and pygmy seahorse, stonefish, inimicus, hundreds of different species of nudibranch and much more.


There are more than 100 dive sites for muck diving in the locations we talked about. For more adventure you may also think of Philippines and Malaysia. They also have so many great dive sites for scuba diving and muck diving.