The Banda Island for Diving

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The Banda Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Banda) is one of the most beautifull place for diving in Indonesia. Either you are expert in diving or still a new one, you will enjoy the place. You can Start diving from Banda Neira up to vertical wall in Hatta Island. When you dive there sometimes you will see shark, penyu , a scholl of Napoleon Wrasse, tuna, big lobster and baraccuda. The Banda Island is a group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea, about 140km south of Seram island and about 2000km east of Java, and are part of the Indonesian province of Maluku. The main town and administrative centre is Bandanaira, located on the island of the same name. The Banda Island have a population of about 15,000.

Places for Diving in Banda Island.
Sonegat : This is the nearest place to dive. It’s around 5 minutes from beach. The location at Sonegat sea arm among Banda Neira and Volcano ( Gunung Api ) . Don’t forget to rent a guide man. There is one famous boy there. His name is Des Alwi. You can hire him as your tour guide. In this area you will see dogtooth tune , blue girdled and emperor angelfish.

Keraka Island : Keraka Island or some of people said The Crab island. A sand carpet in the north coast really a beautifull places for picnic. In the south of the coast there are several mini wall as high as 18 metre that was covered by hundreds large blue and yellow tunicates. In the east of the coast, you could see in the depth 10 metre , various fish of the coral stone and a group of barracuda.

Sjahrir Island and The Kapal Stone: The Sjahrir Island or that previously was known as the Island of bananas and the Kapal Stone only 20 minutes from the hotel in Banda-Neira by using the boat. This two places is a good for the activity dive in the morning, and the activity dive in the afternoon.
The volcano ( Gunung api ) : in May, 1988, the explosion from this mountain killed almost all coral around the Volcano, but now , some coral is grow again. The slope of the seabed reached 30-35 metre.
Lontar Island : the most outside fence from the Island threw, it was representative the outskirts part one sunken caldera, offered several good places for dove.
The Dutch stone: in this place, you will find heterogenous barrel and the tube sponge, and small caves and the gap. The fish that was in this area was very varying and heterogenous: a group snappers, large the Emperor, and blue-girdled angelfish, wrasses, large pinnate bat-fish and heterogenous bannerfish.
A i Island: this island offered the place dove best in the Banda Island. Good in the north and south coast and west from the Ai Island, was surrounded with the wall of perfect coral. Very beautifull
Hatta Island: the Hatta Island only 25 Km from the Island of Banda-Neira. A coral could be under the surface of sea water found some hundred metre from the south of the Hatta Island. To a coral that emerged to the surface of the earth, you could see the parade from unicornfish, Fusiliersm Jack Fish, and Rainbow Runners, often were see Whitetip Sharks.