Diving Manado

Diving Manado

Do you enjoy the convenience of liveaboard diving; or do you prefer the comfort of a resort? With Eco Divers North Sulawesi you can have BOTH!
Our PADI 5 Star Center in Lembeh is the only one in Indonesia to offer you a distinctive experience of diving from a liveaboard by day followed by sleeping in a resort each night. This is where you can literally have the best of both worlds.
In Manado, our dive center at Minahasa Lagoon is based on the highest levels of comfort, value, safety and environmental responsibility. The Resort has earned a reputation for offering an outstanding holiday experience being set in an unspoilt location away from the crowds. Dive with Eco Divers and you're guaranteed a unique and memorable holiday experience.
Since 2000, Eco Divers has provided the best value for money, first-class customer service and the highest safety available anywhere in Indonesia. We believe in responsible tourism, energy efficiency and sustained livelihoods. Dive with us and you'll also be helping to protect the environment and improve the lives of our workers and their families.

Eco Divers Resort Lembeh is our top rated twelve-room boutique property. We provide a friendly, personalized service, a highly organized dive service and exceptional cuisine. Come and enjoy 'all the convenience of a Liveaboard, all the comfort of a resort'™.
Eco Divers Manado, Minahasa Lagoon has its own house reef and is on the doorstep of the South section of Bunaken National Park, giving easy access to the many unspoilt and uncrowded coral and critter dive sites within a short boat ride. The stunning vertical wall dives of Bunaken's islands are part of the varied dive program.
Both resorts are PADI 5 Star IDC centers with the full range of diver training courses. Underwater photographers are in their element as we operate North Sulawesi's only dedicated photo/video facility, The Digital Centre™, with a resident photo professional.
Dive the Best of Both Worlds, with Eco Divers

Bunaken Island

About Raja Laut

Raja Laut in indonesian language means "King of the Sea". In this case we refer to a fish, a special one, indeeed. The Coelacanth were believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period.

There are two different coelacanth species: latimeria chalumnae and latimeria menadoensis. 

Bunaken National Marine Park was established in 1991, in 2004 the magazine Asian Divers votes Bunaken’ s walls as the best in Asia. But Bunaken is not only fantastic coral reef diving, on the mainland is also possible to find interesting “muck diving” spots.

We are a based on the East side of Bunaken Island, only a few minutes from your dive dream. Small groups, skilled dive masters, special service for photographer, European PADI instructor.

Enjoy the dream…

• BUNAKEN TIMUR (East Bunaken)

A great dive site right in front of RAJA LAUT, very good for snorkelling too with a beautiful reef with lush coral growth. Is a very long reef covering all the east side of the island between the village of Bunaken and Sachiko’s Point. It can be divided in at least 2 or 3 dive spots.

Sharks, barracudas, groupers, napoleons, eagle rays and a lot of small and colourful reef fish. Few times I saw at the top reef a blue rings octopus hiding between the corals.

Possible to do a night dive in front of our Resort during which is easy to spot different species of crabs (decorator, sponge), bamboo sharks, big nudibranchs, snails, sea snakes, moray eels, green turtles.

• MUKA KAMPUNG (Front of the Village)

Located in front of Bunaken Village. A steep drop-off on which we are often in company with eagle rays, sting rays, tunas, napoleon, fantastic soft corals and nudibranches, crabs, shrimps. Also the right location to observe Mandarin Fish mating in a late afternoon dive.

 

The Dive Resort situated on Bunaken Island the the center of "The Bunaken - Manado Tua National Marine Park"

The Bunaken - Manado Tua National Marine Park geographically located in Indo Pacific region and holds the richest marine diversity on the planet, where the Bunaken island is considered to be one of the top diving destinations.

Bunaken island received some publicity when the marine biologist Dr. Mark Erdmann found a living Coelacanth here, a specie of fish some 60 million years old and have never been seen before.

The waters around Bunaken island are home to dolphins, whales, turtles, sharks, rays, sea snakes, sea cows, barracudas, tunas and the list goes on.

Bunaken Island, Diving Manado, Padi Courses Bunaken

Raja Laut in indonesian language means "The Sea King". In this case we refer to a fish, a special one, indeeed. The Coelacanth were believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period.

There are two different coelacanth species: latimeria chalumnae and latimeria menadoensis.

Latimeria chalumnae was discovered in South Africa in 1938, when Mayore Courtenay Latimer working for East London Museum, found a coelacanth between some fishes that were caught from a fishing boat on the river Chalumna.

Latimeria menadoensis, was discovered more recently, in 1997 in Indonesia, when two tourists, spouses Erdmann, discovered in a market on the island of Manado Tua what seemed a Gombessa fish, a species they called "The Sea King". Then with some research on DNA, was discovered that the species is also different from Latimeria chalumnae and was called Latimeria menadoensis.

The coelacanth is now living in the Indian Ocean, including the Comores and Madascar, South Africa and Indonesia. It 'a big fish and can be up to two meters long and 80 kg in weight. Live on average 60 years, prefers to swim deep and hunt at night. It feeds on eels, stingrays, small sharks and squid. Swimming is particular, as the fins move in pairs, or the two in front, pectoral fins or the rear ones, pelvis.

We decided to call our Resort RAJA LAUT to don't forget the great privilege we enjoy to dive daily in this SPECIAL sea.