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.