Dive Senggigi Beach

Scuba dive in Lombok offer an enticing encounter you absolutely want to treasure throughout your lifetime. The spectacular manta and eagle rays, reefs as well as turtles swim along with you throughout the lavish glowing blue waters and for some time you continue being lost in nature’s resources, far stripped away from the tedious anxieties of daily life.

Senggigi is a wonderful destination to loosen up; it features a few white sandy beaches as well as harmless swimming spots. The place within central Senggigi offers good waves perfect for surfers. This place features a vivid reef which offers refuge to a few number of marine life as well as superbly shaped and causes it to be a superb spot to snorkel.

During the dry time of year, there is an intriguing number of boats anchor within the inlet. The area of Senggigi disperses alongside approximately 10 km. of coastal highway. This highway continues to the north of Bangsal, the main harbor of Gili Islands.

There are a couple of dive sites around Senggigi beach on the east coast of Lombok. At Nipah slope there is a drop off down to 50 meters or so with good coral coverage around the 25 meter point.

The Malimbu dive sites have coral outcrops and sandy patches along with a series of caves that can be dived in the right conditions. Alang wall is a coral encrusted slope down to 35 meters. Marine life at Senggigi is good with all the usual reef visitors including turtles and rays.

Depths : 10 – 50m
Viz : 5 – 30m
Currents : Occasional
Get there : Boat 15 minutes.
Best months : Apr to Oct

Senggigi and beyond dive sites
Senggigi Dive is a spectacular slope reaching down to 60m. Between 10m and 25m, there is an array of wonderful coral. A lot of different reef fishes and with a bit of luck you can see turtles and white tip reef sharks. Hidden between the coral many different kinds of shrimp and crab can be found.

Nipah Slope
A spectacular slope reaching down to 60m. Between 10m and 25m, there is an array of wonderful corals. A lot of different reef fishes and with a bit of luck you can see turtles and white tip reef sharks. Hidden between the corals many different kinds of shrimp and crab can be found.

Malimbu Cave
A slope going down from 10m to 15m with big sandy patches and rocks covered in corals. Here you can find a lot of sting rays, a big amount of reef fishes and often turtles. In the shallower part are caves that can only be dived when conditions are calm. But be careful, we’ve heard a dragon lives there…

Malimbu Slope
A long, stretched slope that goes down to 30m. The bottom is sandy with a lot of little coral reefs. Sharks, blue spotted rays, eagle rays, barracudas, leaf fish – there’s just so much to see.

Shark Point
A big plateau that starts at 10m and goes down to 30m or 40m. Most of the time, you can see sharks, turtles and a big variety of reef fish. On the north side, big gorgonians and sponges can be found.

Alang-Alang Wall
A wall that begins at 16m and reaches down to 35m. Down there, after a small plateau begins another wall that goes down to 60m. Both of them are over grown with wonderful corals. You have sharks, turtles and a huge variety of reef fish. It’s a perfect spot for night dives.

Soft Coral Garden
A chain of small pinnacles beginning in a depth of around 25m. All pinnacles are covered completely with soft coral. It is normally more a spot for small fishes and coral, but even here we have encountered manta rays.

Boulder City Starting
At a vertical wall you descend to about 30 meters. There are a lot of big rocks forming hundreds of swim-troughs. Sharks, napoleons and many, many sweet lips and angelfishes have been seen here.