Gili Air DIVE SITES
Nemo city
- Center of interest: Gentle sandy slope partially covered with small rocks seagrass , perfectly fits beginner but especially experienced divers and photographers looking after rare critters such as Ghost Pipefish, Seahorses, cockatoo waspfishes, weird Nudis as Melibe or Thecacera but also snake eels, stargazers and frogfishes.
- Type: Muck, Shore dive
- Location: South-east
- Depth: from 3 to 22 meters
- Level: Beginners to experienced - Photographers - Excellent for night diving
- Current: none to 1
- Visibility: Very good to average
- Aquatic Life: Seahorses, Pipefishes, double ended pipefishes, frogfishes, nudibranches, snake eels, flounder, sole, dragonets, stargazer, cuttlefish, octopus, squids, bobtail squids, mimic octopus, spanish dancer,harlequin and seagrass ghost pipefish, turtles, indian walkman and much more…
- Frog Fish Point
- Center of interest: One of the most famous site around the three gills for the encounters with the rare and the special. Frogfish Point is composed of a beautiful Coral Garden in the shallows hosting all kind of colorful reef fishes, and also features a set of very alive seamounts literally covered with coral and reef creatures. Occasionally attracts pelagic hunters… Excellent for macro lovers looking for long dives...
- Type: Coral Gardens, Shallow sea pinnacles.
- Location: North-East
- Depth: from 3 to 26 metres
- Level: Beginners to experienced - Photographers - Excellent for night diving
- Current: none to 4
- Visibility: Very good to average
- Aquatic Life: frogfishes, nudibranches, cuttlefish, seagrass ghost pipefish, turtles, indian walkman, scorpion fish, leaf fish, ribbon eel morays, giant morays, blue spotted stingrays….
Hans reef
- Center of interest: Situated slightly more south than Frog Fish Point, this dive site is generally dived as a drift, beautiful coral gardens, Gill Air's Biorock artificial reef.
- Type: Coral Garden, Small drop-off, Artificial Reef, Drift
- Location: East
- Depth: from 3 to 22 metres
- Level: Beginners to experienced -
- Current: 1 to 5
- Visibility: Very good to average
- Aquatic Life: Sea snakes, Leopard Moray, Ribbon Eel, Lion fish, Leaf fish, Turtles, Dogtooth tuna, Barracuda, Cuttle fish, Lots of reef fishes, Frogfishes, Cleaner shrimps, orang utang crabs.
- Center of interest: Probably the nicest drop-off in the 3 Gilis. Covered in soft corals and whips, it features 3 crypts where groups of sweetlips protects from the current. Pretty good macro here too, with seagrass ghostpipefishes, wall of glassfishes, pigmy seahorse and sometimes white tip reef shark and eagle rays.
- Type: Wall, Drift
- Location: South-West
- Depth: from 3 to 30 metres
- Level: Experienced - Photographers -
- Current: 2 to 5
- Visibility: Good to average
- Aquatic Life: Pigmy Seahorse, Devil Scorpion fish, Puffer, Sweetlips, Turtles, Xeno Crab, Sea snake, White tip reef shark.
Air Slope
- Center of interest: Gentle slope covered with soft corals and bummies. A turtle's heaven and an easy drift dive for beginner often dive in combination with Air Wall.
- Type: Slope, Bummies, Drift
- Location: South-east
- Depth: from 3 to 26 metres
- Level: Beginners to experienced
- Current: none to 1
- Visibility: Good to average
- Aquatic Life: Turtles, Angel Fish, Lion Fish, Nudibranch, Sea Snakes, Batfish, Snappers...
Harbour
- Center of interest: Very seldomly dived location, where the quality of hard coral is amazing. One small sea mount full a reef fishes and also a seagrass area where we get to spot interesting macro critters as ghostpipefishes and frogfishes.
- Type: Coral and Muck
- Location: South
- Depth: from 3 to 18 metres
- Level: Beginners to experienced - Photographers - Excellent for night diving
- Current: none
- Visibility: Good to average
- Aquatic Life: Ghost pipefish, Batfish, Snappers, Sweetlips, Hard coral and seagrass
- Center of interest: Gentle sandy slope covered with huge sponges. Small artificial reef and shallow drop off. Very colorful for night dive.
- Type: Slope / Drop Off - Drift
- Location: South-east
- Depth: from 3 to 17 metres
- Level: Beginners to experienced - Excellent for night diving
- Current: none to 1
- Visibility: Very good to average
- Aquatic Life: Lobster, octopus, giant Moray, scorpionfish, nudibranch lots of tropical fishes.
