Sea Safari 8

8 Days 7 Nights North Raja Ampat

• Day 1: Sorong.
• Arrive in Sorong at the newly built Dominique Edward Osok airport. Our representative will be waiting outside the arrival hall and ready to escort you to the ship for immediate boarding. Our Safety Briefing, Safety DVD, Crew Introduction, Necessary Dive Paperwork, Cabin allocation and ship orientation will take place before departing Sorong Harbour. During the journey to our first dive site take this opportunity to familiarize yourselves with the vessel and make yourself comfortable.
• Meals : Lunch, Dinner
• Dive: Check Dive at Black Rock or Yum Slope
• Day 2: Penemu Island
• Melissas Garden, Barracuda Reef, Galaxy, Anita's Garden. All of these dive sites offer world-class diving, fantastic corals and a huge amount of fish. Because the substrate at Melissas Garden is exceedingly delicate, absolute attention to good buoyancy is required. Also this is a good chance to trek to one of the most famous viewpoints in the region.
• Meals : Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
• Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive + trekking.
• Day 3: Yanggefo Island
• Myhem, Citrus Ridge, Gam Ridge, and Mangroves. This area offers some truly unique environments to dive in. The vibrant orange soft corals of Citrus Ridge provide a stunning backdrop to this site, home to barracudas, bumphead parrotfish and sea snakes are common here. Myhem offers schools of batfish, surgeonfish and snappers with the occasional Wobbegong sleeping under the coral heads. Gam Ridge is a good place to spot Eagle and Mobula rays. The Mangroves offer some stunning photo opportunities, diving late in the day around 4 pm when the sun is low in the sky gives some stunning shafts of light in the mangrove shallows.
• Meals : Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
• Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive
• Day 4: Airborek Island
• Manta Sandy, Manta Ridge, Airborek Island & Jetty. Manta Sandy and Manta Ridge are two of the most reliable Manta congregation spots in the Dampier Strait. Here you can look at the majestic animals somersaulting through the water while they are cleaned by several species of Wrasse and even Butterflyfish. The Jetty at Airborek offers unique photo opportunities of the long wooden pillars covered with soft corals and sea fans, if you're lucky the local kids will be at play, jumping in the water eager to get on your photo reel. Airborek Jetty offers one of the best night dives in Raja Ampat where Blue Ring Octopus, Harlequin Shrimp and Wobbegong are often seen.
• Meals : Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
• Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive
• Day 5: Dampier Strait
• Mikes Point, Sardine Reef, Mioskon and Friwinbondan. Before dive activities begin we have an early rise, we go in search of the Red Bird of Paradise at Sawingkrai Village on Gam. We then continue to Mikes Point. Schooling sweetlips, patroling blacktip reef sharks and interesting macro subjects such as small octopus and shrimp thrive in these craggy coral niches. Sardine Reef. Actually, sardines are not found at this site but you wont miss them. Fusiliers, Surgeonfish, Trevally, Rainbow Runners, Sweetlips and Bannerfish crowd the open water and swarm over a reef decorated with sea fans. Mioskon Reef is home to hundreds of lined snappers that usually cover the slope, schools of glassfish hide in coral bommies and Wobbegongs are very common here. Friwinbondan offers a good night dive with Nudibranches, many shrimps and if you're lucky a Walking Shark (Epaulette shark)
• Meals : Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
• Dive: 3 day dives + 1 night dive + trekking
• Day 6: The Passage
• The Passage, Kabui Bay One of Raja Ampats most celebrated dives, The Passage is a winding waterway that separates Gam from Waigeo. This narrow river-like saltwater channel runs primarily east to west, stretching from kabui bay to open ocean. Caves full of bats and other caves with collapsed roofs allowing the sunbeams to shine through thus making stunning photos. The easy shallow dives in the eddys provide hiding places for Archerfish, Halfbeaks. Picturesque Dragonettes and a plethora of Nudibranches. It's easy to make 4 very different dives in this area.
• Dive : 3 day dives + 1 night dive
• Day 7: Kri island
• Cape Kri, Cape Mansuar, Located in the Dampier Strait on Mansuar & Kri Islands. This site is one of the top dives in Raja. Cape Kri is recorded as having the most amount of fish species counted on a single dive by renown ichthyologist Dr. Gerald Allen. Cape Mansuar is not far behind with large schools of barracuda, surgeonfish, bumphead parrotfish and many friendly turtles. A perfect way to end your trip.
• Meals : Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
• Dive: 2-morning dives
• Day 8: Sorong
• After breakfast, prepare for disembarkation. Be ready to leave the boat and you will be transferred to Sorong Airport. Your diving journey has ended and we shall look forward to welcoming you onboard again.
• Meals: Breakfast
• Dive: no dive