Scuba diving with Aqua Marine Diving - Bali in Indonesia

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Bali Dive Packages

Indonesia’s diving is among the best in the world.

Diving in Bali is an easy and inexpensive way to see the best of Indonesia. Often overlooked by divers headed elsewhere in Indonesia, Bali SCUBA diving is special in its own right. Either as an add-on to an Indonesia diving trip or as a complete and inexpensive dive vacation with the added benefits of Bali’s unique culture and shopping for the creations of Bali’s many artists.

Bali Dive Packages

Indonesia’s diving is among the best in the world.

Dive Tulamben Bay for the 120m USAT Liberty Wreck Dive and superb macro underwater photography. Visit Secret Bay for weird muck diving critters. Plan to dive Nusa Penida for Mola Mola (in season), sharks and Manta rays. Or combine all these into a customised Bali Diving Safari (Bali Dive Package with accommodation).

AquaMarine Diving – Bali operates One-Day and Multi-Day Diving Safaris (Dive Packages) throughout our island. Custom dive trips are our speciality.

Why Choose to Dive with AquaMarine?

Attention to detail is a hallmark of the AquaMarine experience. From your initial planning together with our Bali office Dive Travel Professionals to your fun diving day with our PADI Certified Divemasters and Instructors, you receive professional, friendly, expert service.

The level to which Aqua Marin Diving Bali (AMD-B) customises trips is absolutely unique in Bali. The focus at AquaMarine is to provide both high quality service and the best possible diving for guests, offering programmes to suit each diver’s interests, experience and preferences. You will find suggested itineraries on our website to be used as a starting point for your holiday plans.

Our divemasters are professionals, all Indonesian, who chose diving as a career. Over 70% are PADI instructors. Many have worked for us for over 10 years and often train dive guides for other companies. Expect your dive package holiday, or day of diving, to be well-organised and safe, and well as beautiful and fun!

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Training Courses

Training Courses PADI - Discover Scuba Diving

Discover Scuba Diver

Duration

1 days

Price per person

USD $ 135

The PADI Scuba Diver Course is a great course option if you want to become a certified diver but don't feel ready to take a full dive course.

Why the PADI scuba diver course?

The PADI Scuba Diver Course is a great course option if you want to become a certified diver but don't feel ready to take a full dive course.

Why the PADI scuba diver course?

The PADI scuba diver course requires less time to complete than the full PADI Open Water Course. This scuba course is an ideal certification for those who want to become certified on vacation yet don't want to spend their whole holiday in a classroom. The minimum age to start the PADI scuba diver course is 15.

What you will learn during the PADI scuba diver course?

During the PADI Scuba Diver Course, you will learn the basics of scuba diving. Through three pool training sessions and two open water dives (ocean dives) as well as some theory that can be completed online before you travel.

Once qualified, you can continue to polish your scuba diving skills by taking the PADI Open Water Course, which will further your development.

Certified as a PADI scuba diver, now what?

Once you have obtained the PADI Scuba Diver certification you are eligible to dive up to 12 metres (40 feet) deep under the guidance of a Dive Master or Instructor. You can also participate in a variety of other dive activities providing you are supervised correctly.

If you think the PADI Scuba Diver Course is for you, do not wait any longer - book your course today.

Included in the training

Required course materials

Training Courses PADI - Open Water Diver

Open Water Diver

Duration

3 days

Price per person

USD $ 475

The PADI Open Water Diver course is the most popular dive course in the whole world. It is the first full dive certification that PADI offer and it is often the first dive course that most people choose to take.

The PADI open water diver course is split up into three parts:

Theory - During this part of the course you will learn about the basics of scuba diving including how to set up your equipment and how to stay safe underwater. The theory is usually done in a classroom with your dive instructor. You will be required to complete knowledge reviews, and you will need to pass a multiple choice exam.
Confined Water Sessions - These usually takes place in the swimming pool and will give you the chance to get used to your dive equipment and you will learn the basic scuba skills that are needed to enter the underwater world.
Open Water Dives - In order to pass the PADI Open Water Diver course you will need to complete four open water dives which usually take place in the ocean. Depending on your location they may take place in a lake or quarry. You will be expected to show that you understand the basic dive skills during your open water dives.

Certified as a PADI Open water diver, now what?

In order to take part in the PADI Open Water Course, you need to be at least 15 years old. If you are between 10 and 15, you can instead take the PADI Junior Open Water Diver Course.

Once you have completed the PADI Open Water Diver Course, you will be eligible to dive to a depth of up to 18 meters (60 feet) deep.

If you want to become a fully certified scuba diver, the PADI Open Water Course is for you - book your course today.

Included in the training

Required course materials, Certification Fees, Dive equipment included

Training Courses PADI - Advanced Open Water Diver

Advanced Open Water Diver

Duration

2 days

Price per person

USD $ 395

The PADI Advanced Open Water Course is the next main scuba course after the Open Water course. Most divers love this course as it is fun and interesting and involves no exam work.

If you opt to take the Advanced Open Water Diver Course, you will branch out into five scuba specialities. Two of these are mandatory and are deep diving and underwater navigation. The other three specialities are completely up to you.

The PADI Advanced Open Water Course is the next main scuba course after the Open Water course. Most divers love this course as it is fun and interesting and involves no exam work.

Your options include:

Wreck Diving
Underwater Photography
Underwater Videography
Night Diving
Diving with Underwater Scooters
Aware Fish ID
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Drift Diving
Boat Diving

What you will learn during the PADI scuba diver course?

The main goal of the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is to increase your scuba knowledge and your confidence under the water.

You will learn more about the psychological effects of deep diving and how to stay safe when you descend below 18 meters.

You will also learn about how to navigate underwater correctly. Each speciality that you choose will involve one dive which can later be put towards the individual speciality courses if you wish.

Who can start the PADI advanced open water diver course?

If you think, this scuba course sounds like fun you will need to be a certified PADI Open Water Diver (or the equivalent from a different dive school) and be 15 years or older.

If you are between 12 and 15, you can take the PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Course which is very similar, but has limited choices when it comes to your specialities.

What are you waiting for? Book your course today!

Included in the training

Required course materials, Certification Fees, Dive equipment included

Training Courses PADI - Rescue Diver

Rescue Diver

Duration

3 days

Price per person

USD $ 385

The PADI Rescue Diver course is one of the most challenging and rewarding courses PADI offers. This course will build upon all of the experience you have already gained and help you not only know how to prevent problems but manage them as well if they were to occur.

Most divers that have gone through the PADI Rescue Diver course find it to be not only challenging but extremely rewarding – many say it is the best course they have ever taken!

What you will learn during the PADI rescue diver course?

The PADI Rescue Diver course will teach you all the things you will need to know in order to have a safe and fun time diving such as:

Self-rescue
Rescuing panicked divers
Rescuing an unresponsive diver
Managing and recognizing stress in other divers
Operating emergency equipment

Who can start the PADI rescue diver course?

In order to take the PADI rescue diver course, you must be at least 12 years old and already have the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification, and be trained and current in first aid and CPR within the previous two years.

If you want to become a diver that has a strong ability to handle any scuba diving emergencies, then you should enroll today!

Included in the training

Required course materials, Certification Fees, Dive equipment included

Guided tours

Guided tours PADI - Open Water Diver

Tulamben Bay (two guided shore dives)

Duration

1 days

Price per person

USD $ 105

Tulamben Bay: A Dive Site for Everyone

Tulamben has become Bali’s most famous diving area and therefore where you are most likely to meet internationally recognised underwater photographers and writers.

Tulamben Bay: A Dive Site for Everyone

Tulamben has become Bali’s most famous diving area and therefore where you are most likely to meet internationally recognised underwater photographers and writers.

Tulamben Bay, like the rest of Bali, is situated in the world’s richest marine biogeographic zone: The Indo-Pacific. Being on the north east coast, the bay receives very plankton-rich waters from the major ocean current that moves from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean. This, coupled with the fact that the three main dive sites provide totally different physical environments, means that Tulamben contains a stunningly diverse underwater ecosystem.

Popular Tulamben Bay Dive Sites

These include:

The USAT Liberty Wreck
The Coral Garden or house reef
The Drop-Off/Wall dive

1) USAT Liberty Shipwreck

Possibly the world’s easiest wreck dive and definitely Bali’s most popular dive site.

History of the USAT Liberty

Built circa WWI, this 120m cargo ship was equipped with guns for WWII. The Liberty was torpedoed by the Japanese off the coast of Lombok. Although attempts were made to tow the ship to north Bali, it was taking on too much water and therefore was semi-beached at Tulamben.

During the last eruption of Mt Agung, Bali’s highest and most sacred mountain, the earth tremours roched the boat down the beach and into the sea.

Location and Direction of the Liberty Wreck

The USAT Liberty Shipwreck lies a mere 30m offshore, and almost parallel to the beach, making it suitable for all levels of certification and experience. The shallowest part of the wreck where it touches the sand slope is at 5-10m while average depth along the middle is 16-20m.

The lower edge of the wreck, the furthest down the slope, is 20-28m at high tide. The wreck is pretty broken up, no penetration possible. But you can still see the guns, toilets, boilers, anchor chain, etc. A truly lovely dive site!

You can also snorkel on the wreck as the highest point of the stern is only 3m below the surface.

What you will see diving the Liberty Wreck Dive

Big Eyed Trevally, Liberty Wreck, Tulamben, Bali. These trevally (jacks) are resident on the wreck.

Popular with Underwater Photographers

The USAT Liberty Shipwreck is very popular with underwater photographers/videographers as it is totally encrusted in anemones, gorgonian fans, hard and soft corals.

In addition the black sand provides an excellent colour contrast for the incredible variety of marinelife, which includes a school of 100s of Big-eyed trevallys (length 30cm/12in) and over 400 other species of fish.

As most of the fish are resident, they are quite used to scuba divers – from the goatfish and wrasse that nibble around your feet and fins during entry/exit, to the unicornfish and surgeonfish that accompany you down the slope towards the Wreck.

Each area of the Liberty Shipwreck offers something different to see.

Diving on, in and around the Liberty Shipwreck, you are quite likely to see a high percentage of the marinelife shown in any Indo-Pacific Reef Guide book. That is what keeps divers coming back time and time again.

The possibilities for underwater macro-photography on Tulamben Bay’s USAT Liberty Shipwreck are endless – please try to schedule several days (and nights) here as there is a lot to shoot and a huge area to cover.

Amazing Variety of Fish Life

You may see minute anglerfish, neon nudibranchs, various ghostpipefish, and shrimp/goby sets sd you swim past areas of Garden eels and multi-coloured clouds of anthias and damsels. Encounter the resident Great barracuda, Giant groupers, batfish, and schools of sweetlips, batfish, fusiliers, butterflyfish.

The variety is amazing!

Then there are the invertebrates, the hard and soft corals, black corals, sponges with crinoids, sea fans, tunicates. The list goes on.

2) Coral Garden Dive Site

Running for approximately 150m along the middle section of Tulamben beach is a shallow reef. The Coral Garden depths are from 3 to 8-12m. This makes it a great site for extended Night Dives and snorkelling.

The reef mainly consists of table corals and anemones, as well as sponges and soft corals.

The fish life, as with the Drop-Off and the USAT Liberty Shipwreck, is very diverse with a surprising number of Blue ribbon eels (the juveniles of which are black), cuttlefish and octopus.

Plenty of Marine Life

There is wide variety of shrimps including Peacock mantis shrimps. You may also find frogfish, ghostpipefish, nudibranch and anemonefish.

Black-tip reef sharks patrol up and down, and you may well see Giant groupers and the school of Bumphead parrotfish too.

In fact, the Coral Garden actually extends much deeper than 12m. If you carry on down the sand slope, you’ll find barrel sponges with many surprises. You may find juvenile Emperor Angelfish, Two-spot lionfish, maybe a school of juvenile catfish; cleaning stations with shrimp and wrasse, or a shoal of razorfish swaying in their hiding place.

If you follow the slope towards the Drop-Off, you’ll come to Tulamben’s River Bed. Although not an area for divers looking for a profusion of marinelife, it is often the best place in Tulamben Bay to find unexpected specimens!

3) The Drop Off/Wall Dive Site

Tulamben Bay’s Drop-Off/Wall is an old lava flow from Mount Agung. It is at the opposite end of the bay, about a 15mins slow walk, from the USAT Liberty Shipwreck.

The dive starts on a steep sand slope with nudibranchs, flounders, and goby and shrimp sets.

At 12m are sponges with many varieties of shrimp, and there are many crinoids, often with attendant ghost pipefish.

Continuing round to the right, the slope develops into a reef with very impressive topography, becoming a vertical wall, from 15m to below 60m, which then reverts to a steep slope.

Visibility in this area is best in the morning, usually 15-20m, due to the amount of plankton in the water. Due to the location it is rare that there is a current, even a mild one.

Although there is some silt from run-off after heavy rainfall, the wall has profuse sponges, corals, black coral bushes, and gorgonian fans. One of the fans at 30m is over 2m in diameter. We often come here for the Deep Dive on the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course.

What You Will See at Tulamben Bay’s Drop Off/Wall Dive Sites

Bigger Fish You May See

The fish life is similar to that found on the Wreck but, being a much larger area, is less dense. However, more often than on the USAT Liberty Shipwreck, you will see White-tip reef sharks, Napoleon wrasse, some big filefish (including Scrawled), and large moray eels.

There have been sightings of Whale sharks as shallow as 9m, with Manta rays, Mola-Mola and Dogtooth tuna as frequent visitors.

Occasionally, when the school of Big-eyed trevallys on the shipwreck becomes particularly large, you’ll find them schooling at the Wall.

Smaller Fish & Critters

Look for Longnose hawkfish on the gorgonian fans, with Sharp-nosed puffers hiding nearby.

Amongst the rocks and corals you will see octopus, Reef and Leaf scorpionfish, frogfish, Hermit and Porcelain crabs, and shrimps.

Lionfish

For those staying overnight, late afternoon is the best time to see the wide variety of lionfish that live here.

The Wall Dive’s ‘Aquarium Section’

The back reef at the top of the Wall, averaging 5m, contains an excellent ‘aquarium section’. There you can see cuttlefish, octopus, Boxer crabs and many other unexpected treasures. This enables you to finish your dive at around 5m for pretty much as long as you want to stay underwater. This is, of course, also very popular with snorkellers.

Included in the tour

Dive Guide, Skipper, Boat transport

Guided tours PADI - Open Water Diver

Nusa Penida and Manta Ray Diving

Duration

1 days

Price per person

USD $ 155

Nusa Penida & Lembongan Diving

Nusa Penida is the largest (17km long) of 3 islands; the others being Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Ceningan that lie the other side of the Bandung Strait from Bali’s east coast.

Nusa Penida & Lembongan Diving

Nusa Penida is the largest (17km long) of 3 islands; the others being Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Ceningan that lie the other side of the Bandung Strait from Bali’s east coast.

The water here is fairly cold, due to a cold upwelling from a deep ocean through south of Bali. But it is often startlingly clear, with gorgeous corals and prolific fish and some turtles, Grey reef and Silver-tip sharks. In Julyto mid-November, Mola-Mola, the weird and wonderful Ocean sunfish, can be seen here.

Although Manta rays can be seen year-round along most of Nusa Penida’s south west coast, there are two main ‘Manta Points’: Manta Point I (aka Old) and Manta Point II (aka New). Apologies for the lack of imagination in naming them!

Manta Point I

This area of coastline has dramatic limestone cliffs that descend straight into the ocean. On occasion the currents prevent even AMD-B’s powerful boats from reaching the divesite.

In addition, although we do not encounter currents here, the swell can make entry impossible. There’s a sandy bottom at 12-18m, however the Cleaning Station (a large rock) which is the focus of most dives here, is only 5m below the surface.

“I personally prefer ‘searching’ around the massive boulders that are found deeper at the site, however you’ve got a higher percentage chance of seeing Mantas if you go to the cleaning station”.

Manta Point II

Not quite as far from the other dive sites as Manta Point I, however if the Mantas aren’t here (unless other pelagics are around), there’s not much else to see other than sea, sand and your dive buddies. In AquaMarine’s experience, we see more Mantas here although they tend to be smaller.

Because the site is shallow, with less surge, it’s often possible to snorkel here.

At both sites you may also see other pelagics such as Nurse sharks, big tuna and Tiger mackerel. In sheltered areas you can see lionfish, octopus and cuttlefish; some big triggerfish including Clown triggerfish, and pufferfish.

Included in the tour

Dive Guide, Skipper, Boat transport

Scuba diving with Aqua Marine Diving - Bali in Indonesia

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Training Courses

Discover Scuba Diver

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Open Water Diver

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Advanced Open Water Diver

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Rescue Diver

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Guided tours

Tulamben Bay (two guided shore dives)

Included in the tour

Nusa Penida and Manta Ray Diving

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