Dive in Maluku Islands

The Maluku Islands (also known as the Moluccas, Moluccan Islands, the Spice Islands or simply Maluku) are an archipelago in Indonesia, and part of the larger Maritime Southeast Asia region. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone.

Geographically they are located east of Sulawesi (Celebes), west of New Guinea, and north of Timor. The islands were also historically known as the "Spice Islands" by the Chinese and Europeans, but this term has also been applied to other islands.

Maluku Island

BANDA in the Banda sea

At the far eastern end of this island nation lie some of the world's healthiest and most beautiful coral reefs, inhabited by an incredibly diverse range of marine life.

Because of its remoteness and relatively small population, the Banda Sea has remained a rare example of thriving, unspoiled marine environment, with little evidence of the degradation affecting so many of the world's coral reefs. Scenery is spectacular both above and below the waterline, and there are well-established dive professionals to assure that we experience the best the area has to offer in comfort and safety.

Knowledgeable divers seek out this remote location due to a confluence of currents and nutrients there, producing an unusually diverse and brilliant growth of marine life-even for Indonesia. Fishes large and small can be found on any of the dive sites.

The diving ranges from the shallow lagoon between Banda Neira and Gunung Api to the vertical walls of Hatta Island.

HALMAHERA in North Maluku

These were the original Spice Islands. Until the Dutch planted cloves on Ambon Island, every clove in the world came from the Halmahera islands Ternate and Tidore. This region features unique reef formations, with visibility 20 to 30 m, and water temperature of 27 to 28 degC. Plenty of macro and micro subjects for UW photographers.

Maluku Island