The archipelago is a place of great potential to serve as a tourist attraction, especially diving tourism. Raja Ampat waters according to several sources, is one of the 10 best waters for diving sites around the world. In fact, it can also be recognized as number one for the completeness of the underwater flora and fauna at the time.
Dr. John Veron, coral senior experts from Australia, for example, within a site was revealed, the Raja Ampat Islands located in the westernmost tip of the island of Papua, about 50 miles northwest of Sorong, reef the best areas in Indonesia,. Approximately 450 species of corals can be found during the two weeks study in the area.
Raja Ampat
A team of experts from Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy, and the National Oceanographic Institutions (LON) Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) is a rapid assessment in 2001 and 2002. The result is that they take into account in these waters, there are over 540 species of hard corals (75% of total species in the world), more than 1000 species of reef fish, 700 species of molluscs, and the highest record for gonodactyloid stomatopod crustaceans. This makes 75% of coral species in Raja Ampat world. No place, with a surface with the same number of the coral species.
There are several areas of coral reefs are in very good condition with the percentage of live coral cover to 90%: in the Dampier Strait (the strait between P. and P. smalldam Batanta) Kofiau Islands, Islands and South East Mysol Wayag Islands. Types of coral reefs in Raja Ampat is generally the contours of the reef on the edge of the precipice. But it was also found atoll type and type of burns or Taka. In some places, like in the village Saondarek, when the lowest tides, can stretch without a dive and witness with their own adaptations coral reefs, these reefs is still alive despite the fact that in the open air and sunlight.
Raja Ampat Diving
Unique species that may be encountered in diving is a type of Pigmy seahorses or mini kudalaut, nurse shark and manta ray. There are also four endemic fish king, namely Eviota king, which is a kind of fish gobbie. At Manta Point internally Arborek Dampier straits, you can dive with the Manta Ray was accompanied by several heads of benign and when you dive into Derawan Islands, East Kalimantan. If you dive at Cape Kri of Chicken Reef, you will be surrounded by thousands of fish. Sometimes a combination of tuna, snapper and giant trevallies. But a tense when we are surrounded by a collection of fish, barracuda, although in fact it is relatively harmless (which is dangerous when we see barracuda solitary or alone). Reef sharks are often seen, and with luck see you the turtle is still eating sponge or swim around. In some places like Salawati, and Batanta smalldam seen Dugong or sea cow.
Because the area of many islands and narrow straits, so most of the dives at some point has a tight flow. It also stands for the drift diving, diving as he attended with a rapid flow of the water so clear, but by collecting fish. There are also aircraft sank the Second World War relic that can be found in different places to dive to make a great place for diving as in P. Wreck Wai. And there are many more sites of coral reefs that have never touched. This makes diving in Raja Ampat was more challenging.
Dr. John Veron, coral senior experts from Australia, for example, within a site was revealed, the Raja Ampat Islands located in the westernmost tip of the island of Papua, about 50 miles northwest of Sorong, reef the best areas in Indonesia,. Approximately 450 species of corals can be found during the two weeks study in the area.
Raja Ampat
A team of experts from Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy, and the National Oceanographic Institutions (LON) Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) is a rapid assessment in 2001 and 2002. The result is that they take into account in these waters, there are over 540 species of hard corals (75% of total species in the world), more than 1000 species of reef fish, 700 species of molluscs, and the highest record for gonodactyloid stomatopod crustaceans. This makes 75% of coral species in Raja Ampat world. No place, with a surface with the same number of the coral species.
There are several areas of coral reefs are in very good condition with the percentage of live coral cover to 90%: in the Dampier Strait (the strait between P. and P. smalldam Batanta) Kofiau Islands, Islands and South East Mysol Wayag Islands. Types of coral reefs in Raja Ampat is generally the contours of the reef on the edge of the precipice. But it was also found atoll type and type of burns or Taka. In some places, like in the village Saondarek, when the lowest tides, can stretch without a dive and witness with their own adaptations coral reefs, these reefs is still alive despite the fact that in the open air and sunlight.
Raja Ampat Diving
Unique species that may be encountered in diving is a type of Pigmy seahorses or mini kudalaut, nurse shark and manta ray. There are also four endemic fish king, namely Eviota king, which is a kind of fish gobbie. At Manta Point internally Arborek Dampier straits, you can dive with the Manta Ray was accompanied by several heads of benign and when you dive into Derawan Islands, East Kalimantan. If you dive at Cape Kri of Chicken Reef, you will be surrounded by thousands of fish. Sometimes a combination of tuna, snapper and giant trevallies. But a tense when we are surrounded by a collection of fish, barracuda, although in fact it is relatively harmless (which is dangerous when we see barracuda solitary or alone). Reef sharks are often seen, and with luck see you the turtle is still eating sponge or swim around. In some places like Salawati, and Batanta smalldam seen Dugong or sea cow.
Because the area of many islands and narrow straits, so most of the dives at some point has a tight flow. It also stands for the drift diving, diving as he attended with a rapid flow of the water so clear, but by collecting fish. There are also aircraft sank the Second World War relic that can be found in different places to dive to make a great place for diving as in P. Wreck Wai. And there are many more sites of coral reefs that have never touched. This makes diving in Raja Ampat was more challenging.
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