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Map & photos courtesy of Wakatobi Dive Resort

WAKATOBI

WAKATOBI HOUSE REEF
0-120 ft
This is one of the best house reefs in the world! The reef starts right off the beach and drops off about 80 yards from shore, presenting you with a colorful tableau of soft corals, gorgonians, tunicates, whips, and sponges. Look for frogfish, stonefish, blue ring octopus, morays, blue spotted stingrays, ghost pipefish, shrimp, gobies, juvenile reef fish, giant clams, turtles, and a resident school of jacks.

TELUK MAYA
0-180 ft
This diverse dive site is concentrated around a shallow, gently sloping coral garden leading to an overhang. The main attractions are cuttlefish, ghost pipefish, pygymy seahorses, razor and rockmover wrasses, frogfish, pegasus seamoths, and a school of resident batfish.

Photo by Mark Snyder

THE ZOO
0-90 ft
This patch reef is named for the concentration of unusual critters that can be found here. Look for macro life such as frogfish, ghost pipefish, mantis shrimp, leaf fish, squat lobster, pygmy seahorses, and mushroom pipefish. Dusk brings out the mating mandarin fish, while nocturnal species such as cuttlefish, flatworms, lionfish, squid, octopus, and a variety of shrimps and crabs prefer the cover of night.

TRAILBLAZER
18-150 ft
A coral-covered ridge is home to numerous frogfish while the fringing reef hides pygmy seahorses, nudibranchs, flatworms, and a variety of shrimp.

MAGNIFICA
0-240 ft
This steep slope is overflowing with beautiful corals just waiting to be explored. Just a few of the sightings you'll enjoy are schools of jack and snapper, barracudas, sweetlips, cuttlefish, and anthias. This is a very versatile site. The reef top is a great spot for snorkelers, while trimix rebreather divers are able to explore life at greater depths.

Photo by Mark Snyder

ROMA
0-75 ft
This coral covered pinnacle is like a colorful garden, ripe with life! Large schools of fusiliers, butterflyfish, sergeant majors, snapper, red tooth triggerfish, anemones and clownfish, banded sea snakes, ribbon eels, leaf scorpionfish, rockmover wrasses, spindle cowries, winged pipefish, and carpet anemone shrimps all put in an appearance.

Photo by Jett Britnell