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Andrew Miner, who has been based in Indonesia for over 10 years and operated his own cruise ship Irian Jaya Sakti, now leads the Misool dive team. They have meanwhile explored over 60 dive sites within a one-hour boat ride of the resort, and there are many more waiting to be discovered. 20 world-class dive sites are located within a 10 minute ride from the resort. Some of the more famous dive sites (all within the 425 sq km Marine Protected Area established in 2006) include Fiabacet, Boo, Magic Mountain, Yilliet, and Gorgonian Passage.
Dive Center and Service
Misool Eco Resort's Dive Centre is located in the North Bay, built on stilts over the water. The Dive Centre is spacious and airy, with dedicated wet and dry areas to suit professional videographers, photographers, and recreational divers alike.
The wet room is furnished with plenty of camera tables and work stations. The kitting up platform is quite roomy. Within the dry area, there are comfortable lounge chairs and a monitor for viewing the day?s images. The sunny veranda is perfect for drying out between dives and enjoying the topside views.
Typically, 2-3 boat dives are offered daily with unlimited and unguided house reef diving, and the thorough dive briefings emphasise individuality and protection of the environment. Dives are conducted in small groups, and gloves are not permitted. Due to their extremely remote location, the dive profiles are very conservative with a maximum depth of 30 metres (100ft).
Dive area
Misool Eco Resort offers all the comforts of a land-based holiday resort, the variety and quality of diving is comparable with live aboard diving, The diversity of Raja Ampat's underwater topography is simply astounding, abounding in all manner of reef systems with walls, pinnacles, caves, swim throughs, sea mounts and lagoons.
Visibility is generally 25+ meters (80+ft), with temperatures around 26-28 degrees Celsius (78-82 degrees Fahrenheit). For most divers a 3mm wetsuit is sufficient.
Raja Ampat is home to the world's richest reefs and dive sites. At the heart of the Coral Triangle, the region sprawls over 180,000 square kilometers and boasts the majority of the world's reef-building corals. In fact, in an area the size of two football fields, scientists discovered more than six times as many coral species as live in the entire Caribbean Sea. There are over 700 species of mollusks and 1,200 species of fish. Counted among those is the newly discovered 'walking' epaulette shark, commonly seen on night dives on the Misool house reef.
