Extra Divers Paperu
The dive shop at Cape Paperu, Extra Divers, is a full service PADI diving facility, lead by the owner’s of the resort. The dive shop is located directly on the beach, offering everything from house reef diving to daily boat diving and PADI, CMAS and IANTD dive courses.
Dive Centre & Service
Diving at the house reef is available day and night and is either offered with a dive guide. Three dive boats are available from the resort. One dive boat accommodates up to 8 divers, the second dive boat carries up to 10 divers and the newest dive boat carries 12 divers. There is also a small tender for up to 4 passengers. All dive boats carry beach towels, drinking water, hot tea, cake and fruit.
Day boat trips are offered with 2-3 dives per day. Full day boat trips include 3 dives and lunch. 12L aluminium tanks with INT/DIN valves are used. Dive equipment rental is available (please advise in advance). Nitrox is available at extra cost.
The staff is fully trained in case of an emergency. An emergency kit complete with oxygen system is carried on the dive boats and is also available at the dive shop. Safety equipment on each boat consists of life jackets, DAN Oxygen and First Aid box. The nearest decompression chamber is available in Ambon.
Dive area
The interesting and versatile dive sites around the islands of Saparua, Molana, Nusa Laut, Haruku and Ambon belong to some of the world’s best. They offer stunning coral gardens, steep reef walls and a huge variety of colourful tropical marine life.
At some dive sites of the islands of Molana and Nusa Laut you can find steep reef walls covered in soft corals, sea fans, forests of table coral, tender fire corals and huge sponges. There are plenty of caves and overhanging walls to be dived. Sea snakes as well as sea turtles, stingrays, amberjacks, batfish, barracudas, moray eels and reef sharks are quite common here. Some of these reefs in this area also encounter the occasional mantas, dolphins, humpback and minke whales.
The resort’s own house reef is over 2 km (1 ½ mile) long and has a depth range from 4 to 12 m (12 – 40 feet). It offers plenty of table coral densely populated with a variety of marine life, such as red mullets, grunts, fusiliers and reef groupers in large shoals. It is beautiful to dive the house reef at night time, when crabs, shrimp and sleeping parrotfish can be seen in their nests. Not forgetting the huge variety of nudibranchs and flatworms. During night time stingrays, starfish, anvalve and octopus hunt their prey.
Seasons
The best time is from October until end of May, middle of June, during the dry season. Visibility is then outstanding from 20-50m (65-165ft). Air temperature 24-31C (75-88F); Water temperature 28-30C (82-86F). Wet season is in July and August, which is when the resort is also closed.
