There are about 17 dive sites around Gili Islands, most of them are well suited for all levels, a few of them requires advanced diving certificate.
Shark Point: All Levels
Location: North of Gili Trawangan
Reef sharks are found basking in the canyons, cuttlefish, stingrays, tons of turtles in the shallows, and every full moon it is a favourite hang out for a school of huge bumphead parrot fish. Large rays sometimes pass by as well as schooling trevally.
Manta Point: All Levels
Location: South of Gili Trawangan
There is rarely any current here, an excellent site to get close up with reef sharks, sting rays, cuttlefish, octopus and in season a passing manta!!
Halik: All Levels
Location: North of Gili Trawangan
A fine site to multi level dive, the selection of soft coral in the deeper section gives way to hard corals as you ascend and in the shallows there are always several turtles totally unfazed by the presence of divers.
Deep Turbos: Advanced Certification
Location: East of Gili Trawangan
You’ll find a good variety of corals and some huge sea fans. Thousands of garden eels cover the sandy bottom and barracuda, leopard sharks and giant rays can also be seen here.
Hann’s Reef: All Level
Location: East of Gili Trawangan
Frog fish, leaf scorpion fish, sea horses, black spotted morays, spearers, pipe fish and many types of shrimp are frequently spotted here.
Simon’s Reef: Advanced Certificate
At 30m this site has a sandy bottom between large sea mounds.
Bio Roc: All Level
Location: East of Gili Trawangan
A good muck dive, this is our house reef and was the recent location of a Bio Rock project.
Meno Bounty / Jubblies: All Level
LocationL Gili Meno
The bounty is a haven for many types of fish such as Scorpion fish, Stone fish and Juvenile Batfish. Large schools of drummer fish are often seen here.
Japanese Wreck: Nitrox Certificate
The wreck is a Japanese Patrol boat from World War II, it’s about 20 meters long and is sitting upright on a sandy bottom at 45meters. The wreck is covered in scorpion fish and lion fish, there’s a huge frogfish, nudibranchs and much more
Meno Wall: All Levels
Location: West of Gili Meno
Spanish dancers, crabs ranging from small coral crabs up to the huge sponge crab, lobsters, shrimps, sleeping turtles, baby cuttlefish and scorpion fish are amongst the many creatures that can be seen.
Mirkos / Secret Reef: All Levels
Location: Gili Meno
A beautiful deep dive, famous for the beautiful coral, where you can find lots of cool small stuff like Glass Shrimps and Porcelain Crabs.
Air Wall: All Levels
Some great bommies and ridges where the Bump Head Parrot fish like to hang out, progressing on to the wall itself where many macro species plus a great variety of the more unusual marine life can be found.