Perhentian Island Dive Sites
Batu Nisan
Minimum Certification : Open Water Diver
Depth : 5m-15m (15'-45')
Current : Weak
This dive site is where you can find a lot of smaller marine creatures such as crabs, shrimps, sea stars, box fish, surgeon fish, puffer fish and sweet lips. You also can see giant clams, Christmas tree worms, snappers and also unicorn fish.
Tokong Laut
Minimum Certification : Open Water Diver
Depth : 5m-19m (15'-57')
Current : Occasionally
Here, you will find various types of marine life and corals. You might even find nudibranchs, puffer fish, box fish, barracuda, stingrays, lion fish and black-tip reef shark just to names a few. There are lots of hard corals that you could locate here.
Shark Point
Minimum Certification : Open Water Diver
Depth : 5m-12m (15'-36')
Current : Can be strong
Besides sighting sharks such as black-tip reef sharks, you also find hawksbill turtle, clown fish, black corals, sea anemones and others.
Vietnamese Wreck
Minimum Certification : Advanced Diver
Depth : 18m-24m (54'-72')
Current : Can be strong
Vietnamese Wreck is a landing craft used by Vietnamese boat-people to on-route to Malaysia. You can catch the glimpse of bat fish, box fish, groupers, angel fish and many more at the shipwreck. Sometimes, you might also find barracuda, jacks, stone fish, stingrays and wrasse.
T3 Tiger Rocks
Minimum Certification : Open Water Diver
Depth : 10m-20m (30'-60')
Current : Can be strong
At Tiger Rocks, you can always find various types of nudibranchs, soft corals, bumphead parrot fish, moray eel, scorpion fish, lion fish, and many other marine creatures. If you are fortunate, you might have a glance of leopard sharks, barracudas and even hawksbill turtles.
Tanjung Basi
Minimum Certification : Open Water Diver
Depth : 5m-25m (15'-75')
Current : Can be quite strong
There are some big rock formations and a couple of small caves and swim-throughs. As the current is often stronger here there are usually schools of bigger fish such as barracuda, trevally, mullet and big grouper. Here, Christmas tree worms, sweetlips, moral eel, scorpion-fish, batfish, humpback wrasse, hawksbill turtle, and white tip reef shark can be found.
Tanjung Butong
Minimum Certification : Advanced Diver
Depth : 15m-25m (36'-75')
Current : Calm
This spot is where you often sight barracudas, jacks, bat fish, butterfly fish, moray eels, fusiliers, trevallies, groupers, and various types of soft corals.
D'Lagoon
Minimum Certification : Open Water Diver
Depth : 2m-12m (6'-36')
Current : Calm
This dive site is suitable for Open Water divers to practice their skills and besides that they can even spot giant stingrays, humhead wrasses, turtles, blue-spotted rays, and also hard corals.
Sugar Wreck
Minimum Certification : Open Water Diver
Depth : 12m-18m (36'-84')
Current : Occasionally
Unlike the name given to this dive site, you will not find any sugars here but you could find lots of marine creatures such as lion fish, tiny box fish, barracuda, jacks, trevally, nurse sharks, crabs and others.
Tiga Ruang
Minimum Certification : Open Water Diver
Depth : 5m-12m (15'-36')
Current : Calm
Tiga Ruang dive site is also suitable for Open Water diver as they can comfortably practice their dive skills without struggling as the current is calm. You can also get to see turtle, stingrays, box fish, parrot fish, sea stars, sea urchins, yellowtail jacks and others.
Batu Layar
Minimum Certification : Open Water Diver
Depth : 12m-13m (15'-36')
Current : Calm
A beautiful submerged coral reef where you'll be greeted by schools of yellow tail barracudas and a huge variety of corals like the bright red fluorescent anemone, staghom coral, table coral, whip coral, barrel sponges and tube worms where you will find different species of groupers, sweetlips, triggerfish, batfish and schools of snappers.
