The Cape of Bira is all for the sharks, rays and other pelagic fish and strong currents and dangerous to know (Want to know more about how accurately assessing the current level of Click? Here to learn. It was a German dive operators but was produced from the country and only a few months later, a tragic accident when the designation was removed and 5 divers Cape Bira Japanese (This story, which was washed again twice by different people, he said another in Pulau Kambing). If you meet your guide for advice on diving patterns and time of day for some dive sites! visibility is good, but I read that water can be very cold (23-24 ° C) in August. We had very hot water (29 to 30 °) in April.
We made several dives in the deep mantle and popular. Both times we got into the water just east of Cape Town, were the first round against a wall, a slope, then turned on the banks of time to reach a level of security. In the deepest points (30-40m), we find some dark sharks and immersion in a group of 6 eagle rays, the second dive 2 eagle rays and large 3m gray stripes) black (! The soils are very interesting, even using a magnifying glass – some of the slugs and eels. The electricity can go a bit and we are really a safety stop hanging like flags in a block of coral, no!
Dynamite Fishing (fishing with explosives) is still used around Bira and our second dive, a fisherman was a stick of dynamite too close to us. I just see an eagle ray in shallow water, holding my tank banger to attract the attention of my partner and thinking then changed his mind – that shock – when a loud bang, perhaps made us all scared to death Striptease radio very quick! Our ship’s crew had told us that after a fisherman, a pump (a bottle with a mixture of fertilizer and gasoline full) just around the corner! Some of my friends had appeared before diving here, and were very disappointed when diving to Mamasa Pinnacles, north of Bira, because the beautiful upper reef had been destroyed with dynamite! (see report below)
Bira House Reef Dive Center: a beautiful wall dive to a depth of about 20 seems a lot about this shy lionfish Clearfin spotless, zebrafish, lionfish and the twins in a pot, even lions. Also slugs and many coral reef fish.
Tanjung Bira (Bira Bay): a dive with dozens of sharks, and if you’re lucky, even a hammer.
Shark Point: This site is located near the port. You need a drift dive on a slope, and can sometimes much Surrenti. A good place for big fish like tuna, mackerel, shark and cod.
Pulau Kambing (Goat Iceland): The stress in the strait between the island SELAYAR (vocals) and Bira are two islands. We made several dives Kambing, all very good. Diving on a wall, which descends at least 60 meters. Sometimes there is a lot of electricity, you need to know when you and dive in where you can listen better, the dive master and elsewhere. In diving, there were always sharks patrols in both directions – White Top, black on the wall of sharks sharks and coral garden starts around 15 meters. But you’re also likely to see schoool hunting mackerel, tuna and mackerel Abd bumhead large groups of parrots. In the Coral Garden, you can find Scorpionfishes cuttlefish or octopus with a little luck and zebra batfish juvenile justice. An ideal place for diving!
Night Diving in the coral garden: Night dives, near Pantai Kechil (little beach) just south of the harbor of Bira is Nive. We meet many interesting animals: Spanish dancer, lionfish Twinspot sleeping turtle, squid and more squid. A highlight was the huge cone shell (Conus geographus) dams, such as fish and shellfish. It has spread his coat all the size of about 30cm and exploration with an appendix in the chest (siphon) for the spoils. This bullet shoots extremely poisonous darts into their prey. The venom paralyzes and kills fish and even humans (I read that more than 3 dozen deaths are known, which were caused by him).
Tanjung Cumi (SELAYAR): I loved the diving around SELAYAR much. We were on our boat trip from the southern tip Ciska and made a few dives on the east side of SELAYAR. Diving Tanjung Cumi was very interesting, with a school of barracuda, reef sharks hiding under a table and a shoal of large sharks in the blue.
SELAYAR Dive Resort: There are several very nice dive sites around the station. Friends of mine diving great white tip and gray sharks blacktipped (at a depth of 40m and more) and covered with sea fans, soft corals, huge sponges and colorful reef fish in the shallower parts.
SELAYAR reefs are still under study and are not usually visited by travelers. Look at this description of the dive sites Marlin and Michael Bode (report in English and German).
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