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Welcome to Diving Bunaken, Manado!!

We are a PADI 5 Star Dive Center in Bunaken offering dive trips, PADI courses and snorkeling trips to the best sites of Bunaken Marine Park.

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Welcome to Diving Bunaken, Manado!!

We are a PADI 5 Star Dive Center in Bunaken offering dive trips, PADI courses and snorkeling trips to the best sites of Bunaken Marine Park.

Plan your adventure

Welcome to Diving Bunaken, Manado!!

We are a PADI 5 Star Dive Center in Bunaken offering dive trips, PADI courses and snorkeling trips to the best sites of Bunaken Marine Park.

Plan your adventure

Dive in Bunaken Island, Manado

Bunaken Diving: Asia's Best Wall Diving in the Coral Triangle

Asian Diver magazine named Bunaken Best Wall Diving in Asia in 2004 — the walls are still amazing today, sitting inside a national marine park protected since 1991. Bunaken National Marine Park is the heart of the Coral Triangle, one of the most biodiverse reef systems on earth: sheer coral walls dropping hundreds of metres, draped in two-metre gorgonian fans, with green and hawksbill turtles resident on almost every dive. It is also one of the best places in the world to see pyramid butterflyfish in their thousands, alongside Napoleon wrasse, eagle rays and whitetip reef sharks at current-swept sites like Fukui Point.

Two Fish Divers Bunaken is an award-winning PADI 5-Star Centre on the east side of Bunaken Island at Panggalisang Beach, with its own small, cosy resort — nine wooden cottages and two garden rooms around an 18m swimming pool. Manado is a 45–60 minute drive from the airport, and Bunaken Island is a 20–30 minute private-boat ride (or 45–60 minutes by public boat); we arrange all transfers to make your stay stress-free.

Accommodation

From IDR

730,000
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1,100,000

pp /night (full board)

Diving

From IDR

1,650,000

for 2 Dives

Diving Price Includes

  • Dive guide.
  • Tanks & weights.
  • Snacks & refreshments.
  • Unlimited coffee & tea at the dive center.
  • Free flow refillable drinking water – bring a refillable water bottle so that you stay hydrated AND help to keep the island plastic-free.

Equipment Rental

  • Rp250,000/day for Full set – reg, BCD, long wetsuit, mask, booties, fins.
  • Dive computer – Rp125,000/day
  • Nitrox – Rp150,000/tank
  • 15L tanks – Rp125,000/tank
Reception area at Two Fish Divers Bunaken
Scuba diving equipment room at Two Fish Divers Bunaken
Two Fish Divers resort on Bunaken Island, North Sulawesi
Dive boat at Two Fish Divers Bunaken
Reception area at Two Fish Divers Bunaken
Scuba diving equipment room at Two Fish Divers Bunaken
Two Fish Divers resort on Bunaken Island, North Sulawesi
Dive boat at Two Fish Divers Bunaken

Our Diving Schedule

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Transfers

We can organise:
  • Airport transfers from Manado Airport, journey time is about 45-60mins to Manado.
  • Boat transfers: 20-30 min transfer from Bawoho, Manado with private boat or a 45-60 min ride from Manado Harbour with the public boat.
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Accomodation

We have our own small, cosy resort with 9 wooden cottages & 2 garden rooms surrounding a beautiful 18m swimming pool. As there are no restaurant alternatives on Bunaken Island, all accommodation is offered as full board
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Diving Schedules

Our normal daily schedule:
  • Depart after breakfast at 8am for 2 morning dives. Snacks, drinking water, coffee and tea are provided on the boat.
  • Return to the resort for lunch at 1pm
  • Afternoon dives leave at 2:30pm and return to the resort about 4pm
  • Night dives leave between 5 and 5:30 and return to the resort for dinner
Our special dives are dawn dives, mandarin fish dives and night dives. These can be arranged while you are here. (weather and tides permitting) We can also arrange day trips doing 3 dives with lunch on the boat. There is a minimum number of divers and a fuel supplement for day trips.
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Finish Your Diving Day

We finish off your day by logging your dives with our dive guide, reviewing the sightings in our fish-id books, and confirming if you wish to do more diving tomorrow! Beers and cocktails are also readily available after your diving at our own beach cafe!
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DETAILS ABOUT SITES WE DIVE

Our Favourite Diving Sites in Bunaken Island, Manado

View location details and information about the dive sites offered in this location:

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DIVE SITES

Bunaken Island

Bunaken Island is one of 5 islands that make up the Bunaken Marine Park. The seas around the islands are very deep, in some places more than 600m deep, and the islands are “pinnacles” that reach the surface. Think of them as a submerged mountain range! The dive sites around Bunaken have dramatic drop-offs mixed with sloping areas and beautiful coral gardens at the tops of the reef. There is a huge variety of soft and hard corals that offer a home to an abundance of reef fish and critters. There are lots of fusiliers, butterflyfish, sweetlips, cardinal fish and damsel fish everywhere. Lots of green and hawksbill turtles are seen swimming and sleeping on the reef walls. Bigger things like tuna, humphead parrotfish, wahoo, barracudas and reef sharks are often seen swimming past the reef. Hiding on the wall there are lots of smaller critters such as scorpion fish, shrimps, nudibranch, lionfish, and seahorses hidden on the walls.

Why Choose Two Fish for Diving Bunaken?

Small groups

No more than four guests per dive guide

Expert dive guides

Who have done thousands of dives

Long dives

We just ask you to surface after 75mins or on 40bar

Wash and store

All dive gear is loaded onto boats in the morning, and removed and washed after your diving, so all you need to do is DIVE

Commitment to quality

By having full-time instructors at each dive center who teach according to our principles, and who follow the PADI guidelines for providing a safe courses.

Questions about Bunaken

Common questions about diving Bunaken

Wall diving. Vertical coral walls drop from 5 metres into deep blue, draped in sea fans, barrel sponges and soft corals. Sea turtles appear on nearly every dive, visibility regularly tops 30 metres, and the whole area sits inside Bunaken Marine Park — a protected national park since 1991 and one of the most biodiverse reef systems on earth.
On a typical morning of two dives, five to ten turtle sightings is normal. Bunaken Island is a nesting site for green and hawksbill turtles, so they're resident rather than seasonal, and they're relaxed enough to allow close approach.
Year-round. Visibility is best March–October, often 30 metres or more. November–February brings a little more rain but diving continues daily. Water temperature stays 27–30°C all year.
Yes. The walls start at 5 metres and several sites have gentle conditions, so we run Discover Scuba Diving and Open Water courses here regularly. Some sites do carry current, and your guide always matches the site to your experience.
The signature walls are Lekuan I, II and III. Fukui Point brings a lovely slope with schooling fish, and sites such as Bunaken Timur & Sachiko Point are drift dives with overhangs and sightings of whitetip sharks. We also visit the other islands of Siladen and Manado Tua with more coral gardens and deeper walls.
Regularly. Whitetip and blacktip reef sharks, eagle rays, barracuda schools and giant trevally turn up. Bunaken is also one of the best places in the world to see pyramid butterflyfish in large schools.
We recommend a minimum of five nights to dive the key sites properly, with seven nights ideal — enough to settle into the island pace and potentially add Lembeh.
Yes — it's our most popular multi-location trip. Lembeh is about two hours away and the polar opposite: black sand and tiny critters instead of walls and turtles. Our Walls & Muck Safari pairs diving Lembeh Strait with Bunaken and handles all transfers.