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Welcome to Diving Lembeh, Manado!!

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

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Welcome to Diving Lembeh, Manado!!

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

Plan your adventure

Welcome to Diving Lembeh, Manado!!

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

Plan your adventure

Dive in Lembeh Straits, Manado

Lembeh Strait Diving: Muck Capital of the World — Critters & Macro

Lembeh Strait is the thin stretch of sea between Lembeh Island and Bitung, and it is known as the muck diving capital of the world. Diving here means working the black sandy slopes that look unremarkable at first glance but teem with rare critters found in very few other places — hairy frogfish, pygmy seahorses, mimic and blue-ring octopus — and our guides are experts at spotting them. Beyond the muck there are also reefs and walls too, with the sites just five minutes from our beach.

Two Fish Divers Lembeh is an award-winning PADI 5-Star Centre set right in the middle of the strait, in a bay with a private beach. We have our own small, cosy resort — six wooden cottages and two garden rooms by the water. Lembeh Island is a 10-minute boat ride from Bitung, which is a 60–90 minute drive from Manado city or airport; we can arrange transfers as requested.

Diving

From IDR

1,650,000

for 2 Dives

Accommodation

From IDR

805,000
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1,000,000

pp /night (full board)

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 – Rp120,000/tank
  • 15L tanks – Rp125,000/tank
Two Fish Divers Lembeh resort accommodation
Dive boat moored at the beach in front of Two Fish Divers Lembeh
Scuba diving equipment room at Two Fish Divers Lembeh
Two Fish Divers Lembeh dive centre office
Two Fish Divers Lembeh resort accommodation
Dive boat moored at the beach in front of Two Fish Divers Lembeh
Scuba diving equipment room at Two Fish Divers Lembeh
Two Fish Divers Lembeh dive centre office

Our Diving Schedule

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Transfers

We can organise:
  • Airport transfers from Manado Airport, journey time is about 60-90mins to Bitung
  • Boat transfers from Bitung to Lembeh Island, journey time is about 10mins.
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Accomodation

We have our own small, cosy resort with 6 wooden cottages & 2 garden rooms on a private beach, with great sea views and beautiful gardens, with prices ranging from budget to more deluxe. As there are no restaurant alternatives on Lembeh Island, all accommodation is offered as full board
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Diving Schedule

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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DIVING HIGHLIGHTS

What's the Diving Like in Lembeh Straits, Manado

Lembeh Straits is known as the muck diving capital of the world, and is one of the few places in the world where you will see the elusive hairy frog fish, pygmy sea horses, larger sea horses like the thorny seahorse, mimic octopus, wunderpus and flamboyant cuttlefish to name a few.

Muck dives consist of sandy black slopes with good visibility, approximately 10-15m. It is a macro-photographers dream, as the slopes are teaming of all sorts of fascinating critters and the black sand reduces back-glare. Muck dives are the main reason many divers return to us, in Lembeh, time and time again.

Lembeh also has some fascinating ship wrecks. They are covered in both corals and creatures making them fantastic to explore.

Last but not least, Lembeh is also surrounded by sites with small walls and slopes full of soft corals. Lembeh diving truly does have something for everyone.

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DETAILS ABOUT SITES WE DIVE

Our Favourite Diving Sites in Lembeh Straits, Manado

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DIVE SITES

Dive Sites in Lembeh

We have over 30 dive sites so you will not get bored diving in Lembeh! However we do have lots of favourites that we will try and take you to while you are here like Nudi Falls, Angels Window, TK 1, Hairball, Serena, Police Pier, Tanjung Tebal and Jahir.
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Dive Conditions in Lembeh

Officially we have a “dry season” which is Apr/May-Sept/Oct and a “wet season” from Nov-Apr, but its actually great diving all year round with water temp 29-30C and visibility 15-25m all the time! Our wet season is not the typical monsoon season that can close an entire region and last for months, instead it is just a period that gets more rain than sunshine. To be honest, over the last few years these “seasons” have been getting less distinct and are now very similar to each other. This means we get a mixture of sun & rain all year round that consists of
  • blue skies & sun in morning followed by an hour of rain
  • the occasional full day of drizzle (but still warm)
  • the occasional day of wind, this can limit our sites as we have to stay on the leeward side
Even so, January-March does get a bit more rain than the other months, and although the visibility can drop to 10m it is still great diving. If there is bad weather when you are here then it often only lasts 3-4 days before the sun starts again. We do get current on some dive sites but usually it is a easy drift current along the wall. You don’t need to worry about kicking into the current for half the dive as our dive boats will pick us up from wherever we come up. We pick our dive sites based on conditions, diver comfort and experience so that you get to have great dives!
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Why Choose Two Fish for Diving Lembeh?

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 Lembeh Strait

Common questions about diving Lembeh Strait

The world's best muck critters. Mimic octopus, hairy frogfish, blue-ringed octopus, multiple pygmy seahorse species, flamboyant cuttlefish, wonderpus, rhinopias scorpionfish, ghost pipefish, and dozens of nudibranchs. Lembeh consistently turns up species that surprise even the guides.
Diving the black sand slopes of the strait, which look unremarkable until you spot what lives there — rare, superbly camouflaged critters found in very few other places. Our guides are experts at finding them, and the dark sand makes a clean background that photographers love.
Muck diving is about precise buoyancy — you hover centimetres above the sand near small, fragile creatures without touching down or kicking up silt. It's not about depth or current, it's about control. If you can hold good buoyancy without touching the bottom, you're ready.
No, but photographers love it. Even without a camera, watching a mimic octopus change shape or a frogfish strike at prey is extraordinary. That said, if you prefer big-animal diving, Bunaken or Nusa Penida may suit you better.
Year-round. Water sits at 26–29°C and the critters are resident rather than migratory, so the species list doesn't change much by season. Some divers prefer the calmer conditions of March–June and October–November.
A 60mm or 100mm macro lens covers most Lembeh subjects, with a diopter for the smallest critters like pygmy seahorses. Bring your own strobes if you can, and a snoot works beautifully against the dark sand.
They're opposites. Bunaken is wall diving — big vistas, turtles, pristine reef, clear blue water. Lembeh is muck diving — black sand, tiny critters, a photography focus and a different skill set. Most experienced divers say you haven't properly dived North Sulawesi until you've done both.
A minimum of three nights, though five is ideal. Every dive reveals new species, and even after a week the guides are still showing you things you haven't seen. Many guests pair it with Bunaken on our Walls & Muck Safari.