Scuba Diving in Lembeh Strait

Police Pier

If you dive here it is likely to be at night. Night diving and muck diving share the promise of discovery, so to do a night dive in a place like the Lembeh Strait should be something special, and it is. Police Pier may be an odd name but there is every chance of a 'Sting' coming your way as scorpionfish and lionfish lurk all around. The bottom composition is a dull grey mass, at first glance lifeless but on closer inspection, teeming with activity.

Look out for snake eels with only their stationary heads staring upwards, normally attended to by several cleaner shrimps, stargazers, free-swimming morays, flamboyant cuttlefish, long-armed octopus, and finger dragonets on the bottom.

As you make your way up into the rocky patches between about 15 and 8 metres there is a lot for you to see. The beautiful endemic Banggai cardinalfish are likely to be out en-masse, from miniscule young to fully grown specimens, their numbers can run into hundreds. frogfish too can be lurking around including the giants idly wafting their lure to attract unsuspecting supper.

Your eye seems to catch a different type of crab around every corner including decorator crabs, hermit crabs, spider crabs, countless coral crabs and other bottom-scuttling varieties. This will be another dive that will have you reaching straight for the fish books to try to identify all your weird and wonderful new friends.

Police Pier Reef Basics: Muck dive
Depth: 5 - 15m
Visibility: 5 - 15m
Currents: Gentle
Surface conditions: Calm
Water temperature: 26 - 29°C
Experience level: Intermediate
Number of dive sites: 1
Diving season: All year round
Distance: ~2 km south of Lembeh resorts (10 mins)
Access: Lembeh and Manado resorts and liveaboards

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