Komodo Island Diving Holiday

Komodo Island amazing scuba diving destination from Planet Dive Holidays

Komodo Island and national park offers divers every type of tropical diving conceivable, which is why the waters around the island have earned the reputation for one of the world’s best dive sites. Divers can experience sites with warm, calm, shallow reefs which shelter colourful reef fish and macro critters as well as cooler, deep-water sea pinnacles and walls patrolled by sharks, tuna, and large schools of pelagics.

Komodo lies in a region which is the world’s epicentre for marine diversity. There are more fish species there than any other place on the planet. Much of the marine life which can be seen in around Komodo is rarely found in other parts of the world – sunfish, mantas, dolphins, eagle rays, ornate ghost pipefish, pygmy seahorses and blue ringed octopus. An array of corals, sponges, squirts and tunicates make these dive sites incredibly colourful.

Komodo and Rinca Islands are part of Flores, separated from Sumbawa to the west by the Sape Strait. In the middle of the strait, the bottom drops to almost 300 metres. The many islands and relatively shallow seas between Flores and Komodo's west coast mean very fast currents at tidal changes, especially when the higher tidal waters of the Pacific Ocean in the north flow through into the Indian Ocean to the south. The upwellings from the deep surrounding seas bring nutrients and plankton to keep the waters of Komodo Island rich and well-fed, which makes perfect conditions for some spectacular scuba diving.
On land, the unusual landscape of Komodo Island sets the perfect backdrop for the home of the world’s largest lizard, the Komodo Dragon. The 'ora' as they are called locally, can be seen on excursions on the island.

Because there is no accommodation on the island itself, Komodo is best dived from a liveaboard. The liveaboards often visit the sites around Komodo, Rinca, and Flores.

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