Morotai and Ternate Explore with Diving Trip

Start: 12 Agu 2016, 17.00

Halmahera, Indonesia is situated exactly between Lembeh Strait and the Raja Ampat islands – right in the heart of the Coral Triangle! Located between the diving meccas of Manado and Raja Ampat, Halmahera has the potential to be yet another amazing Indonesian scuba diving destination. Halmahera’s pristine beauty, both above the water and below the water, is truly unrivalled. Its remote location and lack of infrastructure have inhibited the growth of tourism.
Topographically and geographically Halmahera is an amazing group of islands with huge biodiversity of not only fish life but geologically, this also means that dive site types here are very diverse too. Halmahera offers unspoiled and uncrowded dive sites.The Northern Halmahera district area is also an emerging diving destination. Morotai Island, lying to the north of Halmahera, was a hive of activity during World War II, serving as an air-base for both the Allies and the Japanese. The ghosts of war still linger in this area, where wrecks of aircrafts can be found underwater providing a home to coral reefs and many diverse marine creatures.
Halmahera is situated exactly between Lembeh Strait and the Raja Ampat islands, located right in the centre of the Coral Triangle and those that dive here think it is their best diving ever! With easy diving along steep drop offs to lovely shallow coral gardens, dive the untouched reefs of Halmahera, and you will see everything from pygmy seahorses, turtles, giant groupers, sharks to schooling fish; caverns and schools of fish, coral covered slopes, perfect shallow reef tops, bays with seahorses and other critters, pinnacles, reefs, and uninhabited islands!
The coral experts have already recorded 450 species, which is more than half of the corals in the world (56 percent) and 75 percent of all the corals ever recorded around Halmahera alone! And this was done in a brief survey, not an extensive one. The fish experts have also recorded almost 700 species (686 including two new species), which is 12 percent of the world’s total and 31 percent of the number ever recorded.
This matches or beats all but the most famous dive sites in the world – nearby Raja Ampat and the Komodo National Park. Diving Halmahera is certain to be a unique and exhilarating experience!
DATE TRIP 13-17 AUGUST 2016
Day 1 August 13, 2016
07:00 WIT Guest delegation from Jakarta arrived at TTE, Garuda plane, picked up
08:00 WIT Breakfast with Yellow Rice while on the way to the Port Speed
09:00 WIT Towards to Sofifi
09:45 WIT Towards Tobelo, Lunch at Kao Bay (RM Leme)
13:00 WIT Sea journey from Daruba from Tobelo
15:00 WIT Preparing diving at the Museum
16:00 WIT Check Dive 1 Museum
17:00 WIT Completed diving, toward Water Glass (Mac Arthur Baths)
15:00 WIT Back in the hotel, Break, Clean Up Time
16:00 WIT Towards to dinner place
19:00 WI Dinner at the Pacific Hotel
20:00 WIT Discussion, Dive Plan for tomorrow, Risk Assessment
23:00 WIT Rest
Day-2, August 14, 2016
07:00 WIT Breakfast
07:40 WIT Preparing for diving Day-2
08:40 WIT Meet with other groups in the Dive Center
09:30 WIT Diving 1, Aru Point
10:30 WIT Surface Interval, while towards the port
11:30 WIT The ship ride to the site of diving into two
12:30 WIT Diving 2 in Pygmie point
13:30 WIT Surface interval and lunch at Kokoya
14:30 WIT Diving 3 in Blacktip Point
15:30 WIT Relaxing break in Sand Island Kokoya
16:30 WIT Back to Daruba, Clean Up Time, Break
19:30 WIT Dinner at Morotai
20:30 WIT Discussion, Dive Plan for tomorrow, Risk Assessment
23:00 CET Rest
Day 3, August 15, 2016
07:00 WIT Breakfast
07:40 WIT Preparing for diving Day-3
08:40 WIT Meet with other groups in the Dive Center
09:30 WIT Diving 2, Wreck Bristol Beaufort
10:30 WIT Surface Interval, while towards the port
11:30 WIT Sea journey to diving place part 2
12:30 WIT Diving 2 in Fariman
13:30 WIT Surface interval and lunch at Kokoya
14:30 WIT Diving 3 in Niomi Point
15:30 WIT relaxing break in Sand Island Kokoya
16:30 WIT Back to Daruba, Bath, Break
19:30 WIT Dinner at Morotai
20:30 WIT Discussion, Dive Plan for tomorrow, Risk Assessment
23:00 WIT Rest

Day-4, August 16, 2016
07:00 WIT Breakfast
07:40 WIT Preparing to Sagolo
08:40 WIT Arrive and dive preparation 7
09:30 Diving 7, Coconut Point Sagolo
10:30 WIT Surface Interval, while towards the port
11:30 WIT The ship ride to the site of diving into two
12:30 WIT Diving 2 in Daloha
13:30 WIT Surface interval and lunch at Kokoya
14:30 WIT Diving 3 in Sangat Daloha
15:30 WIT Feedback to Daruba, Bath, Break
16:30 WIT Loading Baggage to Ship
19:30 WIT Go to Ship
20:30 WIT Dinner on board
23:00 WIT Rest
Day-5, August 17, 2016
07:00 to 7:30 WIT Entourage arrived at Ternate
07:30 to 09:00 WIT Photo session at Lake Ngale + Breakfast
09:00 to 11:00 WIT Sight seeing around Ternate
11:00 to 12:00 WIT in the Garden Spot Light Nukila
14:00 to 15:00 WIT Check In Air Plane
15:00 T-………… Back to Jakarta
TRIP PRICES: IDR 7,500,000 / pax
QUOTA: 6 pax
INCLUDES:
- 9 times dives over three days (free equipment rental)
- 3 night stay at Hotel Ria - Morotai
- Lunch and Dinner (typical menu original from North Maluku)
- A rental car during in Morotai Island
- Transport to Morotai by sea (Ternate-Sofifi), land (Sofifi-Tobelo) and sea (Tobelo-Morotai)
- Transportation back to Ternate via Ferry (departing night)
- Breakfast and sightseeing eclectus
Note:
If there is less than 6 people (the price will rise), there will be a price adjustment, as well as if the participants a total of 8 people (prices will fall)
Information
1 Accommodation: Hotel Pacific Inn (Budget Class) with one room for 2 people, private bathroom, air conditioning, Queen size mattress
2 Failure to dive because of natural factors (waves, extreme weather) and safety considerations cultivated replaced elsewhere (another dive site) and will not be refunded
3 Rent a standard diving equipment (wetsuit, mask, snorkel, bcd, regulator set, booties, fins) free
4 Rent camera (Sony RX100IV / Nikon D7000 = Rp. 400 000 per day) and rental dive comp = Rp. 200,000 per day)
5 Damage to the tool must be replaced at the appropriate rate equipment failure
6 Pack home-cooked meal every day different menu cultivated
7 T-shirts will be provided free trip for each participant
9 each carry one personal guide from another place or another DC guests will be charged the price for one person
10 Optional nite dive in first and second day = free
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