Police Pier
La profondeur indique la plage entre le sommet du site et son maximum habituel ; le « niveau de certification recommandé » correspond au niveau généralement demandé par les opérateurs selon les agences grand public, et non à une règle légale. Les courants et la visibilité varient chaque jour — considérez toutes ces informations comme des estimations de planification.
Police Pier demonstrates Lembeh's central joke: the uglier the setting, the better the biology. Beneath a working dock near Bitung, pilings and sunken junk function as vertical reef, wrapped in sponges and swarmed by cardinalfish, including thick shoals of the introduced Banggai cardinalfish that have made the strait their adopted home. Frogfish of absurd sizes lounge on tires, ghost pipefish and seahorses hold in the shadows, and octopus conduct salvage operations across the bottom. Dusk dives here segue into mandarinfish territory nearby and squid hunting under the lights. Visibility is often poor and the soundtrack is pure harbor, yet many photographers log it among their favorite dives in the strait.
Le moment pour lequel vous venez: Banggai cardinalfish shoals; giant frogfish on harbor junk; dusk cephalopod activity.
Topographie: Pier pilings, tires, and harbor debris on dark sand grading into a rubble slope.
Entrée: Dived alongside the working waterfront near Bitung; operators coordinate access around harbor activity.
À savoir avant de plonger
Dangers: Boat movement and line debris around an active waterfront; stay with the guide and surface close to the pilings.
Qui vous croiserez
Bigfin Reef Squid
Frogfish
Nudibranchs
Ornate Ghost Pipefish
Seahorses
Pour les photographes
Grand angle: ★★☆☆☆ · Macro: ★★★★★ — note 1–5 des éditeurs sur ce que ce site offre à chaque style de prise de vue