Required experience for Nusa Penida Drift
★ ★ ☆ Advanced open water diver with a minimum of 20 dives.
Location Type
Nusa Penida Drift is on Bali’s sister island, about 8km east. Sloping reefs, canyons and walls.
Access
20 minutes by boat from Padang Bai to the 10 different dive sites on the north coast of Nusa Penida and Nusa Lembongan.
We need minimum 2 divers to guarantee this trip, send us a message to check our schedule.
Coral
The Nusa Penida Corals are from a very good quality and the island host a good variety and number of hard and soft coral.
Fish
Best variety of tropical reef fish in Bali, you probably see most of south east Asia’s marine species in only one dive. Often seeing pelagic species such as tuna, manta ray and oceanic sunfish during the drift dive. This place is also great to spot some turtles.
Current
Can be anything from mild to strong depending on the moon. Mostly drift diving.
Visibility
25-50 m even in the rainy seasons.
Note
Generally, diving conditions are best in the morning. You can do 2 dives as a morning dive and we are back for lunch in the resort.
Or you can combine this dive with diving in Crystal Bay and/or Manta Point on a daytrip with 2 or 3 dives.
Highlight
Sloping reef, drift dive with masses of fish, with pelagics in the blue. And of course the variety of the Nusa Penida Corals!
