Site Description:
Two underwater pinnacles. Due to the location, there are strong currents here most of the time, so divers have to follow the buoy lines down or negative buoyancy entry as fast as possible in order not to miss the sea mount. The peak of the pinnacle is around 17m and you can dive all the way down to 33m. Some divers prefer to name this dive site "whale mount" as some have spotted whale sharks at this spot. It is a very rare occurance to see whale sharks in Redang and highly unlikely you see one at this dive spot.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Advance Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Turtles, fusiliers, big eye jacks, barracuda, red snapper, eagle ray, blue spotted fan tail stingray, grey stingray
Site Description:
One of the most popular and most welcome dive site in redang island. A very steep slope from surface down to almost 38m depth. Very nice hard and soft coral. Depends on the tidal, strong currents normally occur just outside the cape of Tanjung Tokong.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Barracuda, big eyes jack, napoleon wrasse, turtle, big grouper, Queen fish
Site Description:
It has a nick name "Tunnel point" as there are big boulders stacking on each other to form swim through tunnels. Currents are not strong with average depth of around 17m to 24m.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Micro critters, nudibranch, occasion big snapper or turtle
Site Description:
As the name suggests, it is a wreck dive. Nothing interesting as the wreck is small. Since the site is shallow and no current, it consider a good site for OW wreck dive experience.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Juvenile barracuda, coral cods
Site Description:
Begin the dive at the edge of island, and gradually decent following the slope of which will lead you to two pinnacle at the depth of 30m. Big boulders with minimal hard and soft coral.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Nudibranch, jack fish, napoleon wrasse, black tip shark
Site Description:
Begin the dive by heading down the slope to a big boulder at 25m. This is a drift dive adventure where diver decents to few sea mounts at the edge of this island.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Napoleon wrasse, sting rays, puffer fish, turtle
Site Description:
The dive site with an underwater sea mount is one of the highly rated and challenging dive site in Redang. The peak of the sea mount is 14m depth and reaches depth of about 34m. Due to the location at open sea, the current exprected is strong. Divers may need to descend negatively or decent using the buoy line.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Advance Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Batfish, jack fish, eagle ray, queen fish, big snapper, tuna and other big sea creatures
Site Description:
An ordinary dive site. Everage depth of around 24m. Big fishes expected to be seen here are jack fish or sharks.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Jack fish, sharks.
Site Description:
Dive site is situated South of Lima island. You can find beautiful hard and soft corals without the need to go too deep. A drift dive recommended here as current are strong.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Jack fish, tuna, turtle, blue spotted stingray, shark, barracuda
Site Description:
This dive site used to be filled with black corals. The site with a max depth of about 40m is an excellent site for AOW deep dive. Plenty of hard corals at shallow end and abudant soft coral at depth of more than 20m.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Jack fish, barracuda, blue spotted stingray, shark
Site Description:
Not visited very often by divers, this is one of the best kept underwater world. A very small dive site with strong current, where diver need to do immediate negative buoyancy descend in order not to miss the dive site. A proper dive plan is a must.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Advance Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Big sea fishes, sting ray
Site Description:
One of the most frequently visited site in Redang as it is one of the simplest dive site available with the max depth at 18m, with little or no current.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Turtle, pipe fish, nudibranch
Site Description:
The dive site is over an underwater sea mount with beautiful marine life surrounded very nice hard and soft corals combination. One of the hot dive spots in Redang Island. Current may be vary depend on tide table.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Big sting ray, turtle, black tip shark, porcupine fish, trevally, turtle.
Site Description:
This dive site is mainly a sub-merged reef cover with beautiful hard and soft coral. Max depth at 17m.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Shark, sting rays, coral cods, snapper
Site Description:
This is a ver easy dive site with a max depth of 16m. This dive site houses most of the hard coral species found in Redang Island.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Sting rays, bat fish, yellow tail barracuda, turtle
Site Description:
This site is the furthers dive site from long beach. Various type of soft corals and fishes.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Sting rays, jack fish, nudibranch
Site Description:
This dive site is full of oceanic fish as this is an artificial reef made to attract small and big fishes for fisherman. No coral at this dive site.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Advance Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Barracuda, jack, mackerels, snappers and other oceanic fish
Site Description:
House reef for dive centres at long beach. A simple dive site perfect of Open Water training.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Giant grouper, sting ray, shark
Site Description:
Average depth 17m.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Shark, stingray, porcupine fish
Site Description:
A sunken Vietnamese fishing vessel lay at 25m sandy bottom. Not much corals, but expect huge school of fish above the wreck.
As of 2011 Season, both the wrecks have been destroyed, leaving the floor bed scattered with wreckage, due to trawlers. Still has ample marine life around the wreckage.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Advance Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Bat fish, jack, snapper, giant grouper, big stingray, shark, lion fish, puffer fish, porcupine fish
Site Description:
This dive site has got nice hard and soft coral with a maximum depth 17m.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Pipe fish, stone fish, yellow tail barracuda
Site Description:
Batu China Terjun is one of the best macro dive in redang island. Depth varies from 14m to 19m.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Pipe fish, cleaner shrimp, stone fish, scorpion fish, lion fish, spotted eel, white eye eel, porcupine fish, puffer fish
Site Description:
Two underwater sea mounts where it house many hard and soft corals.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Turtles, fusiliers, yellow snappers, blue spotted sting rays, school of small barracuda
Site Description:
This is one of those dive sites where you either love it or hate it. What you may encounter on the dive varies and like the name suggests, the site is a sandy bottom. However if you are lucky, you may see lots of small micro animals not found on other dive sites. Average depth are about 10m to 21m. A proper planning is required before the dive.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Advance Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Frogfish, nudibranch, crab, shrimp, starfish, blue ring octopus, octopus, cutterfish.
Site Description:
Jungle of black corals, where submerged reef from 14m all the way down to 27m, normally visibility not good, but plenty of fishes.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Advance Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Black coral, nudibranch, jack fish, big school of razor fish, shark, barracuda.
Site Description:
Slope cover of with plenty of big boulder
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Stingray, corals, cod fish
Site Description:
One of the top dive site at Redang Island. A very nice hard and soft coral at shallow end, while big fishes frequently encountered at deeper end of the dive.
Site Rating:
Experience Required: Open Water
Sea animals seen in the past:
Barracuda, snapper, moray eel, turtle, shark