Manta Wai

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What you'll see (17)

Yellow BoxfishOstracion cubicumseen 4× near here

Bowers' ParrotfishChlorurus bowersiseen 4× near here

Reef Manta RayMobula alfrediseen 4× near here

Coi's GoniobranchusGoniobranchus coiseen 3× near here

Redfin BreamMonotaxis heterodonseen 3× near here

Green Sea TurtleChelonia mydasseen 2× near here

Fluted Giant ClamTridacna squamosaseen 2× near here

Freckled HawkfishParacirrhites forsteriseen 2× near here

Eastern Triangle ButterflyfishChaetodon baronessaseen 2× near here

Blacklip ButterflyfishChaetodon kleiniiseen 2× near here

Spotnape ButterflyfishChaetodon oxycephalusseen 2× near here

Indonesian Speckled CarpetsharkHemiscyllium freycinetiseen 2× near here

Highfin CoralgrouperPlectropomus oligacanthusseen 2× near here

Giant MorayGymnothorax javanicusseen 2× near here

Map PufferArothron mappaseen 2× near here

Clark's AnemonefishAmphiprion clarkiiseen 2× near here

One-stripe fusilierPterocaesio tessellataseen 2× near here

Planning a trip

6–10 days

worth going for

Long flight and a domestic connection.

3,002km from Singapore — about 18h each way, so two of those days are travel. 34 dive sites within 25km, enough for several days of diving.

When people dive it

Busiest Jan, Feb, Oct, Nov, Dec.

From 10,310 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

Dive Crew is a dive group from Singapore. Members plan trips here, log their dives, and share their photos of each site.

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Monsoon

Good

October works.

The best diving in the region and the narrowest window to reach it — the liveaboards physically leave for the southeast monsoon.

The year here

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Best here: November, December, January, February, March.

Raja Ampat and West Papua. Written by hand from how the season actually runs, calibrated against what the boats do, since a season that disagrees with the operators is wrong however good the meteorology behind it. It describes most years, not this one: the forecast above is what knows about next week.

Moon and tides

Waning gibbous

71% lit · day 20 of the lunar month

Neap tides

Neap tides — the smallest range of the month, so the weakest currents. Easy conditions and usually the clearest water, though a drift site may barely drift.

New 10 Oct Full 26 Oct

Phase computed here, not fetched. This is the spring/neap cycle, which sets how hard the water moves — not a tide table: no free source publishes high and low water for Southeast Asian reefs, and the range peaks a day or two after the moon does, by an amount that varies with the coast. For times on the day, ask the operator.

Getting there

~9h 33m

door to water, each way · 3 legs

FlightSorong (SOQ)~6h 33mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
FerryWaisai2hTwice a day, and missing it costs you a day. Liveaboards leave from Sorong harbour instead.
Dive boatManta Wai1hRaja Ampat's sites are spread wide — an hour is typical, more for Misool.

📍 Manta Wai on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Sorong

Times marked ~ are estimated from straight-line distance and will be roughly right at best. The road legs are the ones Google Maps answers properly; it will not plan the ferry or the dive boat at all. A dive site's coordinates put a pin in open water, so the map link drops you on the site, not on a jetty.

Details

Type: yes
Island: Pulau Way
Country: Indonesia
Marks: 0°41.242'S 130°44.562'E
Position: -0.6874, 130.7427

Where it is

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Nearby

Sightings and photographs from iNaturalist contributors, research-grade records within 6km, under Creative Commons licences. Counts are what divers and snorkellers have bothered to log — a common fish with few records is common all the same.