Manta divesite

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What you'll see (18)

Green Sea TurtleChelonia mydasseen 7× near here

Spiny SeahorseHippocampus histrixseen 3× near here

Painted Spiny LobsterPanulirus versicolorseen 3× near here

Indian LionfishPterois milesseen 3× near here

Map PufferArothron mappaseen 3× near here

Madagascar AnemonefishAmphiprion latifasciatusseen 3× near here

Indian Redfin ButterflyfishChaetodon trifasciatusseen 2× near here

Fluted Giant ClamTridacna squamosaseen 2× near here

Whale SharkRhincodon typusseen 2× near here

Lyretail HogfishBodianus anthioidesseen 2× near here

Spotted ButterflyfishChaetodon guttatissimusseen 2× near here

Goldtail AngelfishPomacanthus chrysurusseen 2× near here

Lined NembrothaNembrotha lineolataseen 2× near here

Granulated Sea StarChoriaster granulatusseen 2× near here

Titan TriggerfishBalistoides viridescensseen 2× near here

Skunk AnemonefishAmphiprion akallopisosseen 2× near here

Lined BristletoothCtenochaetus striatusseen 2× near here

Blackspot SnapperLutjanus fulviflammaseen 2× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

6,359km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 6 dive sites within 25km.

When people dive it

Busiest May · almost nobody dives it Jan, Feb, Mar, Jun.

From 1,470 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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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

~11h 39m

door to water, each way · 3 legs

FlightNosy Be, Madagascar (NOS)~10h 57mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~12 minRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Dive boatManta divesite~30 minThe last leg is always a boat — a dive site has no address.

📍 Manta divesite on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Nosy Be, Madagascar

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

Country: Madagascar
Marks: 13°22.100'S 48°3.766'E
Position: -13.3683, 48.0628

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.