Saddleback Reef

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What you'll see (7)

Orangestripe TriggerfishBalistapus undulatusseen 1× near here

Eastern Triangle ButterflyfishChaetodon baronessaseen 1× near here

Pearly Monocle BreamScolopsis margaritiferaseen 1× near here

Striped SurgeonfishAcanthurus lineatusseen 1× near here

Lovely Headshield SlugChelidonura amoenaseen 1× near here

Oriental Bluespotted MaskrayNeotrygon orientaleseen 1× near here

Pacific Ocean Crown-of-ThornsAcanthaster solarisseen 1× near here

Planning a trip

6–9 days

worth going for

Long flight and a domestic connection.

2,026km from Singapore — about 18h each way, so two of those days are travel. 17 dive sites within 25km, enough for several days of diving.

When people dive it

Busiest Feb, May · almost nobody dives it Jan, Mar, Apr, Jul, Aug, Sep, Nov.

From 1,044 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

70% 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

~7h 24m

door to water, each way · 3 legs

FlightManado (MDC)~5h 39mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
TransferBitung, for Lembeh1h 30mFor Bunaken it is 20 minutes to the Manado jetties instead.Directions →
Dive boatSaddleback Reef15 minLembeh's crossing is 15 minutes; Bunaken is about 45.

📍 Saddleback Reef on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Manado

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

Island: Pulau Batudaka
Country: Indonesia
Marks: 0°27.222'S 121°57.140'E
Position: -0.4537, 121.9523

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.