Site Overview
Site Type: | Scenic Reef |
Depth: | Top: 5MMedian: 18MBottom: 30M |
Location: | East of Kri |
Description
Sardine Reef is a small reef that resembles an oval-shaped underwater hill on the east side of Kri. Soft coral, gorgonian fans, black coral bushes and slopes of coral heads populate the whole Sardine Reef area. Large schools of fusiliers, sardines, damsels, banner fish, butterfly fish, sweetlips and snappers frequent the site, picking tasty morsels out of the current.
Triggerfish and predators such as barracuda, Spanish mackerel, Jacks and giant trevallies can be seen as well. At the top of the food-chain, black tipped reef sharks, white tipped reef sharks and even grey reef sharks usually cruise the surroundings.
A typical scene where you couldn’t begin to count the number of organisms in a single frame.
And the whole scene is teeming with small reef fish.
The more you look the more you see – like this tasselled wobbegong
Everywhere there are unique combinations of corals, hard, soft, bushy and coating.
The reef society carries on its business without heed of the visiting divers.
There’s a Titan trigger hiding in this scene somewhere…
I reckon this Freckled Hawkfish owns this particular clump.
Dive Centres
Ambai – Raja Ampat, Triton Bay, Banda Sea
Amira – Raja Ampat, Komodo, Gorontalo
Aurora – Komodo, Alor, Raja Ampat, Banda Sea
Biodiversity Eco Resort, Gam Island, Raja Ampat
Blue Manta, Komodo, Raja Ampat, Banda Sea
Calico Jack Liveaboard Raja Ampat
Damai Liveaboard, (Damai I), Raja Ampat, Komodo, Ambon
Dewi Nusantara – Raja Ampat
Emperor Raja Laut – Raja Ampat, Komodo, Ambon
S/Y Indo Siren Raja Ampat, Komodo
La Galigo Raja Ampat, Komodo
Meridian Adventure Dive Resort, Raja Ampat
Mermaid 1 Liveaboard Bali-Komodo and Raja Ampat
Mermaid 2 Liveaboard Komodo and Raja Ampat
Misool Eco Resort, Batbitim Island, Raja Ampat
Ondina Liveaboard, Alor, Flores, Raja Ampat
Gangga Divers at Papua Paradise Eco Resort, Raja Ampat
Pindito Liveaboard, Komodo and Raja Ampat
Putri Papua Liveaboard, Raja Ampat and Komodo
Raja 4 Divers Pulau Pef Raja Ampat
Raja Ampat Aggressor: Raja Ampat, Banda Sea and Derawan Islands
Raja Ampat Dive Lodge, Mansuar Island, Raja Ampat
Raja Ampat Explorer Liveaboard – Raja Ampat, Banda Sea
Sea Safari 8 – Raja Ampat & Cendarawasih Bay
Seven Seas Liveaboard, Komodo, Raja Ampat, Banda Sea
Tambora Liveaboard, Raja Ampat, Triton Bay, Halmahera & Derawan Islands
TemuKira Liveaboard – Raja Ampat
White Manta Liveaboard, Raja Ampat, Komodo, Banda, Kalimantan