West of Gili Meno
Bounty Wreck
Not a ship — a hotel jetty sunk in 2001, and now a coral-covered macro dive.
West of Gili Meno
Not a ship — a hotel jetty sunk in 2001, and now a coral-covered macro dive.
Everybody calls it a wreck and it is worth saying plainly that it is not one. The Bounty is a hotel jetty that was sunk off Gili Meno in 2001 — a rectangular structure resting on the bottom, which the reef has spent two decades taking over.
That history is exactly why it works. The frame is coral-covered and full of hiding places, so the dive becomes a macro hunt with a shape to it: frogfish on the uprights, seahorses in the growth, scorpionfish and peacock mantis shrimp wherever the coral is thickest, giant clams settled into the structure.
The other half of the dive is the reef beside it, where batfish and turtles come through, and the glass-fish rock — a single coral head with so many glassfish packed around it that the rock itself disappears.
What you come for
The site runs from about eight metres to twenty-five, so Open Water divers get the structure and the reef well within their limits, and Advanced divers can work the deeper edge.
Buoyancy is worth having here. Everything interesting on this dive is small and sitting on something fragile.
The same for every site on this list.
Diving works all year here. April to October is the dry season and gives the clearest water, with September, October, May and June the sweet spot; July and August are the busiest. November to March brings plankton and less visibility, and with it a better chance of something big passing through.
Small groups, four divers to a guide, and a crew that picks the site by the conditions rather than the timetable. Message us on WhatsApp and we will tell you what the water is doing today.
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