North of Gili Trawangan
Deep Turbo
Pinnacle to pinnacle, across a reef in genuinely good condition.
North of Gili Trawangan
Pinnacle to pinnacle, across a reef in genuinely good condition.
Deep Turbo is a route rather than a single landmark. Big pinnacles and sea mounds rise off a sand bottom close enough together that the dive becomes a sequence: leave one, cross open sand, arrive at the next.
Between and around them the reef is in genuinely good condition — overhangs, short walls, and gorgonian fans big enough to be the reason you stop swimming. Reef sharks work the edges, redtooth triggerfish hang above the coral, and garden eels stand up out of the sand in the gaps.
It is also the site where the unexpected turns up. Wahoo, eagle rays and leopard sharks are all on the list here. None of them is common, and none of them is something we would promise you.
What you come for
Advanced only. The site starts at fifteen metres and the good part runs past thirty, which is the Advanced Adventurer limit — there is no shallow version of this dive.
The depth and the profile make it a sensible nitrox dive if you are certified for enriched air.
Deep Turbo is one of the sites where the current can run medium to strong, and it is dived as a drift. Buoyancy matters more here than usual: these pinnacles are healthy precisely because divers have kept off them.
Advanced only.
Never promised, never scheduled. Mantas, mola mola and whale sharks are not resident in the Gili Islands — when they turn up it is luck, and we would rather you dived here for the reef.
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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