Gili Islands dive site
Total Heaven
Something at every depth — from five metres of mushroom coral to a pinnacle past thirty.
Gili Islands dive site
Something at every depth — from five metres of mushroom coral to a pinnacle past thirty.
Total Heaven is where we go when the group is mixed, because it genuinely works at every depth. It opens as a shallow field of mushroom corals — the kind of five-to-ten-metre reef where a hawksbill turtle is usually somewhere in the picture.
From there you swim out to the main feature: a large pinnacle that starts at around twelve metres and drops past thirty. Big green turtles rest on it, batfish hold station off its edges, morays sit back in the cracks and sponges cover the deeper flanks.
Frogfish turn up on this site too, though not reliably. They are a find rather than a fixture, and we would rather you were surprised than disappointed.
What you come for
The shallow coral field sits inside Try Scuba and Open Water limits, so beginners get a real dive here rather than a consolation one. The pinnacle rewards Advanced divers who can follow it down past thirty metres.
On a mixed boat, two groups can dive the same site with completely different profiles and both come up happy — which is exactly why it stays in the rotation.
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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