Sardine Reef

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Sardine Reef

Sardine Reef

Sardine Reef is an incredible diving site, located in the middle of nowhere, this submerged reef with its summit just 5m below the surface has a unique topography, causing different currents to meet – careful, because the current can be quite strong! In fact, there are no sardines on the site, the name comes from the density of fish that can be found here and is sometimes comparable to a school of sardines: tuna, barracuda, jacks, wrasses, parrotfish bump, many sharks (gray, white tip and black carpet ...) ... Sardine reef also has beautiful sea fans where you can find three species of pygmy seahorses (Denise, Bargibanti and Pontohi).

Sardine Reef is an incredible diving site, located in the middle of nowhere, this submerged reef with its summit just 5m below the surface has a unique topography, causing different currents to meet – careful, because the current can be quite strong! In fact, there are no sardines on the site, the name comes from the density of fish that can be found here and is sometimes comparable to a school of sardines: tuna, barracuda, jacks, wrasses, parrotfish bump, many sharks (gray, white tip and black carpet ...) ... Sardine reef also has beautiful sea fans where you can find three species of pygmy seahorses (Denise, Bargibanti and Pontohi).

Sardine Reef is an incredible diving site, located in the middle of nowhere, this submerged reef ...

Other information

Type of dive site
  • Drift dive
  • Arch
  • Coral reef
Depth
  • More than 40
Visibility
30m
Current
often strong
Required scuba diving level / certification
experienced
Fauna
  • Barracudas
  • Moray eels
  • Tuna
  • Turtle
  • Lionfish
  • Seahorses
  • Frogfish
  • Batfish
  • Stonefish
  • Anthias
  • Nudibranchs
  • Napoleon wrasse
  • Trevallies
  • Hard coral
  • Soft coral
  • Red gorgonian fan
  • Carpet shark
  • White-tip reef Shark
Flora
  • Coral flora

The best dive centres to explore Sardine Reef

Meridian Adventure Dive Resort

Raja Ampat | Indonesia
Meridian Adventure Dive Resort

Our opinion on The Meridian Adventure Dive Resort:

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Sardine Reef