Supported by scientific facts, Raja Ampat is the richest reefs system in the world. After two scientific surveys were conducted Conservation International and The Nature Conservancy in 2001 and 2002 respectively, coral expert John Vernon, Raja Ampat declared that Raja Ampat had a higher density of species than anywhere else in the world. The world’s top ichthyologist Dr. Gerry Allen broke his own record twice in Raja Ampat for number of species recorded on a single dive. Before diving in the Raja Ampat area his record was 204 different species recorded in Milne Bay in Papua New Guinea. In 2001, he documented 283 species of coral fish at Cape Kri. Then, during the 2002 near the island of Kofiau, he set a new personal record by documenting 284 species during one dive. This is the coral reefs final frontier. I have been there 4 times and I am going back in 2005 – this time with the a very special guest and a very special boat – the MV Pelagian; undoubtedly one of the best live-aboard in the world

Facts about Raja Ampat It is in Indonesia

Dive types Marine Life

Images taken on this dive site

by Nedip Emin
Do you wanna have a kiss? A beautifull image of a pygmy seahorse bargibanti

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by Nedip Emin
looks like from out of space.... a picture of a very wonderful nudibranch flabelina exoptata.

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by Nedip Emin
Do you like my outfit? An beautiful image of a colourful flasher wrasse. They are so diffucult to catch on a picture cause of their constant fast moving.

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by Jeannette Howard
pair of lion fish taken in Raj Ampat: Nikon D70

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by Tony Makin
PYGMY SEA HORSE NIKON F90 60 MACRO 2X CONVERTER

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by Jeannette Howard
Sad Face Blenny:) Stop looking at me!!

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by Jeannette Howard
Underwater Love!

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by Iman Brotoseno
Flying Wobegong Shark, from Rajaampat , Papua - Indonesia

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by Nazir Amin
Manta on Black, Raja Ampat

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by Nazir Amin
School of Jackfish

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by Carl Gennaro
Baby cuttle fish

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by Tunc Yavuzdogan
Black Mantas on final approach !!

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by Tunc Yavuzdogan
Eye to eye ...

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by Tunc Yavuzdogan
The Passage :)

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by Tunc Yavuzdogan
Sun Set at Kri Island

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by Tunc Yavuzdogan
Black Manta ,Close encounter...

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by Tunc Yavuzdogan
Ooooh Pick me, No Pick Me , me Please ......

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by Tunc Yavuzdogan
Flower Pot ...

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by Giuseppe Piccioli
Slow motion

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by Giuseppe Piccioli
Along the soft coral

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by Patrick Burke
Pseudoceros Ferrugineus taken in Raja Ampat

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by Sinan Oztan
This shot was taken on an island at Raja Ampat while we dropped for surface time...

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by Tunc Yavuzdogan
Snorkeling at the mangroves 2 :)

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by Giuseppe Piccioli
Towards the surface

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by Sinan Oztan
A shot from the passage at Raja Ampat

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by Tony Makin
Emperor shrimp on a sea cumber

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by Tunc Yavuzdogan
They get in everywhere...

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by Tunc Yavuzdogan
We played hide and seek till got this shot of him :)

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by Sinan Oztan
Reflection of a white tube worm on a coral at Wasrer Reef, Raja Ampat

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by Tony Makin
Puppy dog

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by Tony Makin
Pipefish on hard coral

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by Tunc Yavuzdogan
Mike's Point ....

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by Tony Makin
Black saddled Toby

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by Tony Makin
Crab on soft coral

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by Tony Makin
Moray eel

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by Nazir Amin
Manta on Black.. Water reflection created using photoshop

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by Tony Makin
Wobegong on the move

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by Henry Jager
"Chromodoris leopardus"

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by Reidar Opem
Hiding

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by Tunc Yavuzdogan
Mixed Up ?

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by Jeannette Howard
Anemone fish ~ Raja Ampat

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by Tunc Yavuzdogan
Flying trough the Rain Forest..

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