Wai Nilu
★★★★☆
(1,036)
Wainilu, located close to Rinca Island, is a famous dive spot amongst “muck-diving” lovers and photographers. This is a rather shallow dive in dead coral, sand, and rubble, and surprises divers with weird and amazing critters. A great place for macro diving so don’t forget your camera.
Divers can find nudibranchs, different types of mantis shrimp, pipefishes, frogfish, seahorse, blue ring octopus, or even a mimic octopus, Ribbon eel, Frogfish, Dragonets, Wunderpus,Zebra crab, Coleman shrimp, Harlequin shrimp, Nudibranchs, Snake eel, Flying gurnard, Ghost pipe seahorseand Mandarin fish.
Dive Activity & Environmental Conditions
Top Wildlife Sightings
Most frequently spotted marine life based on dive logs
#1
Nudibranch
194
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#2
Common Seahorse
135
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#3
Shrimp
135
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#4
Lionfish
131
Total Sightings
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#5
Crab
126
Total Sightings
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#6
Cuttlefish
84
Total Sightings
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M
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#7
Pipefish
82
Total Sightings
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M
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#8
Scorpionfish
66
Total Sightings
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M
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#9
Moray Eel
57
Total Sightings
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M
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#10
Octopus
42
Total Sightings
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