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Wai Nilu
★★★★☆
(1,082)
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
Top Wildlife Sightings
Wildlife Sightings are Based on User Generated Content
Alamy-WaterFrame
50 Sightings
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9
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15
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13
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3
Alamy/Reinhard Dirscherl
Octopus
42 Sightings
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6
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6
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12
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8
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9
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SSI-Peter-Schinck
Nudibranch
199 Sightings
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13
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25
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24
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25
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8
Alamy-WaterFrame
Common Seahorse
140 Sightings
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25
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14
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3
Shutterstock-Shane Gross
Shrimp
135 Sightings
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5
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11
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13
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18
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15
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11
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18
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15
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6
iStock/cinoby
Lionfish
133 Sightings
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5
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14
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21
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5
iStock-Michael Zeigler
Crab
128 Sightings
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13
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18
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8
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5
iStock-Christian von Mach
Pipefish
82 Sightings
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4
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6
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13
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15
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9
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11
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8
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SSI-Peter-Schinck
Cuttlefish
77 Sightings
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3
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7
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6
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14
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14
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9
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9
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10
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3
iStock-Miguel-Angelo-Silva.
Scorpionfish
66 Sightings
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5
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15
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11
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4