Cenderawasih Bay

Whalesharks & Wrecks: Manokwari-Manokwari

Disclaimer: Itineraries are only orientative and might be modified due to weather conditions, sea conditions and other external causes.

• DAY 1: Pick up at Manokwari airport, transfer to the boat, welcome drink and accommodation. Check dive in the afternoon at one of the WWII Japanese wrecks in Manokwari Bay. Overnight sail to Pulau Roon.
• DAY 2: We will spend the day diving around Pulau Roon, Pulau Auri and Pulau Sodompari. We’ll also dive the remains of a Zero plane wreck in the south of Pulau Roon. Overnight sail to Kwatisore.
• DAY 3: Dive the bagans (fishing outriggers where whalesharks come to feed on scraps from the night catch of little anchovies) with whale sharks in the Kwatisore area.
• DAY 4: Dive around Tanjung Mangguar and muck diving in Nepanyaur Bay in the afternoon.
• DAY 5: Wall diving in the atolls, in Spag Point and Wild Fish Ridge. In the afternoon will dive in Pulau Rouw, where we’ll walk along the beach and snorkel in three P-38 WWII planes laying in front of the beach in just 1 meter of water.
• DAY 6: Full diving day around the islands of Sewadeh with plenty schooling fish and reef sharks, and Slamipien with stunning hard coral garden in shallow waters. Overnight sail to Numfor.
• DAY 7: We’ll do the first dive of the morning in the southeast coast of Numfor before we move to Pulau Manim to spend the rest of the day diving in 8 different landing craft from WWII. We’ll walk along the white sand beach. Overnight sail to Manokwari.
• DAY 8: Two morning dives in two of the Japanese WWII wrecks in the Manokwari Bay. Preparation for departure the morning after.

*If once on board the groups wants to do an additional day at the whalesharks it can be traded by one of the last diving day in the wrecks of Manokwari.