Daily Diving Trip

Roger's Wreck

Situated just in front of the north reef in Salang, Roger's Wreck gets its name from one of the pioneer members of a dive centre in Tioman. Originally standing majestically as a wooden fishing vessel sunken in the mid 90s, now fairly degraded has become a pile of rubbles still hosts large schools of fishes, scorpionfish and occationally a jenkins whipray! Swim to the stern and you could still see the propeller and other fishes taking shelter around it. Ideal for first time wreck divers and for those conducting their PADI Advanced course.

Level: Advanced | Depth: 18m-26m

Highlight: WRECK, YELLOWTAIL BARRACUDA, Yellow tail fusliers, cuttlefish, nudibranch, skeleton shrimps, groupers AND JENKINS WHIPRAY

Viking Artificial Reef

Funded by the Viking Dive group and created by our own Marine Monkees crew in 2012. The Viking Reef offers something different from the local island sites. On the way to the artificial reef you swim past patches of hard corals, home to giant moray eels, white eyed moray eel, cuttlefish, pufferfish, emperor shrimp, different species of nudibranches, family of humphead parrotfish, passing turtle grazing on the reef and at night, abundance of nocturnal creatures like coral cat sharks, many types of shrimps and crabs. If you have the time and patience you could search for the frogfish. The Viking Reef itself is home to Batfish, Filefish and many more. Going a little deeper out of the bay you can find an old engine block home to a beautiful honeycomb eel.

Level: Beginner-Intermediate-Advanced | Depth: 6m-22m

Highlight: ARTIFICIAL REEF, FLABELLINA, chromodorididae, discodorididae, phyllidiidae, filefish, batfish, pufferfish, MORAY AND HONEY COMB EEL

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• Meet our playful resident honeycomb moray eel
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Salang Jetty

A surprising little dive site, big eyed scad fish in impressively huge numbers, giant moray eel, white eye moray, cuttlefish, yellowbox fish, pufferfish, electric ray, snake eels, stonefish, scorpionfish, skeleton shrimp, different types of nudibranchs, promfet flounder, soul fish, octopus and more. Passing turtle and baracudda searching for food under the jetty. If you are lucky you might see a glimpse of the elusive bobbit worm! Once in a while ghost pipefish has been spotted here. The jetty, although not the most natural back drop is a great place to spend time searching for your favourites all under one roof (jetty). This jetty is pretty old and the structure is not as it was originally so in mid 2022 work to reconstruct this jetty will commence. This massive project will take approximately 2 years to complete. During construction diving under and around the area will be unsafe.

Level: Beginner-Intermediate | Depth: 5m – 15m

Highlights: big eyed scad fish, promfet fish, yellow boxfish, FLABELLINA, chromodorididae, discodorididae, batfish, pufferfish, MORAY

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• School of fishes between the pillars of Salang jetty
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• Special delivery for Viking artifical reef
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• Skeleton shrimps hanging out on some rocks
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SALANG SOUTH REEF

South Reef is a sandy bottom with patches of healthy hard corals towards the most southern part. It is a sheltered dive site that offers fantastic visibility and is host to many small fishes such as damsel, parrotfish, sergeant major and angelfish, sea hare, cuttlefish, batfish, family of humphead parrotfish and on the rare occasion.. eagle ray. During night dive, swim away from the coral into the sandy bottom at the center of South Reef look out for bottom dwellers such as flounders, soul fish, stargazer and electric rays.

Level: Beginner | Depth: 5m – 15m

Highlights: REEF FISHES, ELECTRIC RAY, stargazer, flounder, soul fish

Soyak Island

Right outside Salang is this small island, it’s just a stone’s throw. It is near but not that near that you can dive there and back from the jetty, you’ll still need to take the speedboat out. Surrounded by healthy hard and soft corals, you can expect to see the curious starpufferfish, blue spotted stingray, turtles, lionfish, turtles, bumphead parrot fish, emperor fish, scorpionfish, chevron barracuda, nudibranch ie shawn the ship being one of them, occasional sharks and more.

The outer rim on the west of this island has depth well exceeding 30m, excellent spot for deep diving specialty course.

There is also an artificial reef sponsored by h2Oplus Malaysia and Hume Cement Sdn Bhd, planned, managed and built by Marine Monkees crew in back in 2013.

Level: Beginner-Advanced | Depth: 5m – 30m

Highlights: CHEVRON BARRACUDA, FLABELLINA, chromodorididae, discodorididae, phyllidiidae, limapontiidae, TURTLE

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• Look closely, and you might find something interesting behind every rock or leaf
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• Maintenance work on H20 artificial reef

KM Sipadan & Sawadee Wreck

The decommissioned Royal Navy warship KM Sipadan formerly known as KD Sri Sarawak was sunk on the 29th March 2012 to become an artificial reef. It lies at 30m, right next to the wooden Sawadee Wreck sunken in the late 90s. You can sometimes barely see the wreck due to the amount of fish schooling around it. It’s also home to lionfish and batfish. At 31.5m in length and 7m in width, it’s not the biggest but well worth the deep dive down to have a good look around a more modern wreck.

Level: Advanced | Depth: 30m

Highlights: WRECKs, SCHOOLS OF FISHES

Renggis

Just near to the main town Kampung Tekek, this small island is one of Tioman’s popular dive sites. Home to many blacktip reef sharks, barracuda and turtles, circumnavigating this island is a joy to behold. Hosting numerous types of hard corals that slope gently out on to a sandy bottom, you’ll be surprised how many varieties of aquatic life you will find. You see a treadmill underwater and a must for all new comers to this site to have a photo op with it.

Level: Beginner-Intermediate | Depth: 6m – 16m

Highlights: HARD CORAL, BLACKTIP SHARKS, BARACUDDA, turtles, STINGRAY, cuttlefish, Artificial reef

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• No time for gym? No problem, Renggis got you covered
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• Don't blink or else you might miss our resident black tip reef shark
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Malang Rock

A Marine Monkees’ favourite, Malang Rock never fails to please. Situated right next to Coral Island, this popular dive sight has it all. It has many different species of hard corals, sharks, turtles, nudibranchs and beautiful cascading rock formations to have an interesting easy swim throughs. Whale shark has been spotted here before although it is not a common sighting.

Level: Beginner | Depth: 5m – 16m

Highlights: healthy hard corals, NUDIBRANCH, SWIM-THROUGH, moray, turtle

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• Divers exploring one of the many swim-throughs in Batu Malang site
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• Swimming around a myriad of corals around

Fan Canyon

Situated on the North East side of Coral Island, this dive site boasts..as the name suggest..a plethora of huge sea fans. Along the way to the infamous fan canyon you will also see an abundant supply of schools of fish, barracuda, eels and at deeper levels for those who have a keen eye.. large stonefish.

Level: Beginner-Advanced | Depth: 8m-29m

Highlights: Giant Sea Fans

Chebeh

This island is surrounded by huge volcanic rock formations that provide brilliant swim-throughs to explore. Don’t get shocked if you see huge grouper under these rocks. Definitely for the adventurous types, Chebeh is surrounded by healthy hard and soft corals and boasts a large variety of aquatic life like plentiful reef fishes, schooling fishes, turtle, bumphead parrotfish, napoleon wrasse, barracuda, shark and if you’re lucky, between the months of March – October there have been sightings of whale sharks and dolphins (surface)!

Level: Beginner-Advanced | Depth: 5m->30m

Highlights: SWIM-THROUGHS, nudibranchs, turtle, gouper, , BARRACUDA, WHALE SHARK (IF YOU’RE REALLY LUCKY)

Labas

If you like having adventure diving under large rocks and swim-throughs searching for stuffs or just the feeling of going through dark areas, this is the dive site for you. You can spend the entire dive just discovering what’s hidden under the maze of rock formations. Labas also has beautiful coral gardens where you’ll find macro fanatics trying to get that special shot of one of many nudibranchs or other macro organisms that make Labas their home. Taking an underwater torch along will let you see many beautiful corals growing on the underside of the rocks and you might even find nembrotha nudibranch. Occasionally giant grouper, giant moray eel and giant barracuda has been seen taking shelther under those rocks.

Level: Beginner-Intermediate | Depth: 10m-18m

Highlights: SWIM-THROUGHS, NUDIBRANCH, MACRO LIFE, groupers

Tiger Reef

A submerged reef situated between Labas and Sepoi Island. This reef is a hidden gem, largely undisturbed due to exposure to stronger currents. Tiger Reef has beautiful sponges, soft corals and classic rock formations. You can find a large variety of nudibranch, bumphead parrotfish, trevally, mackerel, barracuda and less commonly seen fish like whale shark (if you’re really lucky).

Level: Advanced | Depth: 10m-27m

Highlights: PROLIFIC SPONGES, NUDIBRANCH, UNSPOILT NATURAL BEAUTY

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• Lucky enough to spot one of the rarest marine creature in Tioman
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Kador Bay

Not far away from Fan Canyon is this site. A less popular dive site, this bay has plenty to offer, from healthy corals to nice cascading rocks that plateau off at 20 meters. It is a good site to do your surface interval as it is protected from the element and because of this, diving here is very calm, a good site to enjoy slow dive with your buddies.

Level: Beginner-Intermediate | Depth: 5m-20m

Highlights: nudibranchs, moray eel, turtle, grouper

One Tree Bay

Just outside of Kador Bay lies One Tree Bay dive site. It is made up of rocks and boulders and it slopes down to about 18m. It houses creatures that like to hide from the outside world like groupers, eels, shrimps and others. Overall this dive site is easy to dive.

Level: Beginner-Intermediate | Depth: 5m-18m

Highlights: nudibranchs, moray eel, grouper

GUA LAYANG-LAYANG

North part of Tioman almost to its tip, this dive site is a hidden gem, largely undisturbed because it wasn’t promoted as a to-go-to dive site. Spotted here before were napoleon wrasse, bumphead parrotfish, lobster, reef fishes and beautiful array of healthy corals. There is a part that you find a wall that drops to 20m, occasionally at the deep part here temperature can be much colder.

Level: Beginner-Advanced | Depth: 5m-25m

Highlights: UNSPOILT NATURAL BEAUTY

TERDAU

Just a little north of Salang, this site was less popular with the diving community until the last few years it has picked up in popularity not just for Salang divers but from other villages from the south due to its easy to dive terrain and its healthy corals and marine life. Because of the bottom composition you are exposed to the ever changing tides and you’ll encounter some sort of drift in most of your dives here, nothing to worry about just drift with the current and enjoy the ride. Spotted here before were lobster, bumphead parrotfish, napoleon wrasse, huge grouper, nudibranch, cuttlefish, plenty of reef fishes.

Level: Beginner-Intermediate | Depth: 5m-18m

Highlights: UNSPOILT NATURAL BEAUTY

PIRATE REEF

Located in Tekek Bay area, this site has a shallow profile which is suitable for beginner divers. A few metres towards the north, and you will find an artifical reef, part of a coral conservation project by DHL. Some form of marine life including hawskbill turtles, yellow fined barracuda,nudibranchs, sand eels, cuttlefish.

Level: Beginner-Intermediate | Depth: 5m-14m

Highlights: ARTIFICIAL REEF