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Raja Ampat Islands is a place that has the potential to be used as a tourist attraction, especially diving tour. Raja Ampat Islands waters according to various sources, is one of the 10 best waters for diving in the world. In fact, it can also be recognized as the leader in the completeness of the flora and fauna underwater right now.
Dr. John Veron, coral experienced experts from Australia, for example, in a site, it is revealed, Raja Ampat Islands, located in the western end of the island of Papua, about 50 miles northwest of Sorong have the best coral regions in Indonesia. 450 coral species have been identified during the two weeks of research in this area.
A team of experts from Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy and the National Institute of Oceanography (LON) Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) never carry out rapid assessments in 2001 and 2002. As a result, they are noted in these waters there are more than 540 types of hard corals (75% of all species in the world), more than 1,000 species of reef fish, 700 species of molluscs, and the highest record for crustaceans stomatopods gonodactyloid. It makes 75% of coral species on the planet are in Raja Ampat. No of places with the same area has a number of coral species as much as that.
There are some reefs are still very good condition with the percentage of live coral cover up to 90%, which is in the Dampier Strait (the strait between the island and the island Waigeo Batanta) Kofiau Islands, Misool archipelago South and Wayag islands. Types of coral reefs in Raja Ampat is generally fringing reef with ramps the steep contours. But also found the type of atoll and type of charred or taka. In some places such as the village Saondarek when the lowest tides, coral reefs can be seen without diving and with his own adaptation, corals are still alive despite being outdoors and exposed to direct sunlight.
Single species that can be found when diving is a kind of dwarf seahorse, wobbegongs, manta rays and fish. There is also a fish endemic to Raja Ampat, namely Eviota King, who is a kind of Gobbie fish. At Manta Point, which is located in Arborek Dampier Strait, you can dive with some manta rays are benign tail like when you dive in Derawan Islands, East Kalimantan. If diving in Cape Kri or Chicken Reef, you can be surrounded by thousands of fish. Sometimes a collection of tuna, giant trevally and snapper. But stressful if we are surrounded by a collection of barracuda, although it is relatively harmless (dangerous if we see lonely or alone barracuda). Reef sharks are also frequently observed, and if you are lucky you can also see the turtles were quietly eating sponge or swim around you. In some places, such as Salawati, Batanta and Waigeo also seen cow dugong or sea.
Because the area many islands and straits, then most of the dive at one time was a strong current. It is also possible to make a drift dive, diving, followed by a strong current of water is very clear as he escaped from fish.
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