South Sulawesi Tanjung Bira Dive Trip

Dive the reef off Tanjung Bira, at the southern tip of South Sulawesi, with GaiaOne's Ocean Gardener team, the same people who plant and maintain its coral. This guided fun dive starts from Bara Beach and works through the house reef's coral gardens and restoration nurseries, with no more than four divers per guide. Book a single dive or line up several across your stay, each priced at $90.

You descend beside rows of young coral fragments set out on the nursery structures, then fin over the established gardens these transplants are meant to rejoin. Your guide is one of the gardeners, so you hear which colonies started life in the nursery and how they are faring. Watch the reef edges for Tortelluna and Kara, the two turtles that live here, and slow down over fresh growth, where small reef life settles first.

Trip Highlights & Key Regional Features

• Dive the coral restoration nurseries planted and tended by GaiaOne's Ocean Gardener team
• Look for Tortelluna and Kara, the resident turtles of the Tevana house reef
• Explore coral gardens, walls and wrecks a few minutes from shore
• Dive in small groups of no more than four divers per guide
• Start from a network of 15 dive sites along the Bira coast, from the house reef to deep walls with pelagic life
• Add a coral adoption and have a fragment planted on the nursery in your name