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With the US Liberty wreck lying on a black sand bed, Tulamben is the most famous dive site in Bali and offers an amazing variety and density of underwater life.
Early morning 1942, while the cargo was shipping war materiel from Australia to Philippine, the ship took torpedo from a Japanese submarine in the Lombok straight.
The Liberty has been towed to Singaraja but the damaged ship took on to much water and was beached in Tulamben. In 1963, Bali’s highest and most holy mountain eruption created an earthquake, which rolled the ship into the water… |
Journey (from seminyak): 2h30 bus
Type of dive: Coral reef, wall diving, shore diving, wreck diving
Visibility: 10 to 25 m
Water T°: 27°C to 30°C
Current: none to weak
Max. Depth: 40 m
Average depth: 20 m
Min. level: none
Aquatic life: Nudibranchs, Leaf Scorpion fish, Ribbon Eel, Ghost Pipefish, Napoleon Wrasse, Bumphead Parrotfish, Surgeonfish, Pygmy Seahorse, Blacktip reef Shark
Comments: “Certainly one of the top beach dive site in the world” –SportDiver – Dive Destination 2003 |
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