THALASSA DIVE CENTER
WHO WE ARE
We are a 5-Star PADI IDC Center located at the Santika 4-Star Hotel —
Hotel Santika is the only 4-Star resort in Manado. Just a 30-minute
drive from Manado and 40-minutes from the airport, it's the closest
dive resort to Bunaken National Park.
We offer dive trips and dive courses in North Sulawesi, one of the best dive areas in the world.
Flexibility is our key word, combined with our high safety standards, environmental awareness and friendly, service-minded and professional staff. We are fluent, and can conduct our courses, in Indonesian, English, German, Dutch, Japanese and Chinese. We also have basic knowledge of French.
WHAT'S SPECIAL ABOUT US?We ensure that our guests experience a 'free & easy' holiday. Besides diving and snorkelling we offer a one-stop booking service for accommodation, liveaboard excursions and a selection of tours. Due to our unique location in the middle of the National Park of Bunaken and our 8 dive boats, we can offer up to 5 dives per day, in any possible combination. This unique flexibility makes our resort the perfect place for both "fanatical" divers as well as families with small children or non-diving partners.
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WHAT TO EXPECT
Diving
Big Animals, Mangroves, Muck, Reef, Snorkelling, Wrecks
Special attractions
Diving in 4 different environments.
- Diving along huge walls, strewn with hard and soft corals, crowded with schooling fish and small critters. Expect encounters with sharks, turtles, barracudas, batfish, trevally, rays and minute pygmy seahorses.
- The south side of the park is called Popooh. Here, in a patch of shallow sea grass you will encounter seahorses, nudibranchs and Rhinopias.
- High voltage diving around Bangka. Exciting encounters with schooling fish — along with cuttlefish, frogfish and juvenile sharks. Great for wide-angle photography.
- Critter diving in Lembeh Strait. Endless macro opportunities make this a photographers' paradise.
- Our boat, Thalassa 12, offers a unique new product in the area; a "sleep-on board" package, a maximum of 8 guests make a short trip to the more remote areas, opening up the selection of night diving locations. A BBQ on the beach in the evening makes this adventure complete.
Dives per day
Up to 5 dives per day
Average divers per guide
Maximum of 4
Divers per boat
Maximum of 14 divers on our 22 m boat
Night dives
Yes
Nitrox
No
Season
* year-round diving is available
Average water temperature
27-29°C
Diving instruction
Yes
Gear rental
Yes
Maximum number of guests
80 guests divided over 8 boats
Aircon
Yes
Childcare facilities
Yes
Non-diving activities
Horse riding, jungle hiking, land tours, rafting, sightseeing
Internet access
Yes
E-6 processing
Yes
Digital editing facilities
Yes