Dive&Snorkel

“HOTPlanet Scuba” has opened up one of the most beautiful dive regions in the world. These virgin diving locations in South-east Lombok are found where no other company has been! HOTPlanet Scuba with Heaven on the Planet and Ocean Heaven will show you a myriad of underwater wonders in the pristine seas of South-east Lombok.

“Big Blue’’  Our amazing underwater island is one mile offshore and completely submerged … a hidden secret! IT’S BIG! Giant coral walls with 80 m drop offs, beautiful sea fans and crusing big palagics. We’ve already found Mola Mola (Giant Sunfish), Black-spotted Stingray, White and Black-tip Reef Sharks, Napoleon Wrasse, Groupers and Bottle-Nose Dolphins! And all the tropical fish, of course.  This site is near the Alas Strait … the ocean current that links the Pacific to the Indian Ocean carrying endless nutrients. Unspoiled, well fed and in the tropics!!! … no wonder Big Blue is world class.

“ Adventure playgrounds’’ Just within Ekas Bay, we have large rock boulders covered in coral hiding Scorpion fish to Lion fish, Morey eels and Mantis shrimp. 10-15 m wall with swirly plant decorations. Blue-spotted stingray, and crocodile fish lurking in small caves.

“Nudi Heaven” Beautiful nudi branches, plus more rock bommies with hidden creatures and millions of yellow sea cucumbers. Angel fish, Clown fish, Butterfly fish, Parrot and the usual Indo tropical delights.

“Ekas Coral Garden’’ 2-3 m deep lush coral garden with hard and soft corals over 2 km2. Cabbage, Branching, Elephant Ears, Brain and 100-year-old Table corals. A fabulous and safe/easy dive site, perfect for Introductory lessons on scuba or a romantic dive. We do snorkling trips here too – it’s beautiful.

“The North-East”. Guided overnight tours to the coral wonders surrounding the mangrove islands off north-east Lombok.

Our PADI Instructor can do Introductory Dives, or the full 3-4 day Open Water Course to make you a certified diver. She does refresher courses for the forgetful certified guests!  Diving includes vessel, all equipment, fruit, drinking water and towels, with PADI Instructor as your guide.

A message from one of our dive instructors

Hello,  two years ago while travelling through Lombok, I heard rumors of a piece of paradise up on a cliff, with views one could only dream of. So I went in search of this place, travelling through the wilderness and countryside, to eventually find ‘Heaven’. Originally going for a day’s exploration I ended up staying five, and found it hard to drag myself away. A year later, I returned to Lombok especially to go to Heaven with my friend. It was then that I met the lovely owners Kerry and Moira. I learned about their vision over the years, to create such a beautiful resort that could do the place justice and to give their guests a complete package of ambiance and relaxation in sync with nature’s finest accomplishments. And this is what you see today. Eventually in our conversations we got onto the subject of scuba diving. They were both big fans. It turned out they had all the gear and that Ekas Bay was holding some gems under the sea as well! They took me 10 minutes by their boat to what they call the snorkelling reef. To my amazement, I discovered this vast colourful reef, full of beautiful table coral dating back hundreds of years, along with cabbage, elephant ears, branching, brain and encrusting hard and soft corals. I had not encountered the greenery of some of these in this coral garden anywhere else in Indo after diving all over for the last 2 years! I went on an exploratory dive, bumping into a massive school of baby parrot fish, showing off their multi colours. I found some beautiful nudi branch’s (trippy coloured sea slugs), lion fish, Moorish idols, bat fish, and a whole host of other Indonesian tropical fish. On one tank, I could have lasted an hour or more, because all of this was found at around 2-3m depth! A coral garden such as this one is a rare find indeed. And having it all to myself was a diving pleasure. It reminded me why I got into scuba diving in the first place; to feel free, and absorb myself in this underwater world. I told them how perfect this shallow reef would be for introductory lessons on scuba. At only a max of 3m, it is a perfectly safe place to take people for their first time, with none of the diving dangers. Kerry then told me of a deep dive site that followed the cliffs down on the other side of the Bay. So we headed out to try and find a mysterious coral wall that some marine biologist friends had stumbled across a few years earlier. After a couple of beautiful dives with coral slopes, morey eels hiding in crevices blue spotted sting rays gliding by, and a massive array of Indonesian tropical fish including royal angel, 4 banded angel, harlequin clown and many nemos, we eventually found the wall! The slope contour took us round a corner and Kerry and I at the time had heads buried in our own coral bommies distracted by whatever creatures had caught our attention. Like hunting sharks we moved our noses round the corner to see this lovely little drop off appear in front of us. I can’t tell you how excited I was to discover this first hand!  Coming out of it, as if dressed up for the surprise, were crazy swirly plant streamers and multi coloured wild plant life decorating it.  At 22m, I found 2 dancing lion fish showing off their plume, and shortly after a cheeky mantis shrimp dived into a hole beside me. When we surfaced we were buzzing with excitement. I later named this site ‘Nudi Haven’ because of the bright yellow nudi branches dancing weirdly in their thousands at this place. A few months later, I got the call from Kerry offering me my dream job. It took me 5 seconds to say yes, and I was there with all my worldly belongings 3 days later. I enjoyed 5 months of introducing people ages from 12 – 60 to scuba diving, and they all loved it. I had couples holding hands and cruising along in romantic bliss, for their first dive ever, and nearly all said they would return to their country and do the course, because they were hooked. For experienced divers of Open Water certificate or higher, I took them to nudi heaven, and we had some lovely encounters with a marble and eagle rays,  a baby reef shark, bump head parrot fish, hunting sea snake, and the biggest morey eel I have ever seen! All these guys were passing by nudi heaven and other parts of the cliffs on different days. The contours of nudi heaven make for a real adventurist site as well, with huge boulders broken off from the cliffs hundreds of years ago, that are now covered in multi-coloured plants. It’s great! It is a rare privilege to dive with no other boats around dropping off their divers, to block your views. With just 6 tanks we never have big groups, so you can have your own intimate discovery for yourself. The equipment is all new and with a Padi Instructor as your guide, we are serious about your safety. That’s the only thing we’re serious about in Heaven. Come see for yourselves.