Wealth of natural resources Raja Ampat Islands is a place that has the potential to serve as a tourist attraction, especially tourist dives. Raja Ampat Islands waters according to various sources, is one of the 10 best waters for diving sites around the world. In fact, it may also be recognized as number one for the completeness of flora and fauna under water at this time. Dr. John Veron, coral experienced experts from Australia, for example, in a site it is revealed, the Raja Ampat Islands located at the westernmost tip of the island of Papua, around 50 miles northwest of Sorong, has the best coral regions in Indonesia. About 450 species of coral had been identified during the two weeks of research in that area. A team of experts from Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy, and the National Institute of Oceanography (LON) Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) ever do a quick assessment in 2001 and 2002. As a result, they noted in these waters there are more than 540 species of hard corals (75% of total species in the world), more than 1,000 species of reef fish, 700 species of molluscs, and the highest note for gonodactyloid stomatopod crustaceans. It makes 75% of the world's coral species are in Raja Ampat. None of the places in the same area has a number of coral species as much as this. There are some reefs are still very good condition with the percentage of live coral cover up to 90%, ie in the Strait Dampier (the strait between the island Waigeo and Batanta Island), Islands Kofiau , archipelagic Southeast Misool and Wayag Islands. Types of coral reefs in Raja Ampat is a fringing reef generally to the contours of the steep ramps up. But it also found the type of atoll and the type of charred or taka. In some places such as the village Saondarek, when the lowest tides, can be seen coral reefs without diving and with his own adaptation, corals can still be alive despite being in the open air and exposed to direct sunlight. Unique species that can be found when diving is some kind of dwarf sea horse, wobbegong, fish and manta rays. Also there are endemic fish Raja Ampat, namely Eviota king, which is a kind of fish gobbie. At Manta Point which is located in Dampier strait Arborek, you can dive in the company of some tail Manta Rays are benign like when you dive in Derawan Islands, East Kalimantan. If the dive at Cape Kri or Chicken Reef, you can be surrounded by thousands of fish. Sometimes a collection of tuna, giant trevallies and snappers. But stressful when we are surrounded by a collection of barracuda, even though it is relatively harmless (which is dangerous if we see a solitary barracuda or alone). Reef sharks are also frequently seen, and if you are lucky you can also see turtles were silent eating sponge or swim around you. In some places, such as Salawati, Batanta and Waigeo also seen dugong or sea cow. Because the area of many islands and narrow straits, then most of the dive at any given time has a strong current. It is also possible to do a drift dive, dive, followed by a strong current of water is very clear as he broke through collection of fish
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