Miri Reef - Miri Sarawak

The Miri Reef is one of Malaysia’s most recent discovered diving locations. Within this patch of reefs at varying depths and is comfortable for beginners as well as advanced divers. Most of the time, there is no current and the average visibility is between 10 to 30 metres. Some of the deeper dive sites can have the visibility of 40 metres. There is a variety of coral and marine life that rivals the best anywhere in Borneo.

Just 30 minutes boat ride away from the Miri River mouth is the golden triangle of underwater haven. Some of these coral reefs have been earmarked for scuba diving and their reefs are compatible with other world-renowned dive sites.

The dive sites include drop-offs, reefs and shipwrecks, offering, offering divers sights of colourful hard and soft coral formations. Marine life in the area include butterflyfish, clownfish, filefish, angelfish, basslets, grunts, sea fan, sponges, crustaceans such as shrimps, crabs and lobsters.

There are several diving sites available at the Miri Reef. The Sri Gadong Wreck is a small 100-foot cargo ship carrying sawn timber is sitting on a 60-foot sand bottom. The whole wreck is teaming with fish life.

The Grouper Patch is where giant groupers inhabit this 60-foot reef. Spiny lobsters are also another inhabitant together with yellow tails and other schooling fishes.

At the Santak Point, the average visibility here is 100-feet or more. Large gorgonian fans of 6-feet in size are all over the top of the reef at 70-feet. The reef extends drops to 110-feet.

The Sunday Reef has large varieties of hard corals make up this 35 to 50 foot reef inhabited with anemones, clown fishes and Nudibranchs.

The Anemone Garden is one of the most interesting reefs with a depth range of 30 to 50 feet. Both hard and soft corals thrive here.

The Atago Maru Wreck is a Second World War Japanese wreck just off Lutong. The 300-foot ship is sitting upright with the top deck just 30-feet from the surface.