Toward evening, seemed exotic panorama while sitting on the Beach Duct Tape, a white sand, watching the sun sink in the ocean blue. "Sitting on the beach alone has fueled adrenaline, how it feels when diving," said Angelika Batuna, diving tourism pioneer of Buyat Bay.
Bids dive tonight, says Angelika, attract foreign tourists. With a calm sea conditions, divers can plunge themselves into the sea to watch marine life that is only visible at night.
For divers, not just North Sulawesi overlooking the sea at Molas (Shipwreck), Bunaken (reefwall), and Lembeh. Buyat Bay is also preparing a fantastic sea treats.
To get to the bay in Southeast Minahasa within 150 kilometers from Manado can be reached by land travel for three hours. If divers want to come here through the Lembeh, need a travel time of three hours by speedboat.
But, says Angelika, foreign tourists usually take a diving tour packages two places, namely the morning in Lembeh, Bitung, then lunch at Buyat Bay. Throughout the three-hour trip from Lembeh, foreign tourists can enjoy the beautiful sea and south coast beaches. "Tourists can enjoy the sea and the beach is very beautiful Kema," he said.
Rows of clear water and coral reefs with the rapid growth of hard corals (hard corals) is very large is the typical character of Buyat Bay.
Acropora is the limit as far as the eye could see stretched, layered table corals, brain corals and magnitude can be seen from the sea surface, describing the beauty of Buyat Bay are still rarely touched by civilization. Acropora is one of the major reef building.
Ricky Rush Kurniawan photographer in a magazine called Discovery Dive is a dive spot Buyat Bay "hottest", to be the best alternative after Bunaken and Lembeh dive. Lembeh island itself store a variety of marine biodiversity. There are marine life that resembles an octopus, octopus chameleon.
Diving in Buyat Bay like stepping back into the past. Wealth of coral reefs as a place that has not been demonstrated touched by civilization in a very long time.
Andy Martinez, a British photographer who has documented more than 5,000 photographs of the underwater world, divers feel as the first witness the beauty and color of the sea bottom of Buyat Bay.
"I am very busy with abundant opportunities to take pictures," said Martinez when diving at Buyat Bay in 2009.
Martinez Crittersatbuyat Internet site called lucky to see the pool pristine coral reefs. There are areas of Acropora that extends the width of 18.29 meters and 45.72 meters in perfect conditions, as well as 3.05-meter-wide table coral.
Continue diving along the fertile slopes and hard corals can be found Gorgonia pink, red, or orange, covered with crinoids, lily-shaped marine animals. Gorgonia is also known as sea whips or sea fans and sea pens are similar to, soft coral.
"The bottom is sandy habitat for red tree coral sea whips a gentle giant and red muscle. Breeding season, the yellow cardinal fish and coral heads around the sponge. Colors and forms of life that is really magical. If you have a mood, diving at Buyat Bay area would be refreshing, "said Martinez, who has traveled the world photographing beautiful tropical islands of the Indian Ocean to the Caribbean Sea.
Seven years ago, sea conditions and the Gulf Ratatotok Buyat Bay in North Sulawesi, according to environmental activists, severely damaged by the dumping of mine waste (tailings) by PT Newmont Minahasa Raya (NMR).
NMR was charged as a destroyer of biodiversity of marine life in the arsenic pollution of Buyat Bay. Therefore, environmental activists and the government asked for the gold mining company is responsible, among others, by restoring the marine environment is beautiful as always.
NMR reverse accusations, act strategically by planting 3000 reefball (rock ball) around Buyat Bay and the Gulf Ratatotok. "Reefball that we grow along with the divers in 2000. The result can be seen now, various kinds of ornamental fish or fishermen catch fish back into the Gulf, "said David Sompie, President Director of PT NMR.
With reefball, the fishermen do not have to look for fish up to miles and miles of ocean for almost all the fish they need right around Buyat Bay.
Dr Amin Subandrio from the University of Indonesia and Dr. Magdalena Irene Umboh from Manado State University team from the Independent Scientific Panel (PII) in 2011 launched a four-year study. They called, did not show any negative impact from the placement of tailings in Buyat Bay seabed to the marine environment and human health.
Similarly, marine water quality. Concentration parameter is far below the threshold of Indonesia's marine water quality standards of the most stringent marine life and therefore do not indicate adverse effects of marine ecosystems.
Monitoring results PII directly supervised by the Ministry of Research and Technology to be disclosed to the public each year from 2006 to 2016.
Within a decade, incredible coral grows. A variety of ornamental fish play here, including clown fish clownfish or.
A variety of marine life at depths of 20 meters, including a type of sea hare (nudibranchs), starfish (star fish), stalk coral (Acropora), sea fans (sea fan), anemones, soft coral, table coral, reef fish, damsel fish, sweet lips fish, bat fish, as well as schools of fish (schooling fish) species of small pelagic fish such as yellow tail.
Every weekend, the foreign divers visited Buyat Bay, on average, amounted to 10-20 people. They generally have started looking for a dive spot not too crowded visited by divers. Well, Buyat Bay, in their opinion, be an option, because in this region there are at least 24 beautiful dive spot, among others, on the Island End-breaking, Island Poison and Bone Island. What are you waiting?
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