Blue Magic

Blue Magic is a well-known seamount dive site in Raja Ampat, off the Dampier Strait area of Papua Barat, Indonesia. It is a popular cleaning station site, drawing manta rays that pause over the cleaning stations on top of the pinnacle, along with schooling fusiliers, fusilier-hunting trevally and tuna passing through the water column. The site rises from deeper water to a top that divers commonly hover around, reaching a maximum depth of around 30 metres, and is rated an intermediate dive. Current sweeping over the pinnacle can pick up, which is part of why some experience with current is useful here. It is one of the more frequently dived pinnacles in the Dampier Strait, often visited from liveaboards and resorts based around Raja Ampat.

Confirmed by our research team, reported by independent divers, or observed nearby via iNaturalist — each entry is labelled with its source.

• Midnight SnapperMacolor macularisReported here · unconfirmed
• Clown TriggerfishBalistoides conspicillumReported here · unconfirmed
• Clark's AnemonefishAmphiprion clarkiiReported here · unconfirmed
• Giant MorayGymnothorax javanicusReported here · unconfirmed
• Napoleon WrasseCheilinus undulatusReported here · unconfirmed
• Ribbon SweetlipsPlectorhinchus polytaeniaReported here · unconfirmed
• Moluccan Bluespotted MaskrayNeotrygon moluccensisReported here · unconfirmed
• Shadowfin SoldierfishMyripristis adustaReported here · unconfirmed