In May 2024 I spent a bit over two weeks diving in Tulamben before moving south to Amed for another week's diving. Both these places are on the north-eastern coast of Bali. While at Tulamben you virtually only do shore dives, most of the dives at Amed are boat dives. Some of these were back up towards Tulamben and some were even to the wreck of the USAT Liberty (which we declined to go on).

The main Amed dive sites are very close to the town and its nearby villages, just off the shore in reality. I stayed at the Hotel Uyah and used their associated dive shop Amed Dive Center which is on the premises.

Jemeluk Wall is a dive site that is about 2.1 kilometres east from the hotel. An approximate GPS mark for this dive is 8°20'14.125"S 115°39'43.052"E (using WGS84 as the datum).

A satellite photo from Google Earth that shows the location of the dive site Hotel Uyah is at far top left

It only takes about 10 minutes to get there by boat, but to be honest, the boat needed its bottom scraped of barnacles and weed, so it should have been about 7 minutes.

The site is at the eastern end of Jemeluk Beach and off the point. Once we descended, we went north to the slope and then east till the wall started. It runs north from here. We followed this at depth. At first it was more of a slope and then steeper. It goes down to at least 40 metres it seems.

The divers coming along the wall	Sponges and gorgonias on the wall

There were lots of small gorgonias and a few barrel sponges. There were also some larger pink gorgonias (but no pygmies), sponges and hard coral. It is a very nice wall. When the wall turned to the right, we came to near the top of the wall and headed back shallow to the boat.

We also saw some moray eels, a few nudibranchs and a ribbon eel. Part way along there was a mooring with a concrete square figure 8 holding it in place. There was also some steel rio for coral to grow on.

A large anemone with clownfish and gorgonia behind	A large gorgonia

Surprisingly, the swim back to the boat was a lot quicker than the outbound leg, we obviously cut a lot of distance out by doing this. It was good dive. The visibility was very good, 20 metres and the water was 28C.

A very large sponge	The 8 shaped concrete mooring block

Underwater photos from GoPro due to normal camera having problems.