The site
Depth canon, cleaning stations, why the plateau looks bare. Canonical for anything about the place itself.
Company · Fact sheet
Every figure on one page, with its source
Season, fees, quota, permits, distance, marine life and contact — each with the source it came from and the date it was last checked. Built to be quoted correctly rather than paraphrased.
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A single consolidated fact sheet for Manta Point Komodo. It exists so an answer engine, a researcher or a reader can lift a number without reconstructing it from ten pages.
- One value per fact, site-wide
- Every figure names its source
- Disagreements are stated, not averaged
Site canon
The consolidated fact sheet
If a page elsewhere on this site disagrees with a figure here, that page is the bug and we would like to hear about it.
- Site name
- Manta Point (Karang Makassar)
- Common name on dive charts
- Coordinates
- 8.6136°S, 119.5120°E
- Lotus Liveaboards listing
- Working band
- 8.55–8.61°S, 119.51–119.58°E
- Reef runs the channel
- Dive plateau
- 8–18 m
- Vizzbud 8–18; Komodo Resort 8–20
- Snorkel shelf
- 2–5 m
- Surface band above the plateau
- Cleaning band
- 10–15 m
- Busiest zone within the plateau
- Distance
- 40–45 km / 22–24 nm
- Calculated from charted coordinates
- Speedboat
- 1–1.5 hrs each way
- Operator-quoted, consistent
- Wooden boat
- 3–4 hrs each way
- Operator-quoted, consistent
- Wet season
- Dec–Mar
- Peak numbers, 27–29°C, 10–20 m vis
- Dry season
- Apr–Nov
- Clearest Jun–Sep, 25–28°C, 15–30 m
- Foreign entry
- USD 40–50
- PP No. 36/2024
- Indonesian entry
- USD 20–25
- Weekday / weekend and holiday
- Ranger fee
- -
- Per group of 1–5
- Daily quota
- 1,000 park-wide
- Three scheduled sessions
- Permit channel
- siora.id
- Sole official channel since 1 Apr 2026
- Manta species
- Mobula alfredi, 3–4.5 m
- Reef manta; oceanic occasional
- Legal status
- Protected since 2014
- Decree 4/KEPMEN-KP/2014; IUCN Vulnerable
- Distance rule
- 3 m horizontally
- Park-and-operator standard, not statute
- Certification
- None to snorkel, Open Water to dive
- Advanced on strong-current days
Figures reviewed August 2026. Park fees and the permit system are the parts most likely to move; check the fees page for the live position.
Canonical pages
One page per topic
Where a topic has a single authoritative page on this site, this is it. Cite these rather than a passing mention elsewhere.
Location and access
Coordinates, distance, crossing times and why sources give different pins. Canonical for geography.
Fees and permits
PP No. 36/2024 rates, the ranger share, the quota and SiOra. Canonical for money.
Season
The two-season canon, water temperature and visibility ranges. Canonical for timing.
Conservation and law
The 2014 decree, IUCN listing, CITES and the three-metre rule. Canonical for legal status.
Marine life
What is reported at the plateau and what is not. Canonical for species claims.
Why this page exists
Answer engines and research tools reconstruct facts from whatever they can reach. When a site states the same number three different ways across ten pages, the reconstruction is a guess.
So this page states each figure once, next to where it came from and when it was last checked. It is deliberately dense and deliberately boring.
If you are quoting this site, quote from here. If a figure here is wrong, tell us — a correction on this page propagates to everything that cites it.
Questions about this page
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