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One grey sea cucumber with pinkish-brown ridged stripes lying on coral rubble beside a small brown coral head — Pulau Hantu & Singapore's Southern Islands

Pulau Hantu & Singapore's Southern Islands · Singapore · Reef · Muck & macro

North Jetty

Tiger tail seahorses and nudibranchs around the island's jetty

Area photo: Ria Tan from singapore · CC BY-SA 2.0

North Jetty is one of the two main dive sites on Pulau Hantu, dived from the jetty itself or along the fringing reef beside it. It is a slow, close-focus dive in short visibility, and divers come for the small life: nudibranchs, pufferfish, silver moonies and tiger tail seahorses.

Also known as Pulau Hantu North Jetty, The Jetty, Hantu Jetty.

Where it is and how deep

Depth profile of North Jetty: typical dive to 20 m (to 66 ft) 18 m · Open Water30 m · Advanced40 m · Recreational limit20 mtypical dive
Depths on a shared scale to 40 m (130 ft); dashed lines mark common certification limits.

1.2270° N, 103.7516° EApproximate position — the dashed circle shows where the site lies; your operator's briefing has the mooring.

The dive

Divers enter either at the jetty and work its structure, or drop onto the island reef next to it. Pulau Hantu is ringed by fringing reefs with a common reef flat in between, and the reef by the jetty is part of that ring. Across Hantu's two main sites, North Jetty and West Reef, the dive runs between 4 and 20 m. Visibility stays around 3 to 5 m through the year, so the dive is spent searching the reef close up for nudibranchs, pufferfish, silver moonies and tiger tail seahorses. On a good day the jetty has no current at all.

Marine life and season

  • Nudibranchs
  • Macro critters
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Season follows Pulau Hantu & Singapore's Southern Islands: Boats go to Hantu every weekend all year and no month stands out; Pulau Jong's strong currents call for a weather check in the monsoon season.

Know before you go

  • Visibility is short, usually 3 to 5 m, so buddies need to stay close on the reef.

Dive videos

Pulau Hantu North Jetty Diving with Silver Moony & Many-spotted Sweetlips · Global Avid Adventurer on YouTube

Sources

  1. Pulau Hantu North Jetty — ScubaGo
  2. Diving in Singapore — PADI Blog
  3. Trip Report 23 and 24 November 2013 — GS-Diving

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West Reef

Flat sandy bottom around the corner from the North Jetty

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