Togian Islands · Indonesia · Reef
Jam
Reef network from 30 m down to a small wreck at 10 m
Area photo: Arian Zwegers · CC BY 2.0
Jam is a network of reef between the Sanctum Una Una house reef and Pinnacle 1, dived from 30 m at the deep end and finishing on a small unidentified wreck at around 10 m. It is a linking dive as much as a destination, and the boat ride out to it is about two minutes.
Where it is and how deep
0.1644° S, 121.6681° EPublished position for this site.
The dive
The dive starts deep. You drop to 30 m and then work through the reef systems that give the site its shape, losing depth as you go rather than holding one level, so the profile is a slow staircase up through the reef rather than a there-and-back at a fixed depth. Because the deep end comes first, the plan is front-loaded and the shallow half of the dive is where the time is.
It finishes on a small wreck lying at around 10 m, which makes a natural end point at safety-stop depth: no identity or history for it is published, so treat it as a piece of structure rather than a wreck dive. With gas and time to spare it is possible to carry on from here and cross to Pinnacle 1 or the Sanctum house reef, which the site sits between.
Marine life and season
The sources we used don't single out particular species here.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fair | Fair | Good | Prime | Prime | Prime | Prime | Prime | Good | Good | Fair | Fair |
Season follows Togian Islands: Mar–Sep is driest and calmest; the wet season from November to February brings rain and rougher inter-island crossings.
Sources
- Jam dive site, Togian Islands — Scubago
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