Dive Sites Around Nilaveli & Trincomalee
Reef & Rock Formation | Shipwrecks
Reef & Rock Formation
Pigeon Island South Reef | 4 -16m
This is an ideal dive site to see all kind of reef fishes. Hard and soft corals. Host, sea, club and disc anemones .
Pigeon Island East Rocks | 7- 18m
Beautiful rock formation with schools of fish, eels and rays
Pigeon Island North Reef | 7 - 18m
One of the best dive sites for beginners with many beds of corals covered with Christmas tree tube worms
Pigeon Island West Rocks | 5 - 12m
Colorful rocky bed with bubble mushroom and cup corals, schools of fish.
Coral Island North Reef | 5 -12m
Ideal dive site to find all types of anemones with clown fishes. The sea bed is fully covered with leather and sponge corals
Coral Island South Reef | 5 - 10m
Hard and soft corals spreading around the entire area, schools of reef fishes.
White Rock | 10 - 15m
Schools of fish and different types of sting rays.
Knife Rock | 10 - 15m
This is named after the knife-shaped rock in the area. Beautiful dive site with lots of reef fishes
Sithanam para | 12 -18m
Very good dive site with many sting rays, eels and schools of reef fishes.
Swami Rock | 10-35m
Magnificent dive site with a historical value sting rays, groupers and all the reef fishes.
Coral Bay Rock | 13m
Species of Barracuda, Puffer fish, Sting Ray, Trigger fish, Lion fish, Stone fish are the behavioral fish in this dive site among the other popular kinds of fish. This dive site could be reached within 20 minutes and the maximum depth is 13 meters.
Navy Island | 12m
Very popular dive site to do DSD, OWD, AOWD etc. There are caves, igloo like cave, lots of schools of different fish
Wreck Dive Sites
Irakkandy wreck (SS Ava) | 6-10m
This is a wreck of an 18th century steamer and is close to the dive center. S Ava wrecked in 1858. She was on her way to Suez from Calcutta with women and children refugees from India. There were no casualties, and some mails and cargo were saved. Most of the superstructure was salvaged decades ago, yet the remaining hull parts are in line to see.Fully covered with corals, anemones and good for seeing molluscs, nudibranchs and soft corals.
Navy Underwater Dive Museum and Wreck Dive
Weeraya P311 ( Sandy Bay Gun Boat 03) | 14 - 17m
A military craft/gunboat belongs to the Sri Lanka Navy. The craft was known as the ‘Weeraya” or P311 was in service from 1972 to 2020. Gun boat has rendered a valuable service to the nation over four decades. After decommissioning, it was purposely sunken to be an artificial reef. At the same place, another military craft (Jagatha – P315) was sunken.
Jagatha P315 | 14 - 16m
A military craft/gunboat belongs to the Sri Lanka Navy. The craft was known as the ‘Jagatha” or P315 was in service from 1980 to2020. After decommissioning, it was purposely sunken to be an artificial reef.
Shanghai Class fast gun boat commissioned in 1980 and decommissioned on 2020 Oct 1 Sunk in October 2020 Just 10 m to 20 m away from wreck WEERAYA
Over all length is 38.78 m Beam 5.41 m Speed 52 -125 – 135 tons