French Tuba Garden
Why dive here
With 238+ marine species recorded in the area - including blacktip reef sharks, giant moray eels, pygmy seahorses, seahorses and sperm whales - French Tuba Garden offers some of Sulawesi's richest reef diving. Water ranges 29-31°C, warmest June, October, November.
French Tuba Garden is a gentle introduction to some decent wall diving in Sulawesi. We start on a vertical face, really quite colourful with tube sponges, before it eases into a slope. It’s not the deepest dive, topping out at 17 metres, which means plenty of bottom time for taking in the resident parrotfish, damselfish, and the occasional napoleon wrasse cruising by. Visibility here is usually a generous 30 metres, so you get a good look at the wall’s texture and the corals. It’s a pleasant, relaxed dive, ideal for an afternoon cruise.
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Ocean conditions, forecast and tides for French Tuba Garden
French Tuba Garden Ocean Conditions
Monthly averages for French Tuba Garden, sourced from Open-Meteo marine data + Copernicus Marine (EU) - nearest station: Open-Meteo marine grid (1.5, 124.75) (0km away)
October Averages
Sea Temperature
30°C
87°F · Range: 29.6–31.2°C
Current Speed
1 cm/s
Direction: W (270°)
Chlorophyll-a
0.099 mg/m³
Very clear (oligotrophic)
Salinity
33.17 PSU
Based on 4 years of monitoring data · Data sources: Open-Meteo marine data + Copernicus Marine (EU)
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