Wakatobi was created with the vision to deliver the ultimate dive experience and was established following an extensive search to identify the perfect location for a dive resort in terms of geography, climate, oceanic topography and marine biodiversity. To ensure its future, one of the world’s largest privately protected marine reserves was then created. 

This dive centre caters to air, nitrox, and rebreather users as well as snorkelers and freedivers with comprehensive support facilities. And if you like to travel light, the centre offers a full range of premium quality gear for rental including regulators, masks, fins, dive computers, BCDs and torches.

The highly qualified professional dive staff are second to none in the industry. All of the dive guides have an average of 3,000 dives each. Your safety, comfort, and enjoyment is their utmost concern. Regardless of your skill level, they will take the time to make sure you have a great time cruising the reefs. For advanced divers, the centre also has instructor-level guides with cave diving and rebreather specialities. And naturally, all of the guides know the reefs of Wakatobi like the back of their hand. If there’s a critter you have always wanted to see (like a pygmy seahorse?) they will know the place to find it.

The Private Dive or Snorkel Experience Manager (PDEM) program represents the ultimate in personalized resort diving: a private guide, whose focus is to fulfil your innermost wishes for your diving and tailor an exclusive, personalized diving or snorkelling experience to fit your individual needs.

The dive center has everything you need to support your diving activities including rental of well-maintained dive gear, a fully-equipped camera room and a modern compressor room and tank filling center delivering unlimited air supplies. The boats are based on traditional Indonesian boat designs and are built locally. They are fabricated to the center's specifications and are tailored to maximize the comfort for divers. They are very spacious, comfortable and well-equipped, including a (very clean) tiled bathroom in the back. Taxi boats are used to shuttle divers up current for drop off dives on the House Reef.  

Wakatobi Resort is associated with PADI, SDI & TDI. You can chose any Nitrox course option (minimum age 15) as long as you hold any kind of open water diving license. Advanced Nitrox certification is also available as well as Open Water.