Indonesia - Komodo NP: Coral Garden/Canyon

Part of the regional summary: Indonesia - Komodo

Country

Indonesia

Survey date(s)

2009-08-17

Coordinates

-8.4330, 119.5780

Coral cover

—

not yet measured

Observations

not yet tagged for this site

Heat stress

Today’s heat load

27.0°C 0.0°C-weeks

16 Sep 2026 · No heat stress

5-year thermal stress load

5-year mean max. degree heating weeks (DHW)

6.3°C-weeksⁱ

2021–2025

NOAA Coral Reef Watch — East Nusa Tenggara virtual station

i 5-year mean max. DHW is the mean of the annual maximum DHWs over the five complete years named above, not conditions today.

More info

East Nusa Tenggara (NOAA CRW virtual station) · Lesser Sunda ecoregion mean=6.9°C-heating weeks

Max. depth dived

25.0 m

One independent survey station shown with the program’s logo — click one to see how far it is from this site.

Four other CRD dive sites within 5 km shown in orange — click a marker to open its page.

Site description

Coral cover

No cover was measured.

Stressors

No crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) or other corallivores evident.

Fish and other fauna

The log describes an 8 ft manta, a nurse shark, white-tips, nudibranchs, and terrain like hiking underwater.

Comparisons with other data

Only one independent survey falls within 10 km - the MERMAID station TNK05, 3.23 km away at 67.3% in 2016 - which at that distance is regional context and nothing more.

Also on record for this site: No photographs, coral-cover estimate, or written account have been attached to this site yet, and no survey sits close enough to describe the site itself.

Dive record

One dive, 17 August 2009, entering at 13:45 for 64 minutes to 25.0 m with a divemaster logged as Emma.

Other notes

The log opens by noting they went to the wrong site by accident, which matters more than anything else on this site: the recorded name and coordinate may not correspond to the reef actually dived, so treat the position as approximate and the site identity as unconfirmed. Genuinely coral, but the site identity is soft, and no country field is recorded for this site.

Independent surveys nearby

Within 5 km, 1 independent survey station recorded hard coral cover in 2016. The most recent nearby survey is from 2016, so these values predate recent heat stress.

Collected by other programs using different methods, so these are context for the figures above, not a like-for-like comparison. Where a station was surveyed more than once the range is shown. Station names are not dive-site names.

Independent survey data near this site
Agency	Site / location	Date	Hard coral cover (%)	Distance	Link
WWF-US / WWF-Indonesia	TNK05	2016	67%	3.23 km	Amkieltiela, Abdillah T, Amkieltiela A, Andradi-Brown D, Lazuardi E. 2016. Komodo MPA. MERMAID

Data & links

Data on this page are from the organizations named in the data-sources table above, not Coral Reef Diagnostics; Coral Reef Diagnostics has no survey of its own at this site.