Indonesia - Komodo NP: Full Moon

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Part of the regional summary: Indonesia - Komodo

Country

Indonesia

Date(s) visited

2009-08-14

Coordinates

-8.4480, 119.5850

Approximate position.

Coral cover

—

not yet measured

Observations

None tagged; see Stressors below

Heat stress

Most recent heat load record

29.4°C 0.0°C-weeks

26 Oct 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.

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East Nusa Tenggara (NOAA CRW virtual station)

Site summary

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Full Moon is a seamount covered in hard and soft corals with hunting giant trevallies and staggering marine life (Anderson's log). No cover was measured; three WWF-US / WWF-Indonesia surveys within 10 km (2016) average 55% hard coral.

Max. depth dived

16.8 m

Sea surface temp. (satellite)

27.4°C

satellite sea surface temperature (SST) on the survey date (NOAA Coral Reef Watch, East Nusa Tenggara), not an in-water reading; it is the warmest-pixel (90th percentile) reading in the station area and can run 1–1.5°C above the reef

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

Three other CRD dive sites with their own pages within 5 km shown in orange — click a marker to open its page.

Site description

Stressors

No bleaching, disease, or other stressor is recorded for this dive (14 August 2009) in Anderson's dive log, which describes a seamount covered in hard and soft corals, or in the 2009 trip notes.

Comparisons with other data

Komodo National Park is a coral-reef park, and the regional numbers are high: three WWF-US / WWF-Indonesia surveys within 10 km, all from 2016, span 40-67% hard coral and average 55%, the nearest being station TNK05 at 2.48 km with 67%. At 2.5 km that is regional context and nothing more.

No photographs or coral-cover estimate have been attached to this site yet, and no survey sits close enough to describe the site itself.

Dive record

One dive, 14 August 2009, entering at 13:15 for 65 minutes to 16.8 m, with a divemaster. The log describes a seamount covered in hard and soft corals, giant trevallies hunting, perfect visibility, and staggering marine life — structure and fish, not a cover measurement, and no cover was recorded.

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 cell shows either the range of its values or, as a single value, the mean of surveys made in one year. 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%	2.48 km	Amkieltiela, Abdillah T, Amkieltiela A, Andradi-Brown D, Lazuardi E. 2016. Komodo MPA. MERMAID

Data & links

Data on this page are from Coral Reef Diagnostics (the dive record) and the organizations named in the data sources above; Coral Reef Diagnostics has no coral cover estimate of its own at this site.