Indonesia - Komodo NP: Orange Grove
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East Nusa Tenggara (NOAA CRW virtual station)A single 2009 dive in Komodo National Park's central sector to 25 m, with no photographs, survey, or coral-cover measurement recorded.
Satu penyelaman pada 2009 di sektor tengah Taman Nasional Komodo hingga 25 m, tanpa foto, survei, atau pengukuran tutupan karang yang tercatat.
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Five independent survey stations shown with the program’s logo — click one to see how far it is from this site.
Eight other CRD dive sites with their own pages within 5 km shown in orange — click a marker to open its page.
Site description
Setting
Orange Grove, also called Tatawa Besar, is in the central sector of Komodo National Park.
Coral cover
- No coral-cover value exists for this site.
Stressors
No bleaching, disease, or other stressor is recorded for this dive (16 August 2009) in Anderson's dive log or the 2009 trip notes.
Comparisons with other data
WWF-US and WWF-Indonesia surveyed a nearby station (TNK06), 0.46 km from the pin; we could not confirm that it is the same reef. Within 5 km, five independent stations (Reef Check and WWF-US / WWF-Indonesia) recorded station-year means of 8.8–51% hard coral cover between 2016 and 2020; the nearest, WWF-US / WWF-Indonesia at TNK06, 0.46 km away, read 40% in 2016.
Dive record
It was dived on 16 August 2009 (entry 13:00, 64 minutes), mid-way through the August 2009 Komodo trip, to a recorded depth of 25 m. The log notes 20 m visibility ("bad for here"), giant cuttlefish, whitetip sharks, trevally, and abundant orange nephtheid soft corals, from which the site takes its name. No photographs and no in-water survey are attached to this site, so the log entry is the whole of the dive record. Typical recent heat stress here is a mean annual maximum of 6.3 degree heating weeks over 2021-2025 (NOAA Coral Reef Watch, East Nusa Tenggara virtual station).
Independent surveys nearby
| Agency / program | Year(s) | Stations / distance | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reef Check | 2020 | 4 stations, 2.41–3.72 km | Records ↓ |
| WWF-US / WWF-Indonesia | 2016 | 1 station, 0.46 km | Records ↓ |
Within 5 km, 5 independent survey stations recorded hard coral cover in 8 surveys between 2016 and 2020. The most recent nearby survey is from 2020, so these values predate recent heat stress.
Collected by other programs using different methods (Reef Check uses point-intercept transects), 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.
| Agency | Site / location | Date | Hard coral cover (%) | Distance | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WWF-US / WWF-Indonesia | TNK06 | 2016 | 40% | 0.46 km | Amkieltiela, Abdillah T, Amkieltiela A, Andradi-Brown D, Lazuardi E. 2016. Komodo MPA. MERMAID |
| Reef Check | Siaba Besar (Sector 2) | 2020 | 47% (41–52%, 2 surveys, Mar–Aug 2020) | 2.41 km | — |
| Reef Check | Siaba Besar (Sector 1) | 2020 | 51% (44–59%, 2 surveys, Mar–Aug 2020) | 2.41 km | — |
| Reef Check | Mawan (Sector 1) | 2020 | 10% (2 surveys) | 3.72 km | — |
| Reef Check | Mawan (Sector 2) | 2020 | 8.8% | 3.72 km | — |
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.
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