Indonesia - Komodo NP: White Sands
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East Nusa Tenggara (NOAA CRW virtual station)White Sands produced a strong current, with fish blanketing the reef before a run-out onto a white sand slope with soft corals. No cover of its own was measured; the nearest survey station, Reef Check's Mawan (Sector 1) 0.91 km away, recorded 3.1% hard coral in August 2020, while 2020 station means within 2 km ranged from 8.8% to 51%, showing how patchy this stretch of reef is.
White Sands menghasilkan arus yang kuat, dengan ikan yang menyelimuti terumbu sebelum mengalir ke lereng pasir putih dengan karang lunak. Tutupan sendiri tidak diukur; stasiun survei terdekat, stasiun Reef Check Mawan (Sektor 1) yang berjarak 0.91 km, mencatat 3.1% karang keras pada Agustus 2020, sementara rerata stasiun tahun 2020 dalam radius 2 km berkisar antara 8.8% dan 51%, menunjukkan betapa tidak meratanya bentangan terumbu ini.
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Six independent survey stations shown with the program’s logo — click one to see how far it is from this site.
Ten other CRD dive sites with their own pages within 5 km shown in orange — click a marker to open its page.
Site description
Coral cover
- No cover of its own was measured.
Stressors
No bleaching, disease, or other stressor is recorded for this dive (15 August 2009) in Anderson's dive log or the 2009 trip notes.
Comparisons with other data
All five Reef Check stations within 2 km were surveyed in 2020, and their 2020 station means in the survey table span 8.8-51%: Mawan (Sector 1) 10% (the mean of its two 2020 surveys, the newer of which is the 3.1% on the tile) and Mawan (Sector 2) 8.8%, both 0.91 km away; Siaba Besar (Sector 1) 51% and Siaba Besar (Sector 2) 47% (the mean of its two 2020 surveys), both 1.51 km away; and Pengah Kecil (Sector 1) SW Side 48% at 1.73 km. A spread that wide inside 2 km in one season means none of these figures is this site's own cover.
Dive record
One dive, 15 August 2009, entering at 10:45 for 65 minutes to 21.3 m with a divemaster.
Other notes
The log records a strong current, fish blanketing the reef, and a run-out onto a white sand slope with soft corals.
No underwater photographs from this site are on file.
Independent surveys nearby
| Agency / program | Year(s) | Stations / distance | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reef Check | 2020 | 5 stations, 0.91–1.73 km | Records ↓ |
| WWF-US / WWF-Indonesia | 2016 | 1 station, 3.39 km | Records ↓ |
Within 5 km, 6 independent survey stations recorded hard coral cover in 10 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% | 3.39 km | Amkieltiela, Abdillah T, Amkieltiela A, Andradi-Brown D, Lazuardi E. 2016. Komodo MPA. MERMAID |
| Reef Check | Mawan (Sector 1) | 2020 | 10% (3.1–18%, 2 surveys, Mar–Aug 2020) | 0.91 km | — |
| Reef Check | Mawan (Sector 2) | 2020 | 8.8% | 0.91 km | — |
| Reef Check | Siaba Besar (Sector 1) | 2020 | 51% (44–59%, 2 surveys, Mar–Aug 2020) | 1.51 km | — |
| Reef Check | Siaba Besar (Sector 2) | 2020 | 47% (41–52%, 2 surveys, Mar–Aug 2020) | 1.51 km | — |
| Reef Check | Pengah Kecil (Sector 1) SW Side | 2020 | 48% (39–57%, 2 surveys, Mar–Aug 2020) | 1.73 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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