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| Pulau Tioman |  
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Description:
36 nautical miles from the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Tioman gained its fame from the Hollywood motion picture "South Pacific", in the early sixties, as the island in this motion picture, "Bali Hai", was based on this island. Since then nature lovers and sun seekers alike have paid homage to Tioman year after year. Tioman Island is situated 36 nautical miles from the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The main tourist season runs from early February until the end of October. Although there are some beaches that operate year round. This white sandy, palm fringed island is blessed with crystal clear warm waters were you can discover an abundance of marine life. | |
| Details: |
 Nearest commercial airport: Tekek (Tioman Island |
| Average watertemp: Min 27 - Max 29 oCelcius. |
| Average visibility: 15 Horizontal metres |
| Bottom composition: Sand, Corals, Rocks |
| Dive conditions: Ocean/Sea, Salt water |
| Seasonality: Best time to dive Feb til May vis. ranges up to 35 meters. General dive season Feb. til Nov. and late September and October.
Average Vizibility: February until May: 25 to 40 meters. June: 15 to 20 meters, July/August: 8 to 15 meters. September: 15 to 20 meters, October: 25 to 40 meters. |
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Marinelife in the area:
| Species | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | | | Blacktip reef sharks |  | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | Depending on the dive sites: Renggis Island and Batu Malang high chance, others small chance
| | | Coastal fish & Reef Life |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All most common reef fishes such as damsel, snappers, wrasses, fusilier, groupers/cods, anemonefishes, butterflyfishes, bannerfishes, angelfishes, gobies, lizzardfishes etc.
| | | Coastal fish & Reef Life | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nudibranchs by the hundreds: So far at least 200 species positively identified, roughly 50 species could not be identified.
Most common nudibranch and related families:
Chromodorididae, Phyllidiidae, Polyceridae, Elysiidae, Pleurobranchidae, Aplysiidae, Facelinidae, Flabellinidae, Aeolidiidae, K... (More)
| | | Green turtles | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | Hawksbill turtles |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hawksbill and green turtles are quite commen around dive sites like batu malang and renggis.
| | | Moray eels | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Giant moray, white eye moray, whitemotuh moray, undulated moray, black spotted moray
| | | Pelagic fish | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Napoleon Wrasses, Potato cods, Bumphead Parrotfishes, Barracudas, Giant Travelly, Marble Rays
| | | Stingrays | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tioman is blessed with stingrays such as Marble ray, fan tail sand ray, blue spotted stingray and eagle rays.
| | Probability of encounter:  0%,  0 > 60%,  60 > 90%,  90 > 100%
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