Gorontalo Scuba Diving Sites
Traffic Jam
Traffic Jam is a another west facing, north-south wall, but with the added
feature of ten vertical shafts sunk into the wall, creating
convolutions large enough for you to enter and explore. These
shafts act as resting places and masses of juvenile fish tend
to congregate inside them. This is how Traffic Jam got its name.
The reef wall has huge olive green fluke sponges, pink sinogorgia soft corals, and a superb range of leather corals. Loch's nudibranch is frequently seen with its brazen body display of white, sky blue and black stripes.
Traffic Jam is famous as one of the best sites to find Coleman's coral shrimp
(Vir colemani), only identified in December 2003. This creature
measures up to all of a centimetre, is transparent with
purple joints - as you can imagine, not the easiest critter
to find. Try spotting them on the white clusters of bubble
coral heads that dot the wall.
Some common sightings on this Gorontalo scuba diving site are common plankton feeders such as blue-dash and yellow-dash fusiliers, lemon damsels, teardrop butterflyfish and velvet unicornfish.
Other fish you might see are the two-spined angelfish - blue body with a red/orange
body patch, Allen's tube-lipped wrasse, yellow-spot slingjaw wrasse,
lined chromis, and the solor boxfish with its peculiar grey
marble colouration.
Gorontalo diving also has its fair share of marine mammals. Bottlenose dolphins are often seen from the dive boat, and there's even a chance they may pay you a visit on your safety stop.
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Traffic Jam Reef Basics: wall diving
Depth: 5 - >40m
Visibility: 10 - 25m
Currents: Gentle
Surface Conditions: Can be choppy
Water Temperature: 28 - 30°C
Experience Level: Beginner - advanced
Number of dive sites: 1
Diving Season: November - April
Distance: ~25 km east of Gorontalo (40 mins)
Access: Gorontalo dive liveaboards
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