Scuba diving in Pulau Hantu is great all-year-round. For most of the year, the water temperature in the island reaches 28 to 29°C. It is located in the southern shores of Singapore, and can be reached with a thirty-minute boat ride from the city.
Pulau Hantu literally means Ghost Island or island of the ghosts in Malay translation. Local legend claims that two warriors engaged in a vicious combat and then turned into two islands—Pulau Hantu Kechil and Pulau Hantu Besar—after their deaths.
Scuba diving in Pulau Hantu is amazing for muck and macro divers because of the great variety nudibranchs and slugs that can be found scattered on the island. Pulau Hantu is also teeming with butterfly fish, albino pipefish, blue-spotted stingrays, parrotfish, and crocodile fish.
Pulau Hantu Dive Sites
Scuba diving in Pulau Hantu is popular especially for local recreational divers. Its accessibility and sheltered reefs are only few benefits in diving the island. During low tide season, visitors can walk between Hantu’s two islands, Hantu Besar and Hantu Kecil.
Pulau Hantu appeals to macro diving enthusiasts. Divers who explore the island report frequent sightings of flatworms, seahorses, blue dragons, and sea slugs.
