Diving Adventures at Long Dong Bay

Long Dong Bay is one of the original scuba diving sites in northern Taiwan. Great for both Fun Diving and teaching courses, regardless, it's a terrific place to practice your favorite recreational water activity. It is located along a stretch of coast fantastic for diving. Keelung City all the way down to Yilan is accessible via the coastal highway number 2 for both boat and shore dives. Long Dong in Chinese means ‘Dragon’s Cave’. The name comes from the underwater rock formation starting at 14 meters and stretches for about 50 meters to a depth of 25 meters. It is said to resemble a dragon laying down, with its back and spines sticking up from the sea bottom, and the cave being the bay itself.

Scuba divers, snorkelers and freedivers can find an abundance of marine life in close proximity to the shore. The calm waters within the bay provide a comfortable, safe place for many water activities.  On shore, while resting, you can take in the beautiful landscape, with stunning mountains and cliffs reaching out towards the sea. There is a hike to a lighthouse on the northern cape, and a hike along the cliff on the southern cape where you may see rock climbers on the tallest face that Taiwan has to offer.

From May to September, the calm waters of Long Dong Bay make it a great location for teaching any of the PADI Discover Scuba Diving to Divemaster courses.  Students are able to work on their diving skills while observing a variety fish around them. Advanced scuba divers can work on their buoyancy along the northern wall, or practice their navigation while exploring the underwater terrain. This site is great for photographers who can encounter some unique species such as the flying gurnard or flounders along the sandy bottom or schools of porcupine pufferfish or striped yellow snappers along the wall. During the spring dive shops will suspend bamboo trees to create a squid nursery where you can see thousands of squid eggs and if you're lucky, encounter numerous squid using it as their home.

With Taiwan growing in local and international popularity, why not give Long Dong Bay a try to see what this alluring site has to offer! Contact us at Fun Divers Taiwan to book your next dive trip.
* Trips to Long Dong Bay are subject to scheduling.

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