Tulamben
& Kubu

The coast a volcano made.

Tulamben is a small fishing village on Bali's northeast coast. The reason every diver has heard of it is the USAT Liberty — a 120-metre WWII US cargo ship lying 25 metres from shore in 5–30 metres of water, regularly listed in the world's top-ten wrecks.

The wreck got there by accident. Torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1942, the Liberty was beached at Tulamben — and stayed there for 21 years until Mount Agung erupted in 1963. The lava flows shifted the hull off the beach into the bay, where it lies on its side today. The same eruption built the dramatic black-sand slopes, and the Drop-Off wall just 200 metres south plunges past 60 metres into volcanic blue. Add Boga Wreck at Kubu (5 km north), muck dives full of rare critters, and beach entries you can walk to in fins — and you understand why most Bali divers spend half their trip here.