Underwater volcanoe at Mahengetang island is one of the submarine volcano located in Sangihe islands, northern Sulawesi, indonesia, precisely on Mahengetang island. The peak of this mountain is called Banua Wuhu.
Banua Wuhu peak has an altitude of approximately 400 meters from the sea, and 6 meters of sea level measured from the ebb of water (according to my own pilotage calculations), is quite shallow is not it?. Mahengetang itself is located between Siau and Sangihe Island (Sangihe islands), and the location of this mountain around latitude and longitude (3 ° 08 'North / 125 ° 26' East).
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| Underwater volcanoe (img from FB Group Sangihe) |
According to the story, this volcano is some of the islands during the 19th and 20th, one as high as 90m (in the year 1835) but they all disappeared after a year later. In 1904 there are five craters, others formed a new island in 1919 had disappeared in 1935! And now the volcano is located entirely underwater.
because this is a volcanic then the water temperature around the underwater volcano Mahengetang can reach 37-38 degrees Celsius. If you visit there once advised to be careful when diving or snorklin ! the current flow enough strong, so if you see bubbles in the rocks, crater or top of the mountain, Do not try to put your bare hands into the bubble will cause your hands blistered.
Mahengetang, besides having a submarine volcano, it also has an enough beauty under the sea natural. If diving in these waters you will find marine biota by close range. Simply dive into the 10-20 meter, you can see the stretch of coral colonies that are very close.
No surprised if this beauty underwater becoming one of North Sulawesi tourism object that most attractive for foreign tourists, even included of Top 10 Cool & Unusual Dive Object along with "Underwater Cemetery The Neptune Memorial Reef Maimi, Florida" and "Underwater Museum of Cancun's National Park in Mexico".
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| Volcanoe Underwater (Mahangetang) |
Access to the under Sea Volcano Mahengetang
If formerly, from Tahuna town (Capital city of District Sangihe) usually just use regular engine suspension boat, but take long enough can reach 4 hours. then now, has many advanced transportation there such as fast speed boat and other fast boats capable to deliver to Mahengetang with take time no more than 1 hour.If you are in Manado, yyou can directly use speedboat, takes around 5 hours only.
You are a tourists, and curious like what the completion of this underwater mountain? Just try directly to the Mahengetang Island, Sangihe, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
