Of the many sights, Nusa Lembongan has to offer during your stay at 353 Degrees North, a glimpse of the mysterious giant Mola mola will surely be an unforgettable and incredible highlight.
The Mola mola, also known as “ocean sunfish”, is the most common of the four species of deep-sea vertebrate.
Living at depths of two hundred to six hundred meters on a diet of jellyfish and zooplankton, these friendly giants of the sea take the title “heaviest bony fish in the world” with an average weight of 1000kg and an average length of 1.8 meters and a fin-to-fin length of 2.5 m (8.2 ft).
Incredibly, they have been known to get up to 3.3 m (10.8 ft) in length, 4.2 m (14 ft) across the fins and up to 2,300 kg (5,100 lb) in mass.
The females are estimated to carry more than 300 million tiny eggs, more eggs than any other vertebrate in the world. Although these tiny eggs eventually grow into the heaviest bony fish in the ocean, they begin life as the tiny creature pictured below.
In fact, by adulthood, they have the potential to grow up to 60 million times the size they were born at!!