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Baarah Caves
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Deep sheer wall to 25-30m from a top reef at around 7m. Deep caverns, overhangs, ledges and small caves at around 16m where white tips and nurse sharks can be seen along with rays resting. Macro life to be found in the deep caverns and along the wall / inside the small overhangs and openings.
Stingrays, white tip sharks and lobsters in the small caves, schooling fusiliers and snappers over the top reef, dogtooth tunas, barracudas, eagle rays and turtles are all seen here.
Dive Activity
Potential Wildlife Sightings
Wildlife Sightings are Based on User Generated Content
The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species approx.: 25
iStock/Juliosanjuan
18 Sightings
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Shutterstock-Shane Myers Photography
Green Turtle
14 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 200
Alamy-WaterFrame
Moray Eel
13 Sightings
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Shutterstock-Andrey Armyagov
Hawksbill Turtle
7 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 600
iStock/ultramarinfoto
Wrasse
6 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 27
iStock-Global_Pics
Barracuda
3 Sightings
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The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species approx.: 300
Alamy/Reinhard Dirscherl
Octopus
3 Sightings
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iStock/Divepic
Giant Oceanic Manta Ray
2 Sightings
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Tobias Friedrich
Bottlenose Dolphin
1 Sightings
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iStock-ShaneGross
Loggerhead Turtle
1 Sightings
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