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Central, Breaking Patches
★★★★☆
(1,539)
Offers a lovely shallow wall with picturesque beauty, making it an easy site to navigate. Shallow sand patches are perfect for skills and macro diving. The western wall does offer a little more depth but is also known to have some strong currents coming through.
Beautiful mix of hard and soft corals. Excellent displays of Gorgonian fan corals on exterior wall. Giant clams, Sea Turtles, Clown Anemonefish, Unicorn fish, feather Seastars.
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.: 600
iStock/ultramarinfoto
30 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 28
Udo Kefrig
Clownfish
76 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 100
iStock-burnsboxco
Parrotfish
67 Sightings
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11
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Total number of species approx.: 130
Shutterstock_Krzysztof Odziomek
Butterfly Fish
46 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 90
Shutterstock-Rich Carey
Angelfish
45 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 8
Alamy-Reinhard Dirscherl
Bannerfish
34 Sightings
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11
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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.: 350
Alamy-Andre Seal
Damselfish
22 Sightings
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8
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14
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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.: 90
Shutterstock-Levent Konuk
Goatfish
14 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 130
AdobeStock-JirinaVFR
Pufferfish
13 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.: 1500
iStock-ifish
Hard Corals
12 Sightings
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