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Central, Breaking Patches
★★★★☆
(1,796)
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
62 Sightings
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12
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28
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5
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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.: 28
Udo Kefrig
Clownfish
119 Sightings
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12
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10
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19
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30
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12
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13
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11
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12
The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species approx.: 100
iStock-burnsboxco
Parrotfish
117 Sightings
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18
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14
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20
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29
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13
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12
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11
The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species approx.: 130
Shutterstock_Krzysztof Odziomek
Butterfly Fish
90 Sightings
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14
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11
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19
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27
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9
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10
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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-Rich Carey
Angelfish
89 Sightings
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12
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13
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18
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28
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9
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9
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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.: 8
Alamy-Reinhard Dirscherl
Bannerfish
78 Sightings
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10
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9
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15
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26
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7
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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
68 Sightings
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8
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18
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30
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6
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6
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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.: 3500
Unsplash-pascal van de vendel
Soft Corals
51 Sightings
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6
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10
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29
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6
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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
48 Sightings
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6
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10
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26
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6
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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
44 Sightings
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7
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11
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19
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7
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