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Makena Landing
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Makena Landing offers divers access to one of the best and most unique dive sites on the island of Maui. This area is home to numerous ledges and grottos, and actually encompasses a few different individual dive sites known as 5 caves/5 graves, turtle town, and turtle arch.
Wildlife encounters here are spectacular and include the smallest of creatures like nudibranchs and crabs to large manta rays, eagle rays, white tip reef sharks, and turtles.
Dive Activity
Top Wildlife Sightings
Wildlife Sightings are Based on User Generated Content
Shutterstock-Shane Myers Photography
226 Sightings
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16
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27
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Alamy-WaterFrame
Moray Eel
114 Sightings
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5
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12
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14
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8
Alamy/Reinhard Dirscherl
Octopus
49 Sightings
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6
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3
iStock/ultramarinfoto
Wrasse
34 Sightings
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5
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2
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3
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3
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iStock/Juliosanjuan
Eagle Ray
15 Sightings
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3
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1
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4
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2
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3
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2
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Shutterstock-Ed Jenkins
Hawksbill Turtle
12 Sightings
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2
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7
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3
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iStock-June Jacobsen
Whitetip Reef Shark
91 Sightings
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4
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7
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4
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3
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3
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12
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11
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20
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1
iStock-wrangel
Triggerfish
85 Sightings
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7
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5
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5
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10
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4
Shutterstock-Rich Carey
Angelfish
73 Sightings
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13
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8
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2
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10
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3
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7
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5
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11
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4
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5
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4
Shutterstock_Krzysztof Odziomek
Butterfly Fish
71 Sightings
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12
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7
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3
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5
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4
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5
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3
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14
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7
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4