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Central, Breaking Patches
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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
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Total number of species approx.: 28
Udo Kefrig
Clownfish
59 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 100
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Parrotfish
47 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 130
Shutterstock_Krzysztof Odziomek
Butterfly Fish
23 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 90
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Angelfish
21 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 8
Alamy-Reinhard Dirscherl
Bannerfish
14 Sightings
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Whitetip Reef Shark
9 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.: 150
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Sweetlips and Grunts
4 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 40
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Triggerfish
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