| Location:
North Male' Atoll, southeast corner of Paradise Island |
| Description:
The top of the reef is at 12 metres, the reef then slopes gently
down to 40 metres. It is interspersed with massive Porites which
are home to colonies of cleaner fish. |
| Depth
Range: 12m - 30m |
| Marine
life: Famous as a manta cleaning station. The
mantas come in from the deep water and hover over the coral
heads while the wrasse set to work. If you are unlucky enough
to see the mantas, this is still a tremendous dive site; huge
schools of bullseyefish, oriental sweetlips and napoleon wrasse,
plus heaps of turtle and various species of moray eels. The
western point of the reef has beautiful table corals and a large
section of caves. |
| Instructor's
comment: Be patient and position yourself close
to, but not on top of the coral heads. If you do not crowd around
the mantas, a cleaning session will last about 30 minutes or
more. If you try to get too close or touch them, that will scare
them away. |
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