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gerchong Drop-off - A wall dive, drifting with the current. Di- apparent. The hull is still fairly intact and can be penetrated quite
safely.
N vers can regularly see White Tip Reef Sharks, Grey Reef Sharks,
Sea Turtles, Bump Headed Parrotfish and Crocodile fish.
S iaes Corner - A simple drift along the wall amongst schools of Turtle Cove - A condensed Blue Holes. Laser clams, Gobies and Pipe
Pyramid Butterfly fish, leads to a section of reef that juts out. Fish can be found inside the cavern. Grey Reef Shark, Black Snapper
and the occasional Eagle Ray, can be seen outside, along the wall.
Napolean Wrasse, Grey Reef Sharks and schools of Redtoothed T urtle Wall - A wall dive where Napolean Wrasse, Sea Turtles and
Triggerfish gather here in the gentle currents. Clown Triggerfish Sharks are commonly seen, as are schools of Pyramid Butterfly
and small grouper can often be found amongst the corals.
S iaes Tunnel - A 2 minute boat journey from Ulong Channel. This fish and Yellow Tailed Fusiliers. Current depending, the dive usu-
is a dive down a section of vertical wall, to the entrance of a ally ends as a drift dive along the plateau on top of the wall where
White Tip Reef Sharks can commonly be seen.
large tunnel that cuts straight through the reef. Divers can often
find a large school of Big Eye Trevally circling below them, just in-
long Channel - This site is a shallow channel through the
Uside the entrance. Upon nearing the tunnel exit, sleeping White Tip western barrier reef of Ulong Island. The sandy floor lies at a
Reef Sharks can be found. The dive finishes along the wall where maximum depth of only 13m and there is life in patches all along
Grey Reef Sharks are present. the floor and continuously along the little slopes on either side.
T ESHIO MARU - Having left Malakal Harbour before the US air The site has so much variety there is really more than can be taken
strikes of March 30th and 31st 1944, this vessel was neverthe- in on a single dive. Many frequent divers consider it among their
favorite spots in Palau.
less bombed and strafed by a passing US fighter and managed V irgin Blue Hole - Divers descend down a hole, on top of the
to drift onto a reef. She is located further away from the island shallow reef, into a huge cavern, 28m / 92ft deep. Natural
than any other regularly dived wreck. it is possible to view large
parts of the 320 foot vessel at the same time. Clearly visible is a light filters down from the vertical shaft above, providing excellent
gun mounted on the stern although the profusion of coral that silhouette shots. The cavern it’s self is approximately a 10 to 12
has grown on it means that the original shape is not immediately minute swim from beginning to end, then opens out onto the wall.