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iil Channel - Miil Channel, located on the northwest side Reef Creatures of Yap

M of the island, is a thirty minute boat ride from the dive Juvenile

shops in Colonia. Each morning the mantas cruise through the Bullethead Parrotfish Bicolor Parrotfish Threadfin Teardrop Raccoon Long-Nosed
channel towards the “cleaning station” for their morning ritual. Butterflyfish Butterflyfish Butterflyfish Butterflyfish
As divers nestle in the sand around the coral head, the mantas
pass inches overhead. All Yap dive shops have two rules for this Pacific Longnose Clown Circular Blackback Meyer's
site, to preserve the experience: (i) please don’t chase after the Parrotfish Triggerfish Spadefish
mantas. (ii) Please don’t touch the mantas. DEPTH: 60ft./18m. (Batfish)
CURRENT: None to slight. Juvenile Butterflyfish Butterflyfish

V alley Of The Rays - This site, also known by its Yapese Titan
name, Goofnuw (pronounced Golfnuw) Channel, is the Triggerfish
summer home of the mantas. From May to November, divers
enjoy the mantas at three different cleaning stations in this Bluebarred Parrotfish Orangestriped
channel. Boat rides are about twenty-five minutes through the Triggerfish
shallow lagoon. DEPTH: 60ft/18m. CURRENT: Slight to strong, Pyramid Saddleback
depending on tidal conditions and wave action outside the Long-Fin Butterflyfish Butterflyfish Ornate
reef. Spadefish Butterflyfish
Rectangular
L ionfish Wall - This wall is a sheer drop and is covered with Longnose Saddleback Grouper Triggerfish
soft corals, anemones, schools of chubs, and lionfish. The Emperor
wall is at a corner, where the eastern reef converges with the
southwestern reef. Though currents can be strong, including Greasy Grouper Eastern Redfin Regal
updrafts and downdrafts, the dive is a drift dive and is often Triangular Butterflyfish Angelfish
an exhilarating experience. DEPTH: 20-150ft/6-45m. CURRENT: Butterflyfish
Medium to strong. Coral Grouper Picasso Emperor
Triggerfish Angelfish
Moorish Idol

Shepard's Harold's
Angelfish Angelfish

Convict Tang Flametail Snapper Blue Devil Sergeant
Major
Flame
Staghorn Blue Boxfish Zebra Scissor-Tail Angelfish
Damselfish Pipefish Sergeant
White-Spotted
Bluebanded Threespot Eagle Ray
Surgeonfish Angelfish

Blackfin Barracuda Redgill Scribbled Filefish Longnose Filefish Mandarinfish
Emperor Cornetfish

Great Barracuda Bird Wrasse

Orangespine
Unicornfish

Oriental White-Margin Blackspotted Humphead
Sweetlips Unicornfish Puffer Parrotfish
Lionfish

Blacktip Reef Shark Singular Napolean
Bannerfish (Humphead) Wrasse

Sharpnose
Puffer

Jewel Squirrelfish Blackfin Hogfish
Damsel
Peacock Pennant
Day Octopus Grouper Porcupinefish Bannerfish

Juvenile Humphead Harlequin Bluegreen

Bannerfish Purple Ghost Chromis
Queen Pipefish
Three-spot
Dascyllus

Pink Glasseye Yellow Margin Yellowtail Coris Peach
Moray Fairy Anthias

Anemonefish Giant Humbug Snowflake
Moray Moray
Magnificent Trumpetfish Blue Tang
Anemone Cleaner Triton's
Dusky Wrasse Trumpet
Anemonefish
Pin
Arceye Cushion
Three-Banded Spiny Hawkfish Star Blue
Anemonefish Lobster Yellowstripe Sea
Whitetip Goatfish Star
Reef Shark Razor
Coral
Sea
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