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he Zoo - Depth 30-300 feet. Wall dive with coral on top. Marine rine life is mostly white soft corals on the wall with a few large sea
whips sticking off the end of the wall. On top of the wall there is
T life include barracuda, moray eels, manta rays, potato cod, a mixture of soft and hard coral. Fish life includes mackerel, eagle
rays, manta rays, coral trout, and lionfish.
fusiliers, basslets, anthiases, sharks (usually in schools), nudi-
branches, plus lots of small beautifully colored fish. There are a W ise’s Place - Depth 20-80 feet. Sloping dive with coral heads.
large range of soft coral, including flatworms. Marine life includes schools of coral grouper, fusiliers, sea
goldies, bluespotted stingrays, yellow margin moray eels. In ad-
W hite Wall - You begin the dive by disappearing down, down, dition there are large star corals, table corals, fire corals, flower
down, through a tunnel of soft corals which takes you onto corals, and white soft corals.
the wall where it’s apparent how the dive site gained its name as a
brilliant display of white corals more expected on a ski slope than Y ellow Tunnel - Depth 10-80 feet. Sloping dive. Coral head with
underwater, greets you. As you cruise along it is the white wall a point. Yellow soft corals inside and outside a hole. Marine
which surely grabs your attention, but also splashes of colorful life includes stonefish, whitetip reef sharks, schools of bicolor par-
soft corals, sea whips, gorgonian fans, sponges and crinoids make rotfish, and many colorful small fish.
for dramatic viewing. Huge wall of soft almost luminescent white
coral - about 200 feet long and 150 feet deep, best seen from
around 90 feet down. There are a couple of tunnels through. Ma-
