Danii's Reef

Shallow soft coral reef with unique macro life and artifacts.

Boat Access
12m Avg Depth
16m Max Depth

About this dive site

This dive site offers a fascinating underwater experience. It starts relatively shallow, featuring small bommies, fields of soft coral, sea pens, and anemones. Divers can explore areas with sunken pots and smashed plate shards – remnants from passing merchant ships, hinting at a rich maritime history and potential treasures to discover. Heading north, the terrain transitions into a vibrant soft coral reef characterized by overhangs and mini walls. These structures frequently provide shelter for turtles seeking refuge from currents. The area is teeming with diverse marine life, including frogfish (particularly pink ones!), nudibranchs, flatworms, moray eels, small stingrays, and an impressive variety of juvenile wrasses alongside large yellow-margin triggerfish.

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Site Ratings

Big Marine Life Good
Macro Marine Life Very Good
Landscape Quality Excellent
Water Visibility Very Good Viz

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Marine Life

  • Clownfish Clownfish
  • Bannerfish Bannerfish
  • Pufferfish Pufferfish
  • Sweetlip Sweetlip
  • Triggerfish Triggerfish
  • Sea Pen Sea Pen
  • Honeycomb Grouper Honeycomb Grouper
  • Trevally Trevally
  • Hawksbill Turtle Hawksbill Turtle
  • Green Sea Turtle Green Sea Turtle
  • Snapper Snapper
  • Nudibranch Nudibranch
  • Octopus Octopus
  • Bluespotted Fantail Ray Bluespotted Fantail Ray
  • Anemone Anemone
  • Frogfish Frogfish
  • Flatworm Flatworm
  • Blue-Barred Parrotfish Blue-Barred Parrotfish
  • Surgeonfish Surgeonfish
  • Scorpionfish Scorpionfish
  • Bluespotted Ribbontail Ray Bluespotted Ribbontail Ray
  • French Angelfish French Angelfish
  • Snowflake Moray Snowflake Moray
  • Soft Coral Soft Coral
  • Boxfish Boxfish
  • Trumpetfish Trumpetfish
  • Pipefish Pipefish
  • Common Lionfish Common Lionfish

Things to Note

Difficulty:

All levels

Shallow maximum depth and generally easy conditions make it accessible.

Hazards:
currentmarine lifeboat traffic
Current Strength:

Mild

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