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This is a short barrier reef protecting a narrow channel between Bazaruto and Benguerra. There are excellent snorkeling sites on the inside of the reef as well as beginners’ dives – The Aquarium and Fish Bowl (5 – 13 meters) and 2 exciting dives on the outside – The Point and The Boulders (up to 20 meters).The flat-topped reef supports a colourful diversity of hard and soft corals, with numerous schools of reef fish, such as coachman, fusilier, snapper and surgeon. Schools of large pelagic and reef fish also frequent the area and there is a chance of encountering huge potato bass, kingfish, barracuda, devil, manta and round ribbon rays, batfish, honeycomb moray, hawks bill turtles, green turtles and grey reef sharks, tiger and whale sharks.
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Five mile reef offers 2 dives on the outside between 10 – 30 meters. The first, Fish Face Pinnacle is a shallow reef dive, hard and soft corals, big pinnacle surrounded by sand with a variety of sea life such as turtles, butterfly fish, surgeon fish, kingfish, groupers and potato bass. The second, Pinnacle Forest, is a deeper dive with a forest of small pinnacles, boulder and gullies. |
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This site has an inside drop off to 20 meters and an outside slope, down to 30 meters. Fish to be encountered here are white & black tip reef sharks, turtles, emperor angel fish, semi circle angelfish, trumpet fish, blue spotted rays, porcupine rays, nudibranchs oriental sweet lips and game fish. |
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This is a shallow, rocky reef on the southern tip of Bazaruto which is usually a snorkelling site and also ideal for resort courses. The rocky recesses are famous for harbouring moray eels. This area has lots of boulders, little caves, lionfish, green tree coral, a variety of different species of kingfish, fazilias, blue spotted rays, green turtles as well as white & black tip reef sharks. The depth of this dive is maximum 20 meters. |
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Sheltered by Benguerra Island, this unusual dive is named after an accumulation of fossilized trees rising from the sea floor at 13 meters. It is also a good site to photograph moray eels and lionfish. (3 – 13 meter dives) |
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Situated on the southernmost extremity of the archipelago and attached to the Moçambican mainland, this is another rarely visited, long-distance site which offers conditions for experienced divers. The reefs are much deeper than the regular Archipelago sites (down to 30 meters) and have spectacular coral growth. Schools of game fish, brindle bass, manta rays and sharks are regularly seen here. There is also a strong possibility of seeing whale sharks during the lengthy boat ride. |
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