SAMAKAI WALL
Depth:
20-100 ft | 6-30 m
Visibility:
50-100+ ft | 15-30+ m
Current:
0-1 mph | 0-2 km/h
Dominant features
A vertical wall that curves in & out. Current usually less than 1/2 knot makes this an easy drift dive. This portion of the reef has a steeper wall than most of the sites on east side of the Island. Sometimes done as a night dive if the seas are particularly calm.
Corals
Big crevices running perpendicular to the reef are filled with many of the hardy, star and table corals. The wall is covered by a good variety of hard corals with occasional small soft corals mixed in.
Fish Life
Look for a lot of small schooling reef fish at the top of the wall. Turtles frequently sleep in crevices along this section of the reef. Sharks, Barracuda and Morays are seen in the daytime. Lionfish, Stonefish and Lobsters at night.
Known Dive Sites
- Aliko reef
- Big bend
- Cabbage patch
- Cherry blossom wall
- Crescent reef
- Eagle's nest
- End of the land
- Fan dancer
- Gapow reef
- Gilmaan wall
- Goofnuw mini wall
- Kurrekurredutt dropoff
- Lighthouse pass
- Lionfish wall
- Magic kingdom
- Manta ridge
- Mi'l channel
- Millennium gardens
- O'keef's passage
- Paaw reef
- Pelaek corner
- Rainbow reef
- Sakura terrace
- Samakai wall
- Slow & easy
- Spanish wall
- Stonehenge
- Sunrise reef
- Telegraph reef
- Tradewind mini-wall
- Valley of the rays
- Vertigo
- Yap caverns
- Yap corner
- Buena vista
- Stammtisch
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