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Buena Vista
A combination slope and wall to 80 ft. (25 M) then a gentle slope to the bottom. There are several large canyons on the walls. Usually done as a gentle…
Valley of the Rays – Manta Dive
Coral outcroppings rising from the sandy bottom of the channel serve as Manta cleaning stations. The Mantas hover over the coral heads & allow cleaner wrasse and other species of…
Tradewind Mini-Wall
Tradewind Mini-Wall is a series of vertical mini-walls from 20 – 50 ft. (6 – 15 M). Below 50 ft. (15 M) there’s a short plateau before a gentle sandy…
Sunrise Reef
This site marks the northern boundary of regularly dived areas. A very gradual slope provides a large area of prime habitat for coral growth. The gradual dropoff provides hundreds of…
Stammtisch Manta Ray Dive
Stammtisch is Yap’s signature dive to interact with Manta Rays cleaning. It is a shallow, static dive spent at the cleaning station for up-close interaction. Mantas typically pass just overhead…
Spanish Wall
Usually done as a slow drift dive past the slopes & walls. You’ll find steeply descending slopes high- lighted by a series of vertical walls from 60 – 85 ft.…
Samakai Wall
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…
Rainbow Reef
Inshore reef, located in front of O’ Keefe’s Island. The “balconies“ of stag horn corals are home to the biggest population of Mandarin fishes in Yap, which makes it a…
Millennium Gardens
A series of terraces with an abundance of pristine hard corals offering an amazing variety in shape, form, and color. The landscape is interspersed with dive throughs and crevices, some…
Gilmaan Wall
Vertical wall running northwest from Yap Caverns. Lots of crevices and overhangs. Due to its proximity to the southern tip of the Island, the life on this wall is very…