Yap Caverns
- Photography: Wide Angle or Macro
- Dive Plan: Static or drift dive at slack tide with cavern and wall diving for ~90 minute bottom time with a swim through tour
- Conditions: 3m/10ft to 30m/100ft depth with swim through caverns two wall dive options rock pinnacles with a white sand bottom
- Wildlife: Schools of fish, reef sharks, macro subjects, moray eels / reef fish, large pelagic fish, cleaning stations, bump head parrot fish
- Visibility: 40-100+ ft | 12-30+ m
- Current: Usually none
A network of caverns and canyons notched out of the coral wall. Large coral outcroppings in the shallower sections are honeycombed with narrow chasms and chimneys large enough for divers to explore. Skylights in the caverns send shafts of sunbeams down into the depths.
CoralsVaried hard coral walls honeycombed with crevices and fissures, some of which rise up to openings inside on the lagoon floor. The vertical walls are rich in soft corals.
Fish LifeWhitetip reef sharks are often found resting in the sandy bowls within the crevices. Expect a wide variety of reef fish and schooling pelagics. Sometimes schools of fifty or more huge Parrothead Humpbackfish are found outside the caverns. At the bottom of the outer mini-wall, Gray reef sharks are frequently seen. Morays and Stingrays are often seen near or within the caverns. Large schools of Tuna & Amberjack heve been sighted off the entrance. Lionfish abound.