Oceania
140
Documented species
1
Parks and reserves
3
Dive sites
140 species found
Based on what we already know about French Polynesia.
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One of the best places in the world to see the largest documented aggregation of grey reef sharks during the groupers' annual spawning
The second largest atoll in French Polynesia, with an enormous lagoon and only two passes connecting it to the ocean: Garuae to the north, the widest navigable channel in Polynesia at some 1,600 m, and Tumakohua to the south, barely a hundred metres across. It is in that southern pass that the "shark wall" forms: hundreds of grey reef sharks resting in formation through the day as the current floods in.
An iconic turquoise lagoon with manta ray cleaning stations reachable even by beginners.
The second-largest atoll in the world. At the mouth of the Tiputa Pass a shoal of grey sharks gathers at around 40 m when the current is right.
Giant Clam
Tridacna gigas
Staghorn Coral
Acropora cervicornis
Great Hammerhead
Sphyrna mokarran
Oceanic Whitetip Shark
Carcharhinus longimanus
Hawksbill Turtle
Eretmochelys imbricata
Blue Whale
Balaenoptera musculus
Spotted Eagle Ray
Aetobatus narinari
Giant Manta
Mobula birostris
Humphead Wrasse
Cheilinus undulatus
Killer Whale
Orcinus orca
Whale Shark
Rhincodon typus
Grey Reef Shark
Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos
Critically Endangered
