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.
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Numenius tahitiensis
Lobe Coral
Porites lobata
Swordfish
Xiphias gladius
Blue Shark
Prionace glauca
Bluntnose Sixgill Shark
Hexanchus griseus
Spotted Garden Eel
Heteroconger hassi
Harlequin Snake Eel
Myrichthys colubrinus
Greater Argonaut
Argonauta argo
Yellowfin Tuna
Thunnus albacares
Humpback Whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
Great Barracuda
Sphyraena barracuda
Skipjack
Katsuwonus pelamis
Vulnerable
