Tulamben Drop-Off

A ten-minute walk from the Liberty, the Drop-Off gives Tulamben its second act: a true wall grown from an old lava tongue, falling from knee-deep water to well past forty meters. Barrel sponges the size of bathtubs, sea fans hosting pygmy seahorses, and black coral bushes decorate the face, while clouds of anthias work the shallows and the occasional reef shark or eagle ray passes in the blue. Overhangs shelter lionfish, sweetlips, and morays, and night dives here turn up Spanish dancers and hunting cephalopods. It rounds out a classic Tulamben day, wreck in the morning, muck at midday, wall in the afternoon, all from the same stretch of dark beach.

Khoảnh khắc bạn đến vì nó: Sponge-and-fan wall from shore; pygmy seahorses; rich and easy night diving.

Địa hình: Volcanic rock wall and buttresses dropping past recreational depths, pocketed with overhangs.

Điểm vào: Pebble-beach entry at the eastern end of Tulamben bay, a short surface swim from the wall.

Nguy hiểm cần lưu ý: Easy depth creep on a wall that keeps going; watch gauges and the surge near the entry.

Nitrox: Đáng dùng ở đây — các hồ sơ nằm trong khoảng độ sâu mà nitrox có thể kéo dài thời gian không dừng một cách thực sự có ý nghĩa (khi đã được đào tạo sử dụng).