Bari Reef

Bari Reef looks unremarkable from the surface, a resort house reef with a sandy walk-in, which makes its statistics more startling: volunteer fish-count surveys have recorded more species here than at virtually any other site in the tropical western Atlantic. The gentle slope concentrates everything, from juvenile drums flickering under ledges to seahorses on the sponge patches, frogfish on the debris, and tarpon that materialize beside night divers like patrol cars. It is the island's favorite dawn, dusk, and night dive, and the kind of site that rewards the fiftieth visit as generously as the first.

اللحظة التي جئت من أجلها: Record-setting fish diversity, effortless entry, superb night diving

التضاريس: Gentle sand-and-coral slope with scattered debris patches that shelter macro life

نقطة الدخول: Sandy walk-in entry in front of the resorts just north of Kralendijk.

المخاطر: Boat traffic near resort docks; stay on the reef line and surface close to shore.