Submerged Rock

Submerged Rock never breaks the surface - the swell marks it with a boil on big days - and its underwater profile is a gift: a pinnacle drilled clean through by a swim-through at around 15-18 m, lined with encrusting color and packed with fish waiting out the current. Whitetips stack inside the tunnel and under every overhang, eagle rays and marbled rays orbit the base, and hammerheads make wider circuits out in the blue. Because the interesting depth band is shallower than at the marquee seamounts, it often serves as a second or third dive that ends up out-delivering the first.

اللحظة التي جئت من أجلها: The swim-through, dense whitetips, rays orbiting a tower of rock

التضاريس: Pinnacle rising to just below the surface, pierced by a swim-through

التيار: More forgiving than the outer seamounts, though swell finds it easily.

المخاطر: Surge in and around the swim-through; keep the tunnel passage brief and orderly.

نيتروكس: يستحق الأمر هنا: الملفات الشخصية تقع في النطاق الذي يُمدّد فيه الهواء المدعّم (نيتروكس) وقت الغوص دون توقف تمديدًا ملموسًا، مع التدريب اللازم لاستخدامه.