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DIVE SITES
THE ROCK
Diving
around a small volcanic pinnacle you generally plunge straight  into a school of
Barracuda.
Dropping to between 12 and 18 metres puts you onto a small
plateau where you feel you are floating in an aquarium. There is mostly hard
coral at this point with many giant clams, and the area is teeming with a large
variety of tropical fish, anemone, clown trigger fish, manta rays, trevally,
napoleon, tuna and moray eels. Schools of fusilier often follow you around.
At 18 metres a wall of soft coral begins as the Advanced Diver drops off
the plateau and this is where the reef sharks like to hide out. Visibility on
this dive is usually excellent.
APOLIMA GARDENS 
About 70m
from the prehistorically rugged sheer cliffs of Apolima Island, you plunge into
a wonderland of color and life.
Appropriately named, the coral garden
begins at about 8metres. As you follow the reef, it is possible to go to
40metres, but unless you have done this dive many times there is really no need
with so much to see between 10 and 20 metres. Large table corals screen the
lobsters and rainbow runners, unicorn fish, turtles, napoleon, reef sharks and
blue fin trevally are a staple of this dive. This is a drift dive, with the
same excellent visibility as THE ROCK from which no one has yet come away
disappointed.
MANONO REEF
 Just off the lagoon surrounding
Manono Island the reef falls to around 40 metres in a wall of colorful soft and
hard corals and an abundance of anemone fish. This is a dive for those who love
canyons and swim throughs - you will have the feeling of being in another
world.
Home to a number of large turtles there is something for everyone on
this dive.
With the number of dive sites along this wall you could keep
coming back here and experience something new each time.
LAUMEI
CANYON 
Laumei - the Samoan word for Turtle gives you the idea of what
you will expect to see on this dive. This dive can be done as a shallow or a
deep dive. Like Manono Reef there are both hard and soft corals, and the
canyons provide an easy and relaxing route to take amongst the pinnacles and
walls. In the crevices you can expect to see Hawks Bill and Green Turtles as
well as many varieties of tropical and reef fish.
Other Favorite Dive Sites include:
THREE
SISTERS * CIRCUS * WALL STREET * FISHMARKET * BUCKS AND MORE
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islands that make up
Samoa are surrounded by reef and encircled by beautiful turquoise blue lagoons.
Outside and along this reef, there are a number of outstanding 
Even if you have never dived before you can
discover the wonders of the deep in one of the most pristine and unspoiled
underwater environments of the world. Diving amongst canyons, walls,
swim-throughs and coral gardens you will see schools of barracuda and tuna,
turtles, reef sharks, moray eels and rays as well as plenty of tropical fish
and striking coral. 
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