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One grey shark with dark-edged fins swimming through open blue water, seen from below with the rippled surface above — Bora Bora

Bora Bora · French Polynesia · Reef

Haapiti

Shallow craters in a gentle drop-off, with blacktip and lemon sharks

Area photo: The original uploader was Dlloyd at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0

Haapiti is an ocean dive on a gently sloping drop-off outside the barrier reef. Shallow craters in the reef hold a more varied fauna than the slope around them, and blacktip and lemon sharks are common along the drop-off.

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Where it is and how deep

Depth profile of Haapiti: typical dive to 30 m (to 100 ft) 18 m · Open Water30 m · Advanced40 m · Recreational limit30 mtypical dive
Depths on a shared scale to 40 m (130 ft); dashed lines mark common certification limits.

No published position for this site — the map shows Bora Bora and its other sites; operators know the mooring.

The dive

From the mooring at about 9 m (30 ft) the dive follows a gently sloping drop-off down to 30 m (100 ft). The shallow craters along it are where the fauna is richest, narrow canyons cut into the reef nearby, and blacktip and lemon sharks move along the slope.

Marine life and season

  • Lemon sharks
  • Reef sharks
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Season follows Bora Bora: The dry May to October months are the high season, though the trade winds sometimes blow strongly; November to April is the wet season.

Dive videos

Diving Bora Bora’s Outer Reef: Haapiti Hidden Craters & Fish ID 🤿 · Talk to the Fish on YouTube

Sources

  1. Bora Bora – Diving in the South Sea Paradise — One Million Places

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