Seven Sisters

The Tasu II is the deep end of the site. She sits upright on her keel on the sandy bottom in about 28 m, next to the coral pinnacles, roughly 30 m from bow to stern, and dives usually drop to around 25 m to work her over. Chevron barracuda circle above the wreck, groupers hide out inside the superstructure, and lionfish, pipefish and nudibranchs have made a sanctuary of the hull. Zebra sharks are often found resting on the sand just out from the pinnacles.

From the wreck the dive moves onto the coral. A network of seven separate pinnacles makes up the sisters, and their shallower ends, between 5 m and 10 m, carry reef fish, turtles and whitetip reef sharks. Octopus, flatworms, shrimp, moray eels, gobies, basslets, anthias and crinoids all work the rock, so this is a site that rewards slowing down between the towers rather than covering all seven.

The final sister holds the longest passage on the site: you enter the swim-through at 14 m and come out at 8 m in the middle of the pinnacle cluster. That puts you in the shallows with gas in hand for the last of the dive, where whitetip and blacktip reef sharks pass through and the water between the towers is the easiest place to hold position and watch.