Moorea · French Polynesia · Coral garden · Reef
Eden Park
Coral garden with sharks, turtles and barracuda, to 29 m
Area photo: DANIEL JULIE from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0
Eden Park is a coral garden off Moorea's north coast, catalogued with a maximum depth of 29 m. The published description is brief: coral with sharks, turtles and barracuda over it, and clownfish in their anemones, on a site rated as diveable from Open Water or Level 1. The position sits outside the fringing reef, so it is reached by boat.
Where it is and how deep
17.4776° S, 149.8495° WPublished position for this site.
The dive
No mooring, entry point or route is published for this site, and nothing on currents or visibility either, so the shape of the dive is set on the day by the boat crew, who pick the drop and the direction according to conditions. What the entry does fix is the terrain and the depth range: a coral garden rather than a wall or a pass, with 29 m as the deepest ground under you.
Twenty-nine metres puts the bottom of the site well below where a newly certified diver normally works, even though the entry rates it as accessible from Open Water and Level 1. Treat the deep section as the short part of the dive, watch gas and no-decompression time while you are on it, and spend the back half shallow over the coral, where the anemones and their clownfish are and where the sharks, turtles and barracuda in the description are most likely to pass.
Marine life and season
- Reef sharks
- Sea turtles
- Barracuda
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fair | Fair | Fair | Good | Good | Good | Good | Prime | Prime | Prime | Good | Fair |
Season follows Moorea: Aug-Oct brings breeding humpback whales; the rest of the year stays warm with consistent reef and shark diving, aside from occasional Dec-Mar cyclone-season swell.
Know before you go
- The 29 m maximum sits at the deep end of recreational diving: gas and no-decompression time go quickly there, so keep the deep part of the dive short and finish shallow.
Dive videos
Eden Park Moorea Island Tahiti with Santa · AdventuresWithSanta on YouTube
Questions divers ask
How deep is Eden Park?+
The Scubago / SSI MyDiveGuide entry gives a maximum depth of 29 m and rates the site as diveable from Open Water or Level 1. No minimum depth or profile is published, so the shallow end of the dive depends on the route the boat crew picks.
Sources
- Eden Park - Scubago dive site guide — Scubago (SSI MyDiveGuide)
In The Logbook
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