The Pagodas

The guide marks The Pagodas with two positions about half a kilometre apart south-east of Vaka'eitu, so it is a stretch of ground rather than one feature. The northern of the two sits roughly 40 metres from the position given for the Lua Tofua'a reef, which puts the two on effectively the same piece of ground and means they are reached the same way — a short boat or dinghy run from the anchorages on Lape and Vaka'eitu. What the guide records here is the coral structure itself, standing in 10 to 60 feet of water, or roughly 3 to 18 metres.

That depth range shapes the dive more than any route does. Drop onto the structures at the shallow end, work down the face of them to the 18-metre floor, and spend the back half of the dive back up in the 3-metre shallows where the air lasts longest. No site-specific figures for visibility, current or marine life are published for The Pagodas, so treat the area's general conditions as the working assumption and confirm with whoever is running the boat.