taken looking around the reef.
It’s also a great site for beginning
divers or even as an intro dive for
total newbies trying out diving
during their vacation. There’s so
much to see at Dap Dap, including
the occasional shoals of barracuda,
a good collection of colorful
nudibranchs, sea spiders hiding in
black coral trees and marauding,
crunching schools of big bumphead
parrotfish. The corals are both hard
and soft with nice leather corals
and their flowing tentacles.
- Birhen E. & W. House Reef
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Location: Amun Ini Resort
Depth: 15-100ft. (4-30m)
These are the sites in front of the
Amun Ini dive shop and they are a
very short boat ride (like two
minutes) to get to the reef. But the
site is a good spot for all kinds of
creatures including sea turtles,
schools of fusiliers and snappers
and nice coral growth. The fish
come to Birhen East because it has
some currents but not usually
anything too stiff. Birhen West
features steep underwater walls
filled with vibrant corals. This is
another one of the sites that has a
lot of fish due to good current flow.
Occasionally, a lucky boat of
divers will happen onto a floating
mass of Sargassum weed. These
thick carpets hold all kind of sea
creatures from a special kind of
frogfish that is well-camouflaged
with this weed, seahorses and
cryptic nudibranchs. It is possible
April through June or whenever the
prevailing currents decide to bring
this floating mass in close to shore.Blue-ring octopus