Palau Dive Sites

Palau is world renown for marine bio-diversity and an abundance of large pelagic animals that includes schools of sharks and lots of manta rays. Our warm clear tropical waters are legendary amongst divers for dramatic coral encrusted walls rising from the depths to within inches of the surface. Home to over 1,300 species of fish and more than 700 species of coral, Palau also offers exciting wreck diving with one of the Pacific's largest collection of intact WWII shipwrecks and plane wrecks.

Palau is a divers dream! A true “one stop shop” when it comes to diving! From sheltered coral gardens filled with colorful reef fishes and lots of turtles to current swept plateaus patrolled by schools of sharks and barracudas, Palau offers a wide and wonderful range of diving for divers of every interest and skill level. Healthy reefs, stunning walls, beautiful hard corals and soft corals, lots of sharks, huge mantas, turtles on every dive and huge schools of fish, tiny seahorses, elusive mandarin fish and lots and lots of tiny critters, all topped off with an amazing collection of WWII wrecks!  Whatever your diving pleasure, level of interest or experience level, Palau diving is sure to please!

The majority of diving in Palau consists of drift diving along the beautiful walls, plateaus and coral gardens of the outer barrier reef, a forty minute boat ride through the picturesque rock islands. While you dive the boat follows along from the surface to meet you upon ascent.

  Photos by Kevin Davidson

Here's what the experts say from Scuba Diving Magazine about Palau!

"READER'S CHOICE AWARDS 2008"

Palau, Micronesia FIRST PLACE

• Dive Destination
• Marine Life
• Big Animal Encounters
• Wall Diving
• Underwater Photography
• Advanced Diving

TOP THREE

• Top Macro Life
• Top Value

TOP FIVE

• Top Healthiest Marine Environment
• Top Wreck Diving

Sam's Tours will proudly welcome Kids Sea Camp. Guests of Kids Sea Camp will dive the famed sites of Palau. There are many to choose from but rest assured that each and every dive will be one never to forget. Here are some of the sites you will visit

BLUE CORNER - This site has been voted consistently as one of the top dive sites in the world. It is also Palau's most famous and most popular dive site. Blue Corner has it all! The corner is a shallow plateau. The currents running across this plateau generate an amazing food web. It is the food rich waters that attract the amazing amount of larger fish and sharks to this area. Quite literally there is too much going on here for a diver to cover in a single dive. Divers will see sharks, king mackerel, dogtooth tuna, giant trevally, schools of big eyed jacks and barracuda, spotted eagle rays, turtles and napoleon wrasse.

ULONG CHANNEL - This is probably the favorite dive among the local divers here. Ulong is a false channel (meaning it does not go all the way through). This dive is usually done on an incoming tide. At the mouth of the channel divers will find grey and white-tip reef sharks, schooling spadefish, black snapper, gold-spotted trevally and other pelagic species. As divers enter the channel the amazing sites of Ulong begin to shine. The ride through the channel is much like an amusement ride with lots of small fish, sharks, pompano, grouper and barramundi. The coral life is amazing on this part of the dive with a stand of lettuce coral that is rare to see. There are also a large number of giant clams along the route.

GERMAN CHANNEL - This site is one of the most popular sites in Palau. It sits at the mouth of a shallow lagoon leading to an inner lagoon. Divers are here for the main attraction... Mantas! The channel provides plenty of plankton for them to feed and cleaning stations close by. It is very common to have several mantas show up on a dive. Divers also see schooling jacks, sharks (even the shy leopard shark) and often feathertail stingrays and thorny rays. Mantas always seem to be the talk of shop when the dive day is finished!

HELMET WRECK - This wreck is minutes away from Sam's dock. The Helmut wreck is 191ft. long cargo ship that was carrying depth charges during WWII. Remarkably none of the charges ever went off when it was sunk. This is a great wreck dive. Divers will see everything from aircraft engines, brass lanterns, china and the remains of the charges. It is how it was all those years ago. One not to be missed

KSC guests will have many more amazing sites to dive here in Palau! There are far too many to list but each one delivers the dive of a lifetime. Palau has been named one of the 8 underwater wonders of the world and is not to be missed!








 

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