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Map & photos courtesy of Meeru Island Resort and Ocean-Pro Dive Team

MEERU REGION

MEERU HOUSEREEF
Search the sand for pipefish, razor wrasse, peacock flounder, garden eels and shrimp gobies. Threadfin butterflyfish and damselfish prefer to hang out around the coral blocks. There is also a small wreck at about 100 ft.

MEERU BERU
A coral plateau at about 30 ft houses morays and anemones, and attracts large schools of humpback snapper, blue-striped snapper, and oriental sweetlips. Search the coral blocks on the plateau for scorpionfish, lionfish and octopus. The plateau drops to a depth of around 100 ft. This is where white-tip reef sharks and stingrays like to hide.

FAIRY TALE
Two huge caverns covered with soft corals hide nudibranchs, flatworms, blennies, gobies, morays & banded boxer shrimp. Schools of fusiliers are all around. Between August and November a reef flat just above Fairy Tale serves as a manta cleaning station.

WEST ROCK
This popular site features a sandy slope and a reef flat. You'll see pink-faced checkerboard wrasse, yellow-saddled goatfish, peacock flounder, garden eels, & white-tip reef sharks. A small cargo freighter sits on a sandy plateau at about 75 ft. As you round the bend to the north side, coral and rock formations provide an interesting backdrop for angelfish, colorful basslets, midnight snapper, butterflyfish and harlequin & oriental sweetlips. Leaffish and lionfish can be spotted in the cracks & crevices.

WEST SADDLE
This spot, not far from the Meeru jetty, features an extended reef with plenty of nooks & crannies to explore. You'll see schools of snapper, glassfish, turtles, leaffish, frogfish, scorpionfish, lionfish, stonefish, fusiliers, moorish idols and bannerfish. The base of the wall is at about 75 feet. White-tips and stingrays congregate here on the sandy bottom.