- Location: North Male Atoll
- Site Depth: 40 meters
- Site Visibility: Variable
- Currents: Can be strong
- Difficulty Rating: Intermediate
In the southwest season an astonishing number of manta rays can be seen here when they come in to be cleaned. The top of the reef is at 12m ((40ft); the reef then slopes gently down to 40m (130ft). It is interspersed with massive porites corals that are home to the colonies of cleaner fish.
The manta rays come in from the deep water and hover over the coral heads while the wrasse set to work. To ensure the best sighting you need to be patient and position yourself close to, but not on top of, the coral heads. If you do not crowd the mantas they will perform their cleaning ritual in front of your eyes. It is common for encounters to last half an hour or more, but if you try to touch the mantas you will scare them away. Should you be unlucky enough not to see mantas, this is still a tremendous dive site: huge schools of bullseye fish, oriental sweetlips and napoleon wrasse, plus heaps of turtles and various species of moray eels.