medu kandu

overview, location                                     

 

Depth:  5 - 32 m


Fish Live: batfish, groups of oriental sweetlips, schools of corralled and pyramid butterfly fish, sabre squirrelfish, seargent fish, whitetip reef sharks, eagle rays


Coral Growth: beautiful stone corals


North-east monsoon season mostly ingoing current, start dive on the outer reef to your left; stay in the upper part in the beginning, then as sand beds start go deeper; the real entrance of the channels starts after passing the third arena, where you’ll find a big mushroom coral whit sweetlips, sabre squirrelfish and groupers; the current is leading you into channel, try to stay close to the reef as current may drag you away


Safety: advise the divers not to start their dive too deep, because the reef flat comes not higher up than about 10 – 13 m
 

 Map of the Dive Site                                                 

 

Experience Level: not ideal for beginners, if dive shouldn’t be deeper than 18 m


Features: nice landscape with its three sand arenas, where garden eels can be watched


Specialty: at the edge of the terrace there are some overhangs, between 30 and 37 whitetip reef sharks patrol at the entrance of the channel with ingoing current; otherwise often found on the sand bed sleeping


South-west monsoon season: mostly outgoing current, start dive on the outer to your left; as the channel itself is not very interesting, it is better to stay on the outside in the arenas; make a u-turn at entrance and swim back over the reef flat; if the current at the outer reef is very strongly reef to the right, it’s better to jump in the channel (depth between 6 -10 m), drift along with the current and continue dive to your right


Photography: wide-angel or macro lenses; both is suitable