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| Black Rock |
Dive Site: Black Rock Depth:
40-90 feet Location: West Shore Visibility:
40+ feet Level: Beginner - Advanced Sea Life: Large
resident eels, squirrel fish, snapper, octopus, tubastra (cop) coral
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| Black Rock is a wall
dive 40-90 feet deep with a large cavernous room approximately 100
feet long and 50 feet wide. The mooring buoy at this site takes
the diver down to 55ft and the top of the rock extension. One side
of the room is completely eroded allowing easy multiple entry and
exit points. The free drop over the adjacent wall to 90' takes you
to a huge underwater cavern open on three sides. Very often white-tip
reef sharks and/or turtles will be resting under this large overhang.
Beautiful hard coral polyps live on the ceiling as well as the occasionally
spiny lobster or Kona crab. Be careful not to kick up sand in the
cave so the visibility stays good. Traveling towards shore from
the cave to the dive proceeds along the bottom of the wall until
the turnaround air limits are reached, at which point divers return
along the other side of the "Black Rock". |
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| Water Temperature:
70/75 F, 21/24 C from November to April
75/80 F, 24/27 C from May to October |