The furthest dive site from the island jetty is a 10 minutes' ride in a dive boat. South Point is similar to Barracuda Point, as currents sweep across the reef. Depending on the drift, it is best to start your dive with the reef on your left. The reef topography follows a gentle slope from about 7 to 55 metres at the sandy bottom shelf.

Here, chances are usually good to sight big fish: manta rays, leopard sharks, Napoleon wrasses, groupers and a kaleidoscope of smaller reef fish abound. Assuming you are diving with the wall on your left, you will come across sea fans and sea whip corals at 25 metres' depth.

You might also encounter a school of jacks, prior to a dark, cloud of mass approaching - this is the largest school of barracudas to be seen anywhere. The school usually swims against the current, and if approached cautiously, will permit divers to swim alongside. Further along the sloping wall at about 25 metres is a ledge with coral rubble, where white tip sharks and leopard sharks rest on the bottom. If you dive this spot often and at the right time, you may chance upon observing the mating ritual of white tip sharks.

# posted by kamals @ 10:27 AM