Rochedos dos Calhaus

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What you'll see (21)

SquirrelfishHolocentrus adscensionisseen 3× near here

Dusky GrouperEpinephelus marginatusseen 3× near here

French AngelfishPomacanthus paruseen 2× near here

Spotfin HogfishBodianus pulchellusseen 2× near here

Rio Brain CoralMussismilia hispidaseen 2× near here

DoctorfishAcanthurus chirurgusseen 2× near here

Slate Pencil UrchinEucidaris tribuloidesseen 1× near here

Atlantic SpadefishChaetodipterus faberseen 1× near here

Spanish HogfishBodianus rufusseen 1× near here

PorkfishAnisotremus virginicusseen 1× near here

TomtateHaemulon aurolineatumseen 1× near here

Brazilian WrasseHalichoeres brasiliensisseen 1× near here

PalometaTrachinotus goodeiseen 1× near here

Variegated Sea UrchinLytechinus variegatusseen 1× near here

Little TunnyEuthynnus alletteratusseen 1× near here

Whitespotted FilefishCantherhines macrocerusseen 1× near here

Sand TilefishMalacanthus plumieriseen 1× near here

Mat ZoanthidZoanthus pulchellusseen 1× near here

Atlantic Rock-boring UrchinEchinometra lucunterseen 1× near here

Silver TrevallyPseudocaranx dentexseen 1× near here

Engel's FlabellinaFlabellina engeliseen 1× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

15,899km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 3 dive sites within 25km.

When people dive it

Busiest Jan · almost nobody dives it Feb, Mar, Jun, Jul, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec.

From 76 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

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Moon and tides

Waning gibbous

71% lit · day 20 of the lunar month

Neap tides

Neap tides — the smallest range of the month, so the weakest currents. Easy conditions and usually the clearest water, though a drift site may barely drift.

New 10 Oct Full 26 Oct

Phase computed here, not fetched. This is the spring/neap cycle, which sets how hard the water moves — not a tide table: no free source publishes high and low water for Southeast Asian reefs, and the range peaks a day or two after the moon does, by an amount that varies with the coast. For times on the day, ask the operator.

Getting there

~30h 57m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightRio de Janeiro (GIG)~23h 30mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~4h 57mRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Ferrythe crossing~2hAt this distance the last stretch is a scheduled crossing rather than a dive boat, so book it before the flight — a missed sailing usually costs a day. Which crossing it is has been worked out from the distance and not from a timetable; ask the operator.
Dive boatRochedos dos Calhaus~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Rochedos dos Calhaus on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Rio de Janeiro

Times marked ~ are estimated from straight-line distance and will be roughly right at best. The road legs are the ones Google Maps answers properly; it will not plan the ferry or the dive boat at all. A dive site's coordinates put a pin in open water, so the map link drops you on the site, not on a jetty.

Details

Island: Laje de Santos
Country: Brazil
Marks: 24°19.795'S 46°9.751'W
Position: -24.3299, -46.1625

Where it is

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Nearby

Laje de Santos2km

Sightings and photographs from iNaturalist contributors, research-grade records within 6km, under Creative Commons licences. Counts are what divers and snorkellers have bothered to log — a common fish with few records is common all the same.