Monsanto Boxes

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What you'll see (10)

Green Sea TurtleChelonia mydasseen 2× near here

Atlantic Crevalle JackCaranx hipposseen 1× near here

Atlantic SpadefishChaetodipterus faberseen 1× near here

Gray SnapperLutjanus griseusseen 1× near here

Kemp's Ridley Sea TurtleLepidochelys kempiiseen 1× near here

SnakefishTrachinocephalus myopsseen 1× near here

Gulf FlounderParalichthys albiguttaseen 1× near here

Scaled SardineHarengula jaguanaseen 1× near here

Western Gulf Stone CrabMenippe adinaseen 1× near here

Intermediate Musk TurtleSternotherus intermediusseen 1× near here

Planning a trip

8–13 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

16,316km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 12 dive sites within 25km, enough for several days of diving.

When people dive it

Busiest May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Dec.

From 3,630 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

Dive Crew is a dive group from Singapore. Members plan trips here, log their dives, and share their photos of each site.

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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

~41h 33m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightKey West (EYW)~25h 15mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~13h 48mRoad 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 boatMonsanto Boxes~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Monsanto Boxes on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Key West

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

Country: United States
Marks: 30°11.972'N 87°14.753'W
Position: 30.1995, -87.2459

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Where it is

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Nearby

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.