Abalone

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What you'll see (21)

Blue DragonPteraeolidia semperiseen 11× near here

Green Sea TurtleChelonia mydasseen 6× near here

Ocypode celadonseen 6× near here

SharksuckerEcheneis naucratesseen 5× near here

little leaf-sheepCostasiella kuroshimaeseen 5× near here

Ceratodoris nakamotoensisseen 5× near here

Gymnodoris nigricolorseen 4× near here

Sixbar WrasseThalassoma hardwickeseen 4× near here

Lagoon TriggerfishRhinecanthus aculeatusseen 4× near here

Loch's ChromodorisChromodoris lochiseen 4× near here

Banded Sea UrchinEchinothrix calamarisseen 3× near here

Peacock GrouperCephalopholis argusseen 3× near here

Reticulidia suzanneaeseen 3× near here

Sky Blue PhyllidiaPhyllidia coelestisseen 3× near here

Humpback SnapperLutjanus gibbusseen 3× near here

Lined BristletoothCtenochaetus striatusseen 3× near here

Sea Fan NudibranchPleurolidia juliaeseen 3× near here

Arabian Monocle BreamScolopsis ghanamseen 3× near here

African ChromodoridChromodoris africanaseen 3× near here

Rabbit Sapsucking SlugCostasiella usagiseen 3× near here

Blackbarred DemoiselleAmblypomacentrus annulatusseen 3× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

6,667km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. the only logged site in the area.

When people dive it

Busiest May, Sep, Dec.

From 3,233 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

70% 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

~18h 33m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightNosy Be, Madagascar (NOS)~10h 57mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~5h 6mRoad 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 boatAbalone~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Abalone on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Nosy Be, Madagascar

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: Grande-Terre
Country: Mayotte
Marks: 12°55.591'S 45°6.066'E
Position: -12.9265, 45.1011

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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.