Recife Itacepanema

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A named reef from the chart, not a dive site anyone has told us about. It may be a great dive or a sandbar at low tide. If you dive it, log the dive here so the crew knows.

What you'll see (11)

Mangrove Root CrabGoniopsis cruentataseen 2× near here

French AngelfishPomacanthus paruseen 1× near here

Atlantic Sergeant MajorAbudefduf saxatilisseen 1× near here

PorkfishAnisotremus virginicusseen 1× near here

spotted seahareAplysia dactylomelaseen 1× near here

Greenback ParrotfishScarus trispinosusseen 1× near here

Five-slotted Sand DollarMellita quinquiesperforataseen 1× near here

Mangrove PeriwinkleLittoraria anguliferaseen 1× near here

Checkered PufferSphoeroides testudineusseen 1× near here

Clibanarius symmetricusseen 1× near here

Microeuraphia rhizophoraeseen 1× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

15,616km 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 Jan, Sep · almost nobody dives it Apr.

From 323 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

~40h 18m

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~14h 18mRoad 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 boatRecife Itacepanema~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Recife Itacepanema 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

Country: Brazil
Marks: 16°15.000'S 38°58.000'W
Position: -16.2500, -38.9667

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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.