Banc du Héron

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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 (13)

Bluespotted Fantail RayTaeniura lymmaseen 2× near here

MilkfishChanos chanosseen 1× near here

Black SurgeonfishAcanthurus gahhmseen 1× near here

Triplespot ShrimpgobyAmblyeleotris triguttataseen 1× near here

Montipora verrucosaseen 1× near here

Rusty ParrotfishScarus ferrugineusseen 1× near here

Mackerel TunaEuthynnus affinisseen 1× near here

White-spotted Eagle RayAetobatus ocellatusseen 1× near here

Steinitz's ShrimpgobyAmblyeleotris steinitziseen 1× near here

Warty SlugPeronia verruculataseen 1× near here

Blackstriped CardinalfishOstorhinchus nigrofasciatusseen 1× near here

Red Sea ghost crabOcypode saratanseen 1× near here

Many-Banded PipefishDunckerocampus multiannulatusseen 1× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

6,787km 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 Apr, Nov · almost nobody dives it Mar, Jun, Jul, Aug, Oct.

From 97 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

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

~12h 3m

door to water, each way · 2 legs

FlightDjibouti (JIB)~11h 33mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Dive boatBanc du Héron~30 minThe sites are a short boat ride from the resort jetties.

📍 Banc du Héron on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Djibouti

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: Djibouti
Marks: 11°37.183'N 43°8.433'E
Position: 11.6197, 43.1406

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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.