M̄angéa ni Élao Reef

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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 (6)

Tawny Hermit CrabCoenobita rugosusseen 2× near here

Eastern Triangle ButterflyfishChaetodon baronessaseen 1× near here

Forceps ButterflyfishForcipiger flavissimusseen 1× near here

Episcopal MitreMitra mitraseen 1× near here

Lagoon Brittle StarOphiocoma scolopendrinaseen 1× near here

Common Spider ConchLambis lambisseen 1× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

7,378km 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 Jun, Aug, Sep · almost nobody dives it Jan, Feb, Mar.

From 381 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

69% 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 57m

door to water, each way · 3 legs

FlightPort Vila (VLI)~12h 18mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~9 minFor the President Coolidge, which is a shore entry off Espiritu Santo.Directions →
Dive boatM̄angéa ni Élao Reef~30 minThe last leg is always a boat — a dive site has no address.

📍 M̄angéa ni Élao Reef on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Port Vila

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: Vanuatu
Marks: 17°32.417'S 168°27.583'E
Position: -17.5403, 168.4597

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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.