The top 5 dive and snorkel sites in Manihi, ranked by diver reviews, with maps and photos. Read the Manihi guide
This is the place to meet Mantas. They used to swin within 10m of water all year long! This is also a good dive to meet napoleon wrass, black-tip sharks, and eagle rays. The circus dive site is located just between the Tairapa pass and the lagoon. The Circus is also known as Le cirque.
The visibility is incredible (> 50m !!!). Marine life is great including sea turtles, grey sharks and blacktip sharks, barracudas and groupers, jacks and trigger fish... Just west from the airport.
Great "drift dive" through the in-coming current with Tuna, Barracudas, grey sharks, blacktip sharks, jacks, napoléon wrasse, trigger fish, morey eels, groupers and of course manta and eagle rays. Tairapa is the only pass of Manihi, located on the southwest side of the atoll. Tairapa Pass is also known as From the wall to the circus.
Incredible wall running down to 1500 m !!! Many different marine species including barracudas, grey sharks, blacktip and whitetip sharks, napoleon wrasse, trigger fish and large school tang surgeon fish and snappers... Southwest corner of Tairapa pass.
This is a large break in the reef where sometime dive center plan some shark feeding that attracts reef sharks (black-tip, white-tip, grey). On the south side, between the Tairapa pass and the soutwest point of Manihi. The Break is also known as La faille.
