Pyramid

Named for a cluster of concrete pyramid-shaped artificial reef structures deployed in the early 2000s to encourage coral recruitment on the otherwise barren black sand slope off Amed village. The pyramids have worked: each structure is now layered in soft corals, encrusting sponges, and Christmas tree worms, and the artificial complexity attracts an outsized density of macro life relative to the surrounding slope. Flamboyant cuttlefish hunting on the sandy areas between structures are a signature encounter here, alongside frogfish in three or four colour morphs, thorny seahorses anchored to the pyramid frames, and mimic octopus emerging at dusk. The site is most productive on a relaxed muck-style dive at 12 to 22 metres.