Anibare Bay Wall

Anibare Bay on Nauru's eastern coast offers the island's most accessible wall dive, beginning at around 5 metres at the reef crest and plunging vertically past 40 metres into open ocean. The wall face is draped in enormous sea fans and black coral trees below 20 metres, and the hard coral cover on the upper sections is among the healthiest found on any Pacific island that lacks a permanent dive industry. Grey reef sharks patrol the wall edge in groups, and schools of big-eye trevally and surgeonfish layer the reef in dense aggregations. The site is relatively sheltered from the dominant westerly swells and diveable for much of the year, though it is best in the austral dry season from May through September when visibility regularly reaches 30 to 40 metres.