Kadmat East Wall

Kadmat Island's eastern reef edge falls almost vertically from 4 m down to beyond 45 m — one of the most dramatic wall profiles in the Lakshadweep chain. The upper 20 m are covered in healthy hard corals including large Porites colonies with decades of growth rings visible on older specimens; below 25 m the wall transitions to sea fans, whip corals, and scattered tubastraea cup corals that fluoresce orange at depth. Grey reef sharks patrol the mid-wall at 18 to 30 m, and eagle rays pass in the blue water off the wall's edge. The site is directly exposed to the northeast swell, which means the wall generates productive upwellings that attract large baitfish schools and their attendant trevally and tuna. Current dives from north to south along the wall during the flood produce some of the fastest drift dives in Lakshadweep.