Cape Maeda Cavern

Cape Maeda is Okinawa's most photographed dive site, famous for a cathedral cavern whose ceiling pierces the surface allowing sunbeams to illuminate the interior. Two entry tunnels lead divers into a large cavern chamber colonised by sea fans, sponges, and glassfish. Outside the cavern, a shallow reef terrace at 5 to 10 metres transitions to a sloping wall reaching 25 metres. Moray eels, lionfish, and hawksbill turtles frequent the wall crevices, while macro subjects including ghost pipefish and nudibranchs appear on the rubble slope.