Enderbury Reef Plateau
Dive site
Enderbury is a flat uninhabited island ringed by a reef plateau that drops to a rubble slope before meeting the wall at 25 metres. The plateau is exceptional — dense table corals at 6 to 12 metres shelter enormous populations of surgeonfish, unicornfish, and parrotfish, while giant grouper hold territories under table overhangs. Research teams from the New England Aquarium have catalogued fish biomass here as among the highest ever recorded in the Pacific.
Conditions
Depth
3 to 35 m
Advanced depths
Current
Variable
Can pick up on the edge
Visibility
25 to 40 m
Clearest in the calm season
Water
26 to 30°C
Tropical wetsuit
Month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water (°C) | 27 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 27 | 27 |
| Vis (m) | 20 | 20 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
| Current | Gentle | Gentle | Gentle | calm | calm | calm | calm | calm | Gentle | Gentle | Gentle | Gentle |
Your chances of seeing each animal
Giant grouper
Photo: Ian Banks · CC BY-NC
Sometimes
About 1 in 3 dives
Bumphead parrotfish
Photo: Mark Rosenstein · CC BY-NC
Sometimes
About 1 in 3 dives
Bluestreak cleaner wrasse
Photo: Hickson Fergusson · © all rights reserved
Sometimes
About 1 in 3 dives
Grey reef shark
Photo: Luis P. B. · CC BY-NC
Sometimes
About 1 in 3 dives
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