Jessie Beazley Reef

Isolated mushroom of reef rising from deep water in the Sulu Sea, roughly 20 km north of the main Tubbataha atolls. The reef cap sits at 7 to 12 m and is carpeted in Acropora and lettuce corals before plunging into a sheer wall that drops past recreational limits. Corner currents stack schooling jacks, barracuda and unicornfish against the wall, while whitetip and grey reef sharks rest on the sand at the base. Tuna, Napoleon wrasse and eagle rays pass through, and hammerheads occasionally cruise the blue in deeper water. Added to the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park in 2006, it is dived only on calm days during the March through June liveaboard window.