Shark Cave is a wicked cave with chambers, caverns and even a tunnel that exits the island.

Name Dive Site:	Shark Cave
Depth:	5-25m (16-82ft)
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The larger and middle of the three islands is the one with the cave that has made the dive site famous. The cave starts as a large cavern entrance on the northwest corner of the island at 5m below the surface and drops down to 16m deep. The cavern gradually narrows inside until forming a tunnel about 20m long through to the east side of the island. There is a smaller tunnel chamber accessed by a meter wide hole. Large tawny nurse sharks are the most common sharks seen in the tunnel. Grey reef sharks are also seen on the outside of the tunnel and some divers encounter them as they swim through the tunnel which can get the heart pounding a little faster. Although grey reef sharks have been known to show aggression to divers, as long as you stay low and to one side of the tunnel and allow the sharks' free passage, there should be no problems. Surge can make current difficult to navigate at times.

The cavern entrance is full of fish including longfin trevally, yellow tail barracuda, cave sweepers and glassfish. Lionfish and bearded scorpionfish also frequent the cave. Shrimps and nudibranchs are also numerous and a good dive light will help to illuminate the darker crevices. Also look out for moray eels in the cracks between sponge encrusted rock and zigzag clams.

Most divers exit the tunnel on the east side and turn left to the north where a sloping reef down to 25m is covered with hard and soft corals, sea fans and feather stars. Magnificent anemones are home to the western clownfish and carpet anemones to Clark's anemonefish. Pink anemone fish and tomato anemone fish are also present. On the edge of the reef in the sand it is common to see double ended pipefish. In the sea fans, ornate ghost pipefish and seahorses can be found. Common and twin spot lionfish are numerous. Banded sea snakes are often seen hunting over the reef. All the usual reef fish including schools of snapper and fusiliers plus sweetlips and wrasse are abundant.

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