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With some imagination, the two large coral outcrops at Two Ridges looks like a sunken upside down catamaran hull. Kat the dugong was a regular visitor to this site.

This is a wreck dive site of a sunken Sri Lankan people smuggler. The vessel carried a load of refugees to the Australian mainland. Coast Watch photographed the vessel, however, it was unable to apprehend while in Australian waters. A week later she arrived at Cocos Islands claiming to be poor lost fishermen.

Popular site for all levels of divers. Lots to see on top of the reef shallower than 20m. Experienced divers can venture out into the blue to swim with the black trevally and look down at the cruising sharks and dogtooth tuna. The expert diver can slip down the wall to 40m to enjoy the fans and a cave.

This is an anchoring site near Two Caves. Look for old communication cables connecting Direction Island to Australia and the world. Sadly it appears that Kat the dugong may have moved on to green sea grass pastures.

Lots of historic equipment on the bottom here for those who need iron in their diving diet. Several cables from Direction island, plus 2 large winches that we assume were used to pull the cables ashore from the ship. Also plenty of coral and fish for those not interested in man made “junk.“

Easy dive site for new and not yet qualified divers. Descend to the 8m bottom. Explore the reef and rubble-filled bottom out towards the drop-off. Then work on those navigation skills on the return to the dive boat.

Royal Dalton. Amazing old large plate corals, some no longer with us. Now look for the new growth replacing what was previous. Enjoy three ways: Slip down the wall to 22m and look up into the corals above you. As you run out of bottom time get close, then drift back to the boat mid water.

For many years this was a manta cleaning station. For some unknown reason, the mantas no longer use this site. It is a popular training site for new divers. Keep it in your log book however most likely to dive the new cleaning station.

Popular snorkel site close to Direction Island. Local mantas favor this site for their regular cleaning. Two small coral outcrops at 9m home for the cleaning wrasse needed for this vital service.

Perfect first dive for our Cocos Dive Open Water Student. Sandy bottom with reef for the new diver to explore. Easy navigation, clean water, and marine life. Lots of branching corals.