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Location:
North of Sombrero Island at the northern end of Maricaban strait.
Access:
15 min. by boar from EAGLE POINT pier Southwest across the Maricaban Strait.
Conditions:
Generally calm, with strong currents, but this site is exposed enough to
get very rough at times. Best dived at times of neap tides. Visibility
can reach 25m (80ft).
Average depth:
14m (45ft)
Maximum depth:
27m (90ft)
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Beatrice
Rock offers a series of short drop-offs with channels in between, from
5m(16ft) to 27m (90ft), and a pinnacle rising from 14m (45ft) to 8m (25ft).
There are large barrel sponges, good gorgonians, black corals, soft corals,
stony corals, anemones with clownfish, nudibranchs and sea stars. The site
is densely populated with just about all the reef fish you could expect,
including shoals of triggerfish, snappers, surgeonfish, jacks and anthias.
Occasionally, turtles and Blue-ringed Octopuses have seen here. |
