FIVE MILE REEF (15 - 48) METERS🤿

Photo Credit: 📸 Niel Cillie 😎

Five mile reef is a captivating vast area.  The known sites that we often dive and can't get enough of are Pothole, Fusiliers, Ribbon, Lettuce or Uniform, Gotham and Seamore Ledge.  Each reef is stunning in its own right. 

Pothole has mesmerizing corals with a good chance of seeing reef sharks, Fusiliers has a plethora of schooling fish, Ribbon named after the ribbon eels that live there has Pipefish, cleaning stations, occasional Weedy Scorpion fish, massive Groupers and Firefish. 

Lettuce is a deeper reef and what is special about this reef is that the coral is one gigantic animal, a huge pachyseris coral literally the size of two tennis courts which on a good vis day is breathtaking to behold.  There are some special fish that only occur around this coral and depth, namely the Guilded Trigger fish, Swallowtail and Tiger Angelfish, you can also spot Marbled Leopard Groupers, Smooth Rockcod, an array of abundance of Chocolate Dips, Elongate Surgeons and Lobster hiding under the coral. 

Gotham and Seamore ledge are uniquely beautiful.  Gotham starts on the northern side with Coral Rubble and Feather Stars. If you are lucky you can be amazed with the appearances of Bulls and Oceanic Blacktips that like to hang here. At the start of Seamore ledge - as you drift south you will cross patches of Pachyseris with layers of Snappers and Fusiliers above the coral in clouds, on the Southern end, there are schools and schools of Slingers, Groupers and occasionally schooling scalloped epic Hammerheads. The offshore and North edge of Gotham is a ledge which is part of the old continental shelf we call Seamore Ledge.