DIVE SITES @ Hon Mun Island
Natural Marine Park
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Hard Rock Depth: 10 - 30m / Visibility: 5 - 20m / Currents: Occasional / Getting there : Boat 45 min / Best months: Feb / Sept
A spectacular vertical wall dive down to 40 meters can be done here.
The wall is covered with hard and soft coral and provides home to all
manner of marine critters.
Soft coral
Small Hill (Speedboat only)
Depth: 45m / Visibility: 5 - 20m / Currents: strong / Getting there : Speedboat only / Best months: Feb / Sept
A vertical wall dive down to 40 meters at the tip of Hon Mun where there is a strong current. This dive is for experienced divers and is accessible only by speadboat.
You will see some batfish and many others reef fishes. Butterfly fish
Big Wall (Speedboat only)
Depth: 45m / Visibility: 5 - 20m / Currents: Occasional / Getting there : Speedboat only / Best months: Feb / Sept
A vertical drop off down to 35 meters teeming with life and exploding
with color from a smorgasbord of soft coral. Many reef fishes are also
in abundance here including butterfly fish, parrot fish and angelfish,
there are also bigger varieties at depth such as groupers and jacks.
Angelfish
Small Wall Depth: 27 - 30m / Visibility: 5 - 20m / Currents: Occasional / Getting there : Boat 1 hour / Best months: Feb / Sept
This wall drops down to 18 meters then slopes at a gentler gradient
down to around 25, often also refered to as Fisherman's Bay.
Some
interesting green and gold coral formations can be seen on a big rock
at around 20 meters.
The wall also houses a variety of black and red
lionfish, batfish and longfin bannerfish. You may encounter fishing
nets at the dive so take a dive knife for precaution.
Batfish
Fisherman Bay Depth: 16 - 18m / Visibility: 5 - 20m / Currents: Occasional / Getting there : 45 minutes / Best months: Feb / Sept
Excellent
dive site in a sheltered bay, hard corals everywhere, Red Tooth and
Titan Triggerfish, Barracuda, Snake Eels, Fusiliers, Snappers,
Emperors, Seahorses.
Titan Triggerfish
South Rock Depth: 20 m
South Reef Depth: 25 - 27m
Probably
the best quality hard coral reef in Nha Trang Bay, Table Corals,
Gorgonians, Nudibranchs, Pufferfish, Moorish Idols and Batfish. Hard
corals from 2 – 14 meters.
Nudibranch
Moray Beach Depth: 16 - 18m / Visibility: 5 - 20m / Currents: Occasional / Getting there : Boat 45 minutes / Best months: Feb / Sept
A shallow dive with a sandy bottom, also some
bizarre rock formations here. The site gets its name from the resident
giant moray eels that are upto two and a half meters long. You may find
the rare black spotted moray (Gymnothorax-favagineus) here too. This
site is also good for spotting pipefish, razorfish and trumpetfish with
a couple of leaf fish hiding in a small cave at 3 meters.
Black spotted moray
Pipe Beach Depth: 13 - 15m
Hard corals, macro
life, Seahorses, Nudibranchs & Flatworms.
Seahorse
Lobster Beach Depth: 14 - 16m
This dive has the same characteristics as Pipe Beach
Flatworm
Mamahanh Beach Depth: 15 - 16m / Visibility: 5 - 20m / Currents: Occasional / Getting there : Boat 45 minutes / Best months: Feb / Sept
Ideal
Open Water training site with large sandy area and sheltered from
surge. Hard and soft corals, Zebra and Leopard Moray Eels, Ghost
Pipefish, Lionfish and many small reef fish. Maximum depth of 15 meters.
Clownfish
Madonna Rock Depth: 25 m / Visibility: 5 - 20m / Currents: Occasional / Getting there : Boat 45 minutes / Best months: Feb / Sept
You will find on this site for small tunnels and caves. There are a couple of good swimthroughs at this dive
site. It is a small rocky outcrop off Hon Mun Island, marine life
includes giant morays, lionfish, scorpion fish and a wide array of
breath taking coral.
Lionfish
Rom Wall Depth: 25 - 28 m
Deepest part of Madonna. It is a vertical wall with big rocks which dive down until 28 meters
It has the same characteristics as Madonna but more windy 
Scorpion fish
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