Yap Caverns

The Yap Caverns consist of a series of swim-troughs, tunnels, caverns and canyons, notched out of the coral wall, in the shallower depths of an amphitheater-shaped dive site. This location is home to a large number of White Tip Reef Sharks who use it as a resting spot. Grey Reef Sharks, which are far more active than White Tips, can also be found at this dive site, near the caverns' entrance.

If you are a diver who enjoys photographing nudibranchs, this is the place for you. You can spend hours photographing nudibranchs in Yap's shallow waters. Yap Caverns is also home to the richest reef and wall diving offering the strongest diversity at any single dive site. The dominant animals are whitetip and grey reef sharks, abundant coral, pelagic fish, schools of bumphead parrotfish, eagle rays, turtles, scorpion leaf fish, dragonettes, blennies with shark, eel, and big fish cleaning stations, and dragonettes, blennies with cleaning stations for sharks, eels, and big fish.

Location: Yap, Federated States of Micronesia