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When diving at Molokini Back Wall, kick off the wall on a fast flow where big pelagics such as giant Pacific mantas and whale sharks do their feeding dance to the tune of whale song.Make It Happen
Divers who splash into the frothing white water will make a fast descent into a jungle gym of house-sized boulders and volcanic fissures packed with whitetip reef sharks. Make It Happen
When you drop onto the reef just upstream of Palau’s Ulong Channel, get ready — when you hit the mouth of the channel, you toss out a reef hook, halting your drift like Batman skidding along a sidewalk. Hooked in, you face the flow, whipping like a kite in the current as a storm of reef sharks and grouper closes in around you. And that’s only the beginning, says Marc Bauman of Sam’s Tours Palau.
Fakarava's moontail bull's-eyes become redder the stronger the current.
Humphead wrasses are one of the many unique diving companions at the Tumakohua Pass in Fakarava.Make It Happen
The Tobago dive sweeps over reef gardens frequented by mantas, nurse sharks and moray eels, but it comes to a head when the current hurtles divers toward the towering boulders called the Kamikaze Cut. “We go single file through the 7-foot wide passage,” Palmer says. “As you leave the cut, the current drops off and we can look for sleeping nurse sharks under the overhangs.”
Long considered one of the best wall dives in U.S. waters, the Back Wall of Molokini is one of those spots in the ocean where anything can happen. Rising vertically from the Auau Channel, the sheer backside of this crescent-shaped cindercone sits at the heart of humpback territory, just minutes from the South Maui town of Kihei.Make It Happen
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