Barra Dive - Chamber of Secrets

 

Chamber of Secrets

Distance: 17 km

Min Qualification: Deep Adventure (which you can do on this dive, experience and conditions permitting)

Max Depth: 21 m

Average Depth: 16 m

Dive Time: 50 min (as long as you don’t spend more than 20 minutes with your face in the sand!)

 

This is a serious quality dive for those of you that love testing your buoyancy skills and getting in to tight spots. The reef is shaped like a massive double-walled horseshoe and on either side the walls reach a height of about 7 m high. On the sand it is 21 m deep and on the top it varies between 14 m and 16 m. We drop onto the left side of this reef and you have two choices: you can circle the two huge boulders that spring up from the floor, all the while checking the sand for blue spotted and whip-tail stingrays and looking at the vast array of colour that covers these boulders. Or you can head into the chamber, a huge gully that encircles the entire horseshoe, and has, in all, six wicked swim throughs. Make sure you look around you and under all the ledges and overhangs for morays, scorpion fish, lion fish and brightly coloured nudibranchs. Head off down the tunnels single file never knowing what is around the next corner. This dive site is so much fun and a brilliant test of your diving skill! Then at the southern end to finish off the dive there is a big, big archway, with trumpet and surgeon fish all swimming in, out and around with all the other usual reef fish.

General info:

This is a fantastic dive and lots of fun too. However if there is surge we may suggest another site  


 
   
     

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