Dive sites: pass

A diver just above a coral bottom watches two sharks pass very close to him, above a school of gray fish with yellow tails, in deep blue water

Tiputa Pass (Rangiroa)

14 to 60 mAdvancedJune and from December to March

BoatCurrent: strongVisibility good on an incoming current, poor in the pass on an outgoing current

Tiputa Pass links the Rangiroa lagoon to the ocean over 950 m, in 14 to 60 m of water, less than 10 minutes by boat from the Avatoru dive centers.

Aerial view of a dark blue S-shaped channel winding between the turquoise flats of the barrier reef, with a few small white boats in the pass

FrancePass

S Pass (Mayotte)

French Indian Ocean: Réunion and Mayotte

5 to 60 mOpen WaterFrom May to October

BoatCurrent: variableVisibility no figure available, varies with the tide

The S Pass, an old riverbed, cuts 2 to 4 km through Mayotte's eastern barrier reef, inside the Marine Nature Park.

A large potato grouper, gray marbled with black, seen from above, resting on the pale sand of a gully between two coral-covered rock walls, in a cloud of small silver fish

TanzaniaPass

Kinasi Pass

Mafia Island

6 to 26 mOpen WaterFrom September to February

BoatCurrent: variableVisibility 10 to 30 m

Kinasi Pass opens Chole Bay to the ocean, in Mafia Island Marine Park, and you drift it along two walls where schools of trevallies and barracudas cross paths with potato groupers.

A sea anemone with raised white tentacles and a pink base, with a blurred diver in yellow fins in the background, in the Njao channel

TanzaniaPass

Fundu Gap

Pemba

5 to 40 mAdvancedFrom July to October and from December to February

BoatCurrent: strongVisibility 20 to 40 m

Fundu Gap is a channel between Fundo Island and the reef, on the west coast of Pemba, with coral walls that drop past 40 meters and Napoleon wrasse, eagle rays and trevallies holding in...

FrancePass

Fakarava South Pass (Tumakohua)

French Polynesia

20 to 30 mOpen WaterFrom June to July

BoatCurrent: moderateVisibility no figure available, better on an incoming current

Fakarava South Pass, 200 m wide, is part of a UNESCO biosphere reserve and home to 600 gray reef sharks on average, joined by more than 17,000 camouflage groupers that come to spawn around...

A reef manta ray seen from below, very close, its white belly spotted with black and its cephalic fins unrolled, surrounded by fish in the blue

FrancePass

Boulari Pass (New Caledonia)

New Caledonia

13 to 18 mAdvancedFrom April to November

BoatCurrent: strongVisibility 30 to 40 m in the cool season, from April to September

Boulari Pass cuts through the barrier reef between Grand Récif Aboré and Kué Reef, south of Amédée Lighthouse, about forty minutes from Nouméa.