BEST DIVE SPOT IN THE WORLD?

Tahanea is our first atoll we have been to in the Tuamotus. The scary part is the entry and exit through the pass. If you get the timing wrong, it can be a very bumpy dangerous ride. Thankfully our exit went well though we could see the start of some waves forming on our port side. Next stop Faaite which is about 40 nautical miles away. We needed to exit the Tahanea pass at slack tide and you need to typically time your entry into the next atoll at the next slack tide. In this case, Faaite is one of a couple of atolls with an anchorage outside so we are not constrained by time but in this case by sunlight. We arrive at Faaite atoll with the sun low and we struggle to find sand to drop the anchor in. Eventually the sun gets too low so we need to make a plan. We opt to spend the night drifting between Faaite and Fakarava atolls. The wind is light and we can seek shelter from any swell that may build by using the atoll as a buffer. We lower the sails and settle in for the night for some reason quite excited about doing this as we have never done this before. It is like a normal night at sea even though we are not sailing, we still need to keep watch. There could be other boats out here and we know that there are plenty of whales. The night passes and in the morning we make another attempt to find sand to anchor in. No luck despite this being shown as an anchorage in a few guides, I am not convinced so we head off to Fakarava to make the next slack tide. We arrive there and it is a lockdown weekend so we don't see any activity. The entrance is amazingly beautiful and we can see the bottom as we motor in. There is coral everywhere. We have heard so much about the south pass and it is already living up to it's name. It has a famous shark dive called the wall of sharks and it also has the most incredible grouper spawning that you may ever see. As for the small village, if they would have me, I would move there in a heartbeat. We drop anchor and as the lockdown is lifted after the weekend, friends arrive and we celebrate Nathan's birthday on a small motu which has crystal clear water around it with lots of different coral. We snorkel up and down the south pass along the shore line on the incoming current. There is so much to see and knowing that there is apparently a wall of sharks below us, we keep a close watch into the depths but see nothing. I am not sure they exist. We do see a few of the large wrasse which is a treat. Finally we do the dive. Bright Star and Yknot manage to provide me with some dive gear so that I can join them. We descend to 29 meters and we see the wall of sharks. At one point we enter a small cave to watch the sharks pass by. This is a dive that you should not miss. We all want to go back to Fakarava asap. Thanks so much Yknot and Bright Star for making the dive possible and for sharing the Fakarava experience with us. Lets meet back there again one day...! To support us on Patreon please click here: https://www.patreon.com/sailingmokara Instagram @sailingmokara Thank you to the following artists for providing the amazing music. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Fuengirola by Scandinavianz https://soundcloud.com/scandinavianz Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/3B9bx9B Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/0VzE-5JInHo ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Music by Hotham Stream: linktr.ee/hothammusic Free Download: hypeddit.com/hotham/doitdownload ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Song: 99Instrumentals - Tropical Summer Music provided by Tunetank. Free Download: https://tunetank.com/track/5062-tropical-summer/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dawn by Wanheda https://soundcloud.com/user-724527508 Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/3Y8QJXV Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/ckwB2QLXsDg ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Farewell by Nomyn https://soundcloud.com/nomyn Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/41DwUdE Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/ogz_wJQspfA -----------------------------------------------------------------------