Wall Street

Wall Street in Tubbataha: partial guide

Master Liveaboards includes Wall Street in the North Atoll section of its Tubbataha and More itinerary. The named account describes a wall commonly visited as a drift, with ledges and overhangs. This is the Tubbataha record; similarly named sites elsewhere are not evidence for it.

What is supported

The operator describes reef life around the wall and possible passing pelagic animals. These are operator reports, not independently measured encounter rates. Its named section does not provide a surveyed whole-site depth range, and this guide does not infer one from the drop-off.

Planning and uncertainty

Use this partial guide to discuss the intended Wall Street route with your liveaboard. Confirm the planned depth, conditions and whether the stop is included in your itinerary. The reviewed named-site description comes from one operator source; an exact entry position, a generally applicable certification minimum and present conditions remain unverified here. More detailed locally sourced information can refine this account without treating an itinerary description as a complete dive briefing.

Where the park places it

The Tubbataha Management Office's 2025 fish inventory lists a station named "Wall Street (southeastern part of North Atoll)" surveyed on 24 June 2025, and its 2025 shark survey ran two transects here of about 808 and 965 metres (Ecosystem Research and Monitoring Report 2025). Atlantis Azores' trip page groups Wall Street with Malayan Wreck and Amos Rock at the southern end of North Atoll and mentions Denise pygmy seahorses on the fans, scorpionfish, moray eels and ghost pipefish, with dogtooth tuna and sharks in the blue.

A second independent source on the wall

Dive The World describes a sheer wall where large groupers and Napoleon wrasse are common and whale sharks may appear; Fly and Sea repeats the groupers, Napoleon wrasse and occasional whale shark wording. Master Liveaboards' itinerary adds ledges and overhangs sheltering moray eels, lionfish and crustaceans. These are operator and travel-site descriptions; none gives a surveyed depth.

Dated visits, including a poor one

The WWF Coral Triangle blog's dive of 11 April 2009 found poor visibility, a current that kept reversing and a large ghost net wrapped around the reef beside a barrel sponge, with two tunas and a school of emperor snappers passing below. cbartazo.com's log of May 2011 records a wall dive to 23.0 metres with whitetip and grey reef sharks; that is one dive's depth. The Philippine Aggressor II log of 21 March 2026 dived Wall Street twice in a week, recording a big school of jacks, a Napoleon wrasse, whitetip and grey reef sharks, green turtles and nudibranchs each time. In TMO's 2025 shark survey Wall Street had the fewest sightings of the nine sites, nine sharks over its two transects, which is one survey's count rather than a judgement of the site.