Verde Island Wall

A sheer 70 m+ wall on the SW side of Verde Island in the heart of the Verde Island Passage — the global "center of the center" of marine shorefish biodiversity (Carpenter & Springer 2005). The wall is plastered with metre-wide gorgonian fans and giant barrel sponges; in current, walls of bigeye trevally and barracuda swirl off the reef. Often dived together with The Pinnacles and The Drop-Off as a three-site Verde Island day-trip from Anilao or Puerto Galera.