The Fish Bowl

The Fish Bowl is a wall dive off Alor Island in Indonesia, to the north of the channel separating Kepa and Alor. Depending on the day it can be gentle or an exhilarating drift.

The reef slopes down from 8 metres and gives way to a vertical wall split into two depth segments. The deeper wall is a vertical drop covered in short hard corals, small barrel sponges and other sponges, and neon fusiliers stream past in ribbon-like formations along with lone titan triggerfish and midnight snappers.

On the shallow wall, look for scorpionfish nestled in soft corals and oversized ribbon sweetlips sheltering. The slope has dense soft and hard coral, and schooling fairy basslets, blue-yellow damselfish, red-toothed triggerfish, Moorish idols, angelfish and butterflyfish are abundant.