Drop Zone
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About this site
Drop Zone is a boat dive reached by launching from Gordon's Bay and heading out past Strand, in South Africa. Average depth is 16 m and maximum depth is 25 m. It is a huge oval shaped reef that starts at 15 m and slopes gently outwards to about 26 m.
Rather than huge pinnacles, the reef has ridges, gullies and round craters that look almost as if bombs have been dropped there.
Nudibranchs and dorids are plentiful, including scribbled, variable, purple ladies, gasflame, chocolate chip, spiky, blue dorids and inkspot. There are forests of sea fans, schools of hottentot, zebra and kolstert, and also puffadder shyshark, leopard catshark, pleated toadfish, bull rays, Chinese and bull klipfish, octopus, cuttlefish and hotlips spider crabs.
Marine life here
Confirmed by our research team, reported by independent divers, or observed nearby via iNaturalist — each entry is labelled with its source.
NudibranchNudibranchReported here · unconfirmed
OctopusOctopusReported here · unconfirmed
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