GUIDED DIVES
Novice divers, experts, photo lovers... the depths of Tsarabanjina offer spectacular diving for any level of experience: the depths vary from the few meters that we find by diving from the beaches of the island and on some shoals, up to 30 meters around the "Four Brothers". The biodiversity and the integrity of the reef in this area, little frequented by tourists, are our flagship: hard, soft corals, gorgonians and sponges are the setting for a bustling life composed of tropical fish (butterfly, surgeon, crossbow, clown, etc...)turtles, stingrays and moray eels.
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We offer up to four dives a day: two in the morning, one in the afternoon and one after sunset.
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The majority of dive points are at a maximum of 15 minutes of navigation; this short distance allows us to go out with a single diver and return after each dive.
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Being constantly influenced by tides and currents our guided dives do not have a predetermined program. We allow ourselves to choose the sites the same morning to find the most favorable conditions to us.
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For each dive is included the service of assembly/ disassembly equipment, rinsing and storage, as well as obviously guide, leads and aluminum cylinder 12 lt.
DIVE SITES
FIRST BROTHER - BEANGOVO:
-5m a -22m
The closest of the four stacks that shelter different species of birds such as blue-footed boobs, frigates and terns. Underwater is a site that can be explored far and wide with all the current coefficients. Not particularly deep, maximum on the 20 meters, certainly does not miss encounters with whitetip sharks hidden among the corals, anemones of all colors, turtles and some more peculiarities such as leaf fish and ribbon moray eels.
SECOND BROTHER - BETALINJONA
-14m a -28m
Also called "casquette" for the typical protruding conformation, the second brother has one of the most characteristic angles among all. Just below the ledge, on a sandy bottom, there is a vast carpet full of soft powdery corals, taking the form of a cotton field underwater. Among these corals you can find many small creatures such as nudibranchs, needle fish, canned fish. Sometimes one or more turtles intent on tasting the corals themselves. The dive continues going up to lower depths following the walls of the brother depending on the direction of the current.
THIRD BROTHER - BETANIAZO
-5m a -30m
It takes at least three different dives to appreciate this site in its entirety. The settings vary incredibly, from the deepest part with impressive and dense gorgonians, climbing on a colorful vertical wall, to calm pools of shallow water.
FOURTH BROTHER - ANTSOHA
-8m a -23m
The fourth brother is the smallest among all, but no less interesting, indeed... As soon as you arrive you can see on the external rock the principle of a geological phenomenon called "organ pipes", which we will find in some rocks even underwater. An easy dive that makes everyone happy, from beginners to experts. It descends gradually from 8 meters to a bottom of about 20, where we can find octopus, whitetip sharks and giant lobsters. Going up following the seabed, the reef is colored and filled with schools of yellow and unicorn biters, with some passages of batfish and carangidae. At all depths there are encounters with some critters such as leaf fish, phantom needle fish and porcelain crabs. It gives its best in phase of decreasing tide with any current coefficient.
BROTHERS' BANK
-16m a -21m
A huge drop-shaped bank, purely sandy, with a multitude of large rock "potatoes", all covered with gorgonians at least 1.5m high. At an environmental level, definitely one of our best diving.Probable encounters with large turtles, leopard sharks, sea eagles, stingrays and passages of trevally and tuna. Feasible with any type of current.
NOSY TOLOHO
-5m a -22m
Nosy Toloho is the first island north of Tsarabanjina, but first of all the point where the seahorses of the species Hippocampus hystrix live. Starting from a small coral wall we go down to 18-20m, where the bottom is thinning more and more to leave space only to sand and a few sponges. Starting to search among these, in addition to several seahorses, we can really find the best critters for lovers of the genre: nudibranchs and flat worms of all kinds, ghost pipefish and frogfish. Perfect with low coefficient.
LES TETONS
-8m a -28m
The most known site of the archipelago, two small rocks that emerge from the surface but underwater create a single rocky block that starts from a depth of 8 meters to almost 30 as you move away from the main structure. Close to the latter, a fall of large boulders allows some nice passage in confined spaces, as well as encounters with some animals that prefer shelter in the shadows like lobsters, moray eel and sweetlips. Coral gardens, gorgonians and giant sponges create the ideal habitat for all species of reef fish, along with schools of black surgeons, riflemen and snappers. The most spectacular point of the dive is definitely the passage in a fissure of rock on 18 meters, created by two stacks that rise up to a few meters from the surface. we report make this site with a coefficient of current medium/ low to be able to explore it in full.
ANKAREA BE
-15m a -30m
A large bench with an elongated shape, 45 minutes of navigation from Tsarabanjina, on the homonymous island of Ankarea.
After descending through the top to the 15 meters, continue to the bottom on 30 meters where we go in search of some gray reef sharks, sea eagles, whitetip sharks and other shoals of pelagic fish. The bench is entirely covered with coral formations, from fans of gorgonians to large boards of acropore.
Feasible with any coefficient.
and others...
- SUGARMAN
- TSARA REEF
- TWO SISTERS
- PETIT CASTOR
- NORTH BEACH
- SOUTH BEACH
- VATO BE
- KASSIMO