Sherwood

Sherwood Forest’s main attraction is the remarkable cleaning station located on the main rock dome. The top of the reef is located at depths ranging from around 22 to 31 meters, and it can be reached by boat in about 3.5km or a 5min ride. Bottom time on air will be 20 minutes, while with nitrox 30min.

Marine life at this site

To enhance your diving experience, you may encounter giant or reef mantas, smalleye stingrays, blotched fantail rays, eagle rays, and large groups of mobula rays.

Based on open species observationswithin ~25 km — likely to see, not necessarily confirmed at the site itself.

yellow-blocked nudibranch

Halgerda wasinensis7 obs.

Ornate Spiny Lobster

Panulirus ornatus5 obs.

Blue Button

Porpita porpita3 obs.

Painted Spiny Lobster

Panulirus versicolor2 obs.

Pink Ghost Crab

Ocypode ryderi2 obs.

Peacock Mantis Shrimp

Odontodactylus scyllarus2 obs.

Spiny Cushion Star

Culcita schmideliana2 obs.

Blotched Fantail Ray

Taeniurops meyeni2 obs.

Red-knobbed Sea Star

Protoreaster lincki2 obs.

Gulfweed Crab

Planes minutus1 obs.

Whale Shark

Rhincodon typus1 obs.

Banded Coral Shrimp

Stenopus hispidus1 obs.

Tiger Cowrie

Cypraea tigris1 obs.

Ram's Horn Squid

Spirula spirula1 obs.

Indo-Pacific Rock-boring Urchin

Echinometra mathaei1 obs.

Humpback Whale

Megaptera novaeangliae1 obs.

Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Glaucus atlanticus1 obs.

Black Longspine Urchin

Diadema setosum1 obs.

Haj & rokke

Stegostoma fasciatum1 obs.

Honey Cowry

Naria helvola1 obs.

Black Sun Coral

Tubastraea micranthus1 obs.

Portuguese Man of War

Physalia physalis1 obs.

Pineapple Sea Cucumber

Thelenota ananas1 obs.

Pantropical Spotted Dolphin

Stenella attenuata1 obs.