Makena Landing

Makena Landing offers divers access to one of the best and most unique dive sites on the island of Maui. This area is home to numerous ledges and grottos, and actually encompasses a few different individual dive sites known as 5 caves/5 graves, turtle town, and turtle arch.

Critters at this site

Wildlife encounters here are spectacular and include the smallest of creatures like nudibranchs and crabs to large manta rays, eagle rays, white tip reef sharks, and turtles.

Based on open observations nearbywithin ~5 km — likely to see, not necessarily confirmed at the site itself.

Humpback Whale

Megaptera novaeangliae22 obs.

Green Sea Turtle

Chelonia mydas11 obs.

Australian Blue Dragon

Pteraeolidia ianthina3 obs.

Thin-shelled Rock Crab

Grapsus tenuicrustatus2 obs.

Indo-Pacific Rock-boring Urchin

Echinometra mathaei2 obs.

Pacific White-spotted Sea Cucumber

Actinopyga varians2 obs.

Red Pencil Urchin

Heterocentrotus mamillatus1 obs.

Common Bottlenose Dolphin

Tursiops truncatus1 obs.

Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Marginellidae1 obs.

Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Cuthona1 obs.

Slangestjerne

Ophiocoma1 obs.

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Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Mauritia maculifera1 obs.

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Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Coriophora granosa1 obs.

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Musling

Fragum mundum1 obs.

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Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Carinapex minutissima1 obs.

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Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Pyramidelloides gracilis1 obs.

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Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Nanaphora triticea1 obs.

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Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Cerithium boeticum1 obs.

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Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Cribrarula gaskoini1 obs.

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Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Hypselodoris violabranchia1 obs.

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Musling

Brachidontes crebristriatus1 obs.

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Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Kermidaphnella pumila1 obs.

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Krebsdyr

Calcinus pictus1 obs.