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Chandelier Cave

DivingNo permitNo mooring buoys

Caves & blue holes · Also good for anchoring

Micronesia, PWChandelier Cave
Best time
Year–round
Water temp.
28–30 °C
Dive depth
0–12 m
Coordinates7°19′48″ N, 134°28′12″ E

You swim into a cliff at 10m and surface inside a series of five connected air chambers hung with white stalactites, where you can take your regulator out and talk to your buddy in a cave nobody on the surface can see. Mandarinfish live in the shallow rubble at the entrance. A limestone cave formed above sea level during the ice ages and flooded when the water rose; the stalactites are the proof it was once dry. Its position in the middle of Koror's harbour makes it the most reliable bad-weather dive in Palau. Anchorage: Malakal Harbour anchorage, minutes away, sheltered. Hazards: No site-specific hazards noted, brief normally.

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