Faille de Noupaa - Isle of Pines
Faille de Noupaa offers a solid dive for those exploring Isle of Pines. You'll navigate a series of small swim-throughs and crevices, home to plenty of reef fish and often a few cruising reef sharks. It's a good spot for divers looking for something a bit more interesting than a straight wall dive, without being overly challenging.
- Location
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia, Australasia
- Coordinates
- -22.509500, 167.388290
Marine Protected Area: Yves Merlet
Nearby Dive Sites in Isle of Pines
- CALEDONIE TOHO III - 0m (wreck)
- Daa Djare
- Grotte de la troisieme (cave)
- Grottes de Gadji (cave)
- Kasmira Reef (reef)
- Le Banc de Sable - 5-15m (reef)
- Passe de Gie (drift)
- Récif Tiaré
Nearest Dive Centres to Faille de Noupaa
Marine Life in Isle of Pines
Home to 161 recorded species including 102 reef fish, 13 hard corals, 10 sea snails & nudibranchs, 9 sea cucumbers, 7 sharks & rays, 6 whales & dolphins.
Notable Species
- Cosmopolitan Spurdog (Squalus megalops) - Sharks & Rays
- Blackfish (Globicephala macrorhynchus) - Whales & Dolphins
- Striated Locust Lobster (Eduarctus martensii) - Crabs & Lobsters
- Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) - Sharks & Rays
- Banded Whip Lobster (Puerulus angulatus) - Crabs & Lobsters
- Spiny Blaasop (Tylerius spinosissimus) - Reef Fish
- Coral Beauty (Centropyge bispinosa) - Reef Fish
- Boarfish (Antigonia capros) - Reef Fish
- Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) - Whales & Dolphins
- Red Squirrelfish (Sargocentron diadema) - Reef Fish
- Dorado (Coryphaena hippurus) - Reef Fish
- Honeycomb Grouper (Epinephelus merra) - Reef Fish
- Maylan (Aetobatus narinari) - Sharks & Rays
- Scarlet Soldierfish (Myripristis pralinia) - Reef Fish
- Rock Cod (Cephalopholis boenak) - Reef Fish
- Hoeven's wrasse (Halichoeres melanurus) - Reef Fish
- Peacock wrasse (Halichoeres argus) - Reef Fish
- Black Angelfish (Centropyge tibicen) - Reef Fish
- Eye-lash Harptail-Blenny (Meiacanthus atrodorsalis) - Reef Fish
- Lemon Peel (Centropyge flavissima) - Reef Fish