Mwand Pass - Pohnpei
Mwand Pass offers a drift dive through a wide channel on Pohnpei’s outer reef. We often find schooling barracuda and grey reef sharks here, cruising against the current. It's a relaxed drift, making it suitable for divers comfortable with moderate currents, though conditions can pick up. Keep an eye out for eagle rays gliding past.
- Location
- Pohnpei, Micronesia, Central & South Pacific
- Coordinates
- 7.016735, 158.292390
- Type
- drift
Marine Protected Area: And Atoll
Nearby Dive Sites in Pohnpei
- Ant Atoll (reef)
- Ant Atoll - Northwest Wall (wall)
- Ant Atoll - Tauenai Pass (reef)
- Areu Wall (wall)
- Dahwlak Pokie
- Kehpara
- Manta Road
- METOMKIN - 0m (wreck)
- Mwand Wall (wall)
- Pahleng Corner
- Pahn Nin Seitamw
- Phelong Pass Inside (wreck)
- Phelong Pass Outside (wreck)
Marine Life in Pohnpei
Home to 332 recorded species including 231 reef fish, 65 hard corals, 13 sea cucumbers, 8 sea snails & nudibranchs, 6 seagrass & algae, 4 clams & mussels.
Notable Species
- Bristle-toothed Surgeonfish (Ctenochaetus striatus) - Reef Fish
- Bullethead Parrotfish (Chlorurus sordidus) - Reef Fish
- Black Surgeonfish (Acanthurus nigricans) - Reef Fish
- Clown Tang (Naso lituratus) - Reef Fish
- Blue-lined Surgeonfish (Acanthurus lineatus) - Reef Fish
- Saddled Parrotfish (Scarus dimidiatus) - Reef Fish
- Long-nosed Parrotfish (Hipposcarus longiceps) - Reef Fish
- Blunt-head Parrotfish (Chlorurus microrhinos) - Reef Fish
- Humphead Unicornfish (Naso unicornis) - Reef Fish
- Sea chub (Kyphosus cinerascens) - Reef Fish
- Bleeker's Parrotfish (Chlorurus bleekeri) - Reef Fish
- Banded maori wrasse (Cheilinus fasciatus) - Reef Fish
- Foxface (Siganus vulpinus) - Reef Fish
- Black-barred Surgeonfish (Acanthurus nigricauda) - Reef Fish
- Dusky Parrotfish (Scarus niger) - Reef Fish
- Rivulated Parrotfish (Scarus rivulatus) - Reef Fish
- Bicolor Parrotfish (Scarus rubroviolaceus) - Reef Fish
- Stony coral (Porites cylindrica) - Hard Corals
- Ring-tailed Surgeonfish (Acanthurus xanthopterus) - Reef Fish
- Pinkfish (Holothuria edulis) - Sea Cucumbers