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Te Ava Tepuka

Te Ava Tepuka is, hands down, our favourite dive in Funafuti. We love a good wall dive, and this one delivers. It’s an outer reef site, so you’re looking at serious pelagic action. Drop in, and you’re immediately enveloped by visibility that often stretches beyond 30 metres – it feels like diving in air. The wall itself is a tapestry of corals, particularly the delicate Devonshire cup corals and robust corrugated corals, providing shelter for the smaller stuff. But the real show is out in the blue. We’ve seen schools of big-eye trevally so thick they momentarily block the sun. Whitetip reef sharks are common here, just cruising the current line, and if you keep an eye out into the deeper blue, we’ve even spotted the distinctive shape of a humphead wrasse. Keep an eye on your depth here, it’s easy to get distracted by the action and drift a bit deeper than planned. It’s an intermediate dive for a reason, strong currents can pick up, but that’s often when the big fish come out to play. It’s best suited for divers comfortable with a bit of drift and who really want to experience the raw power of an ocean reef.