Hembadu Wreck

About this dive site

This dive site features a fascinating wreck teeming with marine life. The wreck itself is adorned with a diverse array of invertebrates, including small animals and various corals like hard corals, soft corals, sponges, and bushy black corals – particularly abundant at both the bow and stern. A highlight for night dives is the stern, where colonies of Tubastrea coral create a stunning spectacle. The surrounding house reef provides an excellent transition point, comprised of large coral rocks offering a comfortable spot to conclude the dive. Fish populations are exceptionally rich around and on the wreck. During nighttime explorations, the commando bridge becomes a bustling area for sweepers, actively pursued by blue-fin jack, snapper, and grouper. The deck hosts a variety of parrotfish, scorpionfish, angelfish, and wrasse species. A truly remarkable sight during night dives is the potential to observe sleeping Napoleon wrasses beneath or within the wreck, alongside a large moray eel (famously featured in "The Deep") and two substantial leopard groupers. The house reef offers an abundance of reef inhabitants such as shrimps, anemones, stingrays, white-tip reef sharks, and occasionally nurse sharks.