Twin Rocks

Anilao

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Summary

Twin Rocks is a shallow coral-reef site defined by two large rock pinnacles and a sunken cargo barge that serve as an artificial reef. Vibrant hard and soft corals and frequent schools of trevally, batfish and barracuda, together with two resident green sea turtles, make it a popular, sheltered dive suited to open-water divers and freedivers. Typical maximum depth is around 20 m with reef tops in shallow water; visibility under calm conditions is generally 10–30 m and water temperatures are in the upper 20s °C. Currents are usually mild to moderate. Divers enter from the shore at Planet Dive’s house reef or from a boat anchored near the pinnacles and typically tour the coral gardens around and between the rocks and over sand patches. The site includes an intentionally submerged cargo barge hull encrusted with corals, anemones and marine growth that functions as an artificial reef and fish habitat.

Tags

reef
wreck
shore
boat
pinnacle
open-water

Marine Life

green sea turtle
bigeye trevally
giant trevally
great barracuda
batfishes
russells snapper
spanish mackerels
orange basslet
warty frogfish
black ribbon eel
spotfin jawfishes
seahorses

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