The mooring is planted in a coral head that is in 50 feet of water, but the surrounding sand basin drops to 80 feet. Stay inside this basin and dive the interior lip of the wall for a mid-depth dive. It pulls you into a dark tunnel that elbows out and you into the deep blue of the trench at 110 feet. The mooring is in a shallow coral mount dominated by juvenile reef fish like blue- and yellowhead wrasse. The deep portions of the wall are dominated by large barrel sponges, wire corals and tube sponges.
Jacks cruise with divers while they explore the deep fissures in the wall.
Like an earthquake fault line, it deepens and twists into a wide crack in the table-top edge of the wall and bottoms out on a sand ledge at 75 feet. Swim inside and follow the cave to the left to find Ben, the legendary grouper who enjoys a friendly chin scratch from divers. Big barrel sponges grow out from the sheer drop-off and you'll find lots of grouper cleaning stations manned by neon gobies. The wall bristles with tube sponges and is a good place to catch turtles, stingrays, jacks and lots of grouper. Look for crab and lobster wedged tightly in protective coral holes.