Blue Corner
Palau's signature dive: a triangular reef corner with stepped walls on the ocean side, where divers hook in on the plateau edge and watch sharks and big schools in the current. Blue Holes lies on its northern part. Visibility depends strongly on the tide.
Facts
- Region: Palau
- Area: Ngemelis & Blue Corner
- Depth: 8–30 m
- Level: advanced
- Current: strong
- Type: reef, wall, drift
- Coordinates: 7.13361, 134.22028
- Highlights: grey reef sharks, bull sharks, hammerhead sharks, eagle rays, barracuda, jacks, Napoleon wrasse, schooling fish, reef hook
- Permit: A Koror State Rock Island Use Permit is mandatory for the Rock Islands Southern Lagoon (USD 50 per visitor aged 6+, valid 10 days, per the Koror State fact sheet; Jellyfish Lake needs the USD 100 Jellyfish Lake Permit instead). Permits are non-transferable and bought from Koror State (finance offices) or through your tour operator; they are usually not included in dive prices. In addition every visitor pays the USD 100 Pristine Paradise Environmental Fee (PPEF), normally collected in the air ticket. Check current amounts with Koror State or your operator.
- Issuer / contact: Koror State Government – Rangers (Law Enforcement Division)
- Phone: +680 488-2150
- Email: rangers@kororstategov.com
- Website: https://www.kororstategov.com/cle.html
- Koror State Department of Conservation and Law Enforcement; Coastal Management Division +680 488-4001, koror.rangers@gmail.com; administration +680 488-2439 / admin@kororstategov.com. Permits are sold at the Koror State Finance Office (Ngerbeched) and the Malakal Finance Field Office at the Rangers' Station (source: Koror State Visitor User Permit Information fact sheet, https://www.kororstategov.com/pdf/dcle/VUPI2016-Legal%20size.pdf).
- Tips: Bring a reef hook and a surface marker buoy; dive it on the incoming tide for the best visibility.