- A vertical slot 37 meters deep at its shallowest point, this is perfect for the advanced diver.
- Schools of blue maomao and trevally can be seen schooling on the surface and this is a great place for sighting majestic kingfish.
- The archway is generally teeming with fish like pink maomao, trevally, demoiselles around 12-25 meter range.
- Mado and porae can often be seen deeper and sightings of some of the less common species like long finned boar fish and splendid perch are not uncommon.
- Squadrons of stingrays will sometimes patrol the arch from 10m down.
- The wall to the North of the arch is a great place to do your safety stop, sporting colourful sponges and anemones, some moray eels and (if you know where to look) there's a crevice of cunning crayfish.
- Outside the arch the bottom drops rapidly away past 60m.
Pink maomao and mado in Northern Arch - Credit: Dive! Tutukaka
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