Moorea diving course page mentioning Blue Island
French Polynesia · Moorea
Moorea blue-water peak dive with sharks, jacks, and turtles.
Moorea blue-water peak dive with sharks, jacks, and turtles.
L’ile bleue/Blue Island is an isolated Moorea peak near Cook’s Bay where a blue-water swim leads into a coral canyon with anemones, sharks, jacks, and turtles.
Site Conditions
Safety Notes
Only attempt the swim-in on good-visibility days and stay conservative in the coral canyon.
Access Restrictions
Use a guide and plan the dive on good-visibility days; this is not a casual unsupervised shore hop.
Legal Notes
Follow local marine and access rules; no special public restrictions were surfaced.
Community notes to help plan your visit.
Scuba Diving
A classic Moorea blue-water swim-in that leads to a coral canyon, with sharks and jacks in the mix.
Freediving
Not an ideal freedive target; the swim-in and deeper canyon are better handled on scuba.
Snorkeling
A short shallow-edge snorkel may be possible, but the site is really a scuba swim-in to the canyon.
Species commonly reported at this site, with direct links into their wildlife guides.
Conservative baseline from public research. No community dives logged yet.
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Moorea diving course page mentioning Blue Island
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