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Depth: 10-12 m 30-40 ft
Description: The dome was originally built as a prop for the set of a French reality TV show. Although the show is now off the air, the ruins of the dome remain and provide shelter to schooling fi sh and other organisms. If you like tiny creatures then you’re in for a treat, as this dive site is home to countless gobies and tube-dwelling blennies
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Points of special interest (click on map for position):
1- The Dome – The dome is the metal structure at the center of this site. It has become an articificial reef that attracts schooling goatfish, grunts, tiny blennies and gobies
2- Spinyhead and secretary blennies – You can recognize the difference between these two blennies by studying their heads as they poke out of their holes: spinyhead blennies have white snouts and a dark body, while secretary blennies have a white streak behind the eye and brown body bars
3- Yellow tube sponge and shortstripe gobies – Yellow tube sponges filter the water for planktonic food. By peeking inside the tubes you may find the reclusive shortstripe goby, which makes the sponge its home
4- Schooling grunts and goatfish – Notice how both of these schooling fish have horizontal stripes; by watching the orientation of their neighbour’s stripes, these fish can keep themselves perfectly aligned with the rest of the school, allowing it to better move as a unit when avoiding predators
5- Nassau grouper zone – Nassau grouper are one of the largest groupers on Caribbean coral reefs. They are usually found individually, but gather in their thousands when they are ready to spawn
6- Stingray zone – Stingrays commonly feed in the sand here. Look for hungry bar jacks accommpanying the ray as they look to snap up creatures disturbed by their friend
7- Flamingo tongue zone – Flamingo tongues are common in the reef areas that surround the dome. They live on soft corals, which they graze on for food
8- Sandtile fish burrows – The slender, eel-like sandtile fish is common in sandy areas. They rarely stray far from their shelter, a carefully constructed burrow in the sand
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Creatures that live here (ID - Common Name):
A.AC - Blue Tang
B.BV - Queen Triggerfish
C.AM - Secretary Blenny
C.AS - Spinyhead Blenny
D.DAb - Southern Stingray
G.EC - Shortstripe Goby
L.LAb - Schoolmaster Snapper
L.TB - Bluehead Wrasse
M.MMc - Yellow Goatfish
M.MP - Sand Tilefish
O.CG - Flamingo Tongue
P.AF - Yellow Tube Sponge
S.CC - Graysby
S.ESb - Nassau Grouper
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Beautiful Oceans Science Dive & Snorkel Centers visiting this dive site:
  
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