Malabar Pinnacle

Malabar Pinnacle is Lord Howe Island's signature day-trip dive, a volcanic seamount that rises from 40 metres to within 8 metres of the surface and concentrates an astonishing variety of both subtropical and tropical species in a single column of water. Hard coral gardens cap the pinnacle's summit while black coral and sea fans adorn the deeper flanks, and the aggregation of endemic wrasse, massive trevally, and passing pelagics makes every dive unpredictably spectacular. The Tasman Sea's convergence of cooler temperate and warmer tropical water masses creates a species-rich thermocline zone unique to this latitude.