Wall Street

8.8583°N 119.8750°E · wall

Depth
40 m
Level
Advanced
Entry
liveaboard
Type
wall

Wall Street is a wall dive site in Philippines Tubbataha Reefs, Asia.

Overview

Wall Street lives up to its name with a steep wall that plunges 50-60 meters off the North Atoll, its face blanketed in gorgonian fans, hard corals, and a colorful garden reef top beginning at just 3-5 meters where bumphead parrotfish congregate on almost every dive. Strong currents here attract dogtooth tuna, schools of barracuda, giant trevally, and regular passes by hammerhead sharks and whitetip reef sharks patrolling the wall face. Alongside the nearby Malayan Wreck and Amos Rock, this is one of the North Atoll’s three standout dive sites that divers consistently rate as highlights of any Tubbataha liveaboard.

Site Information

  • Location: Philippines Tubbataha Reefs, Asia
  • Entry Type: liveaboard
  • Site Type: Wall dive
  • Difficulty Level: Advanced
  • Maximum Depth: 40 meters

Marine Life

Wall Street delivers consistently spectacular big-animal diving, with bumphead parrotfish congregating on the reef top almost every dive and strong currents attracting dogtooth tuna, giant trevally, and large schools of chevron barracuda along the wall face. Hammerhead sharks and whitetip reef sharks patrol mid-water, and manta rays are regularly encountered cruising past the wall. The shallower reef garden hosts healthy hard coral and a rich community of reef fish including napoleon wrasse, emperors, and sweetlips.


Sources: Bluewater Dive Travel Tubbataha Reef, Divehappy Tubbataha Reef Guide, Dive The World Tubbataha Philippines, WWF Tubbataha Reef Diving, Guide to the Philippines Tubbataha Diving. Last updated 2026-04-04.

Depth profile
0m · surface−40m max
Ocean conditions
27.8–31.5°CWater temp (yearly range)
0.4–1.4 mWave height
MayWarmest
MayCalmest seas
32°27° JFMAMJJASOND

Sea-surface temperature and wave height from Open-Meteo Marine (ERA5 reanalysis, monthly averages).

Recorded marine life nearby

108696 verified species observations (66 species) logged within ~11 km of this site between 2023 and 2023, from the Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Chordata · 39Cnidaria · 3Echinodermata · 1Arthropoda · 3Heterokontophyta · 4
  • Chordata
  • Actinopteri
  • Mammalia
  • Chrysiptera
  • Chlorurus
  • Caesio lunaris
  • Lutjanus
  • Lutjanus bohar
  • Parupeneus indicus
  • Oxycheilinus bimaculatus
  • Chrysiptera brownriggii
  • Cephalopholis

Scientific survey records skew toward sampled taxa (molluscs, corals) and do not reflect what you are guaranteed to see on a dive.

Source: OBIS (obis.org), aggregated Darwin Core occurrence records.

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