German Channel

About this site

The German Channel is an artificial passage dredged by German phosphate miners in the early 1900s, now famous as one of Palau's most reliable manta ray cleaning stations. Reef mantas glide to the cleaning bommie at 20–24 m while divers rest on the sand and observe from below, and the channel walls on either side host dense gorgonian gardens and resident bumphead parrotfish schools. The site also has excellent macro life including various nudibranch species.

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