Salt Pier

About this site

Salt Pier's massive wooden and concrete pilings, used to load salt cargo ships, have been transformed over decades into artificial reef structures draped from surface to 9 m with sponges, corals, and enormous aggregations of glassy sweeper fish. Frog fish, seahorses, and rare scorpion fish hide among the encrustations, and the whole structure glows at night with bio-fluorescent organisms. Diving is restricted when ships are loading, requiring advance co-ordination.

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Marine life