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Apr 12, 2022 · Temple of Doom is a cave that is within the "Blue Holes" site on the outer reef in Palau. You first enter one of the blue holes and then there is an almost hidden entrance into the cave. You would probably never know it was there unless somebody pointed it out to you. The Blue…
Airpano. The mysterious and distant archipelago of Palau is full of mysteries. One of its most enigmatic places is the cave of The Temple of Doom located on the Blue Holes Reef. The entrance is hidden in the wall under water, at a depth of about 25 meters.
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A vertical wall runs from north to south and merges with Ngemelis wall at Blue Corner. Four holes on top the shallow reef 3-6 feet (1-2 m) deep, about 1000 feet (305 m) north of Blue Corner marks the ceiling of a very large cavern. There is a huge opening stretching from 85-140 feet (26-42 m). A window, 15 feet (5 m) in diameter at 55 feet (17 m) i...
Inside of the cavern you will find many soft corals and Tubastraea decorating the walls, along with many species of nudibranchs and shells that can be found on the sandy bottom. Schools of fish patrol the large opening (with dark blue ambient light as a background). On the way out, the wall is vertical and offers just about any type of coral and fi...
Probably the second most popular site in Palau, the dive at the Blue Holes usually starts with swimming over the shallow reef and descending through one of the four holes on top of the reef. Occasionally if the tide is very low or the swell is high, the dive commences down along the wall and into the cavern. Swimming through the hole, you will disc...
Recognizable from the air, early divers in the late 1950’s considered Blue Holes as one of the first dive sites in Palau.
Jan 24, 2022 · What an exciting dive in Palau. Tucked deep inside of Palau's famous Blue Holes, sits the light-swallowing entrance to the Temple of Doom. Inside, skeletons of turtles litter the barren...
The "Temple of Doom" is a cave inside one of the Blue Holes in Palau, not far away from the Blue Corner. There a few turtle skeletons inside the cave, they b...
Dec 9, 2020 · Another remarkable feature of this reef is the Temple of Doom, a minor cave. This solemn name is probably connected to the fact that a lot of marine inhabitants found their resting place here. The bottom is covered with their bones; the most striking remnant is the skeleton of a large turtle.
The Temple of Doom, Palau. by Oleg Gaponyuk, member of the AirPano Team that is a member of the global-geography Consortium. 16 April 2021. with kind permission of AirPano. The mysterious and remote archipelago of Palau is full of stunning scenery, both landscapes and underwater scenes.
