Angaur Island Wall

Orange Beach / White Beach Wrecks

Peleliu Corner

Peleliu Cut

Peleliu Wall (Peleliu Express)

Southern trips are usually full-day or liveaboard expeditions with packed or cooked meals onboard, and the remote Peleliu and Angaur islands have only basic stores. Liveaboards serve buffet-style meals with fresh fish and fruit, while a couple of small guesthouses on Peleliu offer home-cooked local food for land-based visitors. It is wise to bring extra water and snacks, because services are scarce and the long transits leave little time to shop.

Carp Island Resort

Peleliu Sanrais Hotel

Palau Pacific Resort

Palau Royal Resort

Peleliu and Angaur guard the southern end of Palau's barrier reef and deliver its most extreme pelagic diving. Peleliu Wall, nicknamed the Peleliu Express, is a sheer abyssal drop-off where grey reef and silvertip sharks, dogtooth tuna, and big-eye trevally thunder past in current that can exceed four knots, with whale sharks and tiger sharks reported seasonally. Peleliu Cut and Peleliu Corner add variety with baitballs, hammerheads, and manta rays, while Angaur Island Wall offers pristine, less-dived coral with schooling jacks. On land, Peleliu is sacred ground for its brutal 1944 battle, and the Orange and White Beach areas hold shallow WWII landing craft and amphibious tractors now encrusted in coral. Reaching Peleliu takes about 90 minutes by boat or an overnight liveaboard, which is the preferred way to do the southern sites justice.

Peleliu & Angaur (Southern Outer Reefs)

The Peleliu & Angaur (Southern Outer Reefs) region is reached by boat from Koror, the dive hub of Palau. Day boats and liveaboards depart the Koror and Malakal marinas, with transit times varying by site. Some southern and northern regions are best experienced on multi-day liveaboard trips that time dives to the tidal windows.

Dive Sites in Peleliu & Angaur (Southern Outer Reefs)

Angaur Island Wall

Orange Beach / White Beach Wrecks

Peleliu Corner

Peleliu Cut

Peleliu Wall (Peleliu Express)