Pulau Kapas has pristine white sandy beaches and some shallow sloping reefs that are more popular with snorkellers than divers. Visibility is not that good and most of the fish life on the reef is pretty small. However whale sharks do visit this area in season. There is also a small wreck of a Japanese landing craft here. It sits upright on the seabed and still has her anti aircraft guns on the fore deck. Soft coral and encrusting sponge covers the wreck.
The Kuantan Wreck is located about 12 nautical miles from Kuantan and is laying in 23m of water on her port side. It's an easy dive with the shallowest part of the wreck at 14m. The wreck is 80m long and 10m wide and is covered in coral and encrusting sponge. Moray eels, scorpionfish and lionfish can be found on the wreck as can schools of snapper and batfish.
Leopard sharks are often seen here plus large stingrays and turtles. Barracuda can be spotted in the blue. There are also two very large groupers resident here. The large propeller is still intact at the stern.
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