Welcome to the Waitabu Marine Park (WMP) Home Page.  Come join us for a guided snorkeling tour of our marine protected area.  Established in 1998, the Waitabu marine protected area (MPA) has gone un-fished, un-anchored, and un-tread upon ever since.  Yearly, the community of Waitabu conducts marine surveys according to the Reef Check survey guidelines with the assistance of a local tropical marine biologist in order to track the recovery of their reef health.  To day snorkelers are sure to see the dramatic effect of marine protection as portrayed by the difference between the Waitabu MPA and their regular fishing grounds. i.e. healthy hard and soft corals, large healthy fish stocks including the larger more readily fished species, giant clams of excess of 30cm, a wide variety of crustaceans and mollusks, and even the occasional sea turtle, shark, and ray.