How and Where to Dive with Mola Molas (Ocean Sunfish)

The ocean sunfish is the strangest big animal you can dive with: a two-tonne, three-metre disc of a fish that spends most of its life in cold water hundreds of metres down and only comes shallow to be cleaned. That single habit is what makes the encounter possible at all. This guide covers the two species, the destinations where mola actually show up on a schedule, the cold and the depth you need to be ready for, and the cleaning-station rules that decide whether the fish stays or leaves.