Most popular of the passages and very aptly named. The passage bottoms out at about 100 feet and is about 120 feet wide. On the change of tide this passage becomes a seething mass of schooling fish. This is one of the few remaining places divers can experience the sights and sounds of the enormous schools of the "Garanx Sexfasciatus" that once infested the Pacific. These silvery jacks form an immense living wall around divers as they hang suspended in the passage. Known as ocean fish, these jacks have a relatively small territory around Madang and if you can keep still enough, for long enough, you will hear the rhythmic drumming of their tails as they swarm around you.

Clouds of Bannerfish and Rainbowfish intersperse with the jacks to give the passage an aura of pulsating colour. If you happen to catch Magic Passage on one of its better days you will have your breath taken away as you gaze across from one side of the passage, through gin clear water, to the other side - 120 feet distant.

The dominant corals of the reef slopes and reef fronts are the "Acroporids". These hard corals exist in a myriad of colours. Most spectacular, and offering the best photo opportunity, is the brilliant purple of the "Acropora Secale". The range of soft corals on display around the mouth of Magic Passage is extensive. These vary in size and colour from the delicate, pastel shades of the "Sarophytons" whose colonies on the reef stretch to more than a meter in diameter, to vivid blue of the "Heliopora Caerules".

A great garden of "Seas Pens" grows at seaward mouth of the passage. These grow at right angles to the prevailing current as the swaying tentacles sieve the changing tidal waters for food.