Originally Posted by MaldivesFreak

Basically you could comfortably walk down the steps into the water of most of the villas on the RHS, villas both on the outside and inside of the curve, and starting from mid-point going right and up towards the island without encountering much coral (with the exception being the bunch in the middle of the outer curve on the RHS). Impossible to do at the other OWVs though. Which is interesting. You can see they have cleared the coral on one side but not the other. Anyway, there's bound to be lots of dead and broken coral there so best to take reef shoes if you want to explore those areas.

The water depth outside the favourable villas there would possibly be low enough at low tide for an adult to walk on the bottom. And, as someone has said previously, you could easily swim over the coral at high tide. The question is, is the coral there dead? Probably mostly destroyed during the construction process but you never know. They might have used some new technique to preserve the outlying coral while drilling into the sand and whatnot.

I wonder what the dropoff is like there. There is a little path through the coral just above and to the right of the (presumably) presidential suite that would be good for navigating out to the edge.