Drift
down to 30 m
False Entrance
Great Barrier Reef (Cairns & Port Douglas), Australia
Osprey Reef wall at around 30 m with gorgonian fans and sea whips, where passing mantas, eagle rays and reef sharks can be seen in the blue.
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707 dive sites
Drift
down to 30 m
Great Barrier Reef (Cairns & Port Douglas), Australia
Osprey Reef wall at around 30 m with gorgonian fans and sea whips, where passing mantas, eagle rays and reef sharks can be seen in the blue.
Pinnacle
down to 27 m
Hurghada, Egypt
Shallow wall over a sandy slope where jackfish and lionfish hunt clouds of glassfish and silversides around two pinnacles.
Reef
down to 26 m
Port Hardy & God's Pocket, Canada
Rock piles at 20-26 m near God's Pocket where one diver counted six wolf eel dens within an 18 m swim.
Drift
down to 30 m
Sharm El Sheikh & Ras Mohammed, Egypt
Beginner-rated reef wall north of Naama Bay where whale sharks, mantas and even the odd hammerhead have been seen.
Reef
down to 20 m
Farne Islands & St Abbs, United Kingdom
A boat dive near Fast Castle, 12-20 m, with more lobsters than one diver could count and squat lobsters in every nook.
Reef
down to 20 m
Istria, Croatia
Small island off Rovinj where rock terraces step down to 18 m, with plenty of lobsters and conger eels under the overhangs.
Wall
down to 50 m
Taveuni & Rainbow Reef, Fiji
A soft-coral wall with schooling bannerfish and batfish, where eagle rays and reef sharks pass the deeper wall sections.
Reef
down to 20 m
Maldives
A gentle sandy slope from 5 m to 20 m in North Malé where stingrays gather in large numbers.
Reef
down to 15 m
Great Barrier Reef (Cairns & Port Douglas), Australia
Shore or boat dives on rocky reefs to 15 m near Cairns, where epaulette sharks hide under ledges.
Wall
down to 18 m
Grenada
A fringing reef in the Grenada Marine Park with dramatically abundant fish life; grouper, jacks and rays lurk at the base of the wall.
Rock formations
down to 22 m
Mallorca, Spain
Swim through an arch and around a cave looking for schools of barracuda and octopus, max 22 m.
Reef
down to 15 m
Cayman Islands
Sunlit coral fingers on flat sand at under 40 ft, with a chance of eagle rays along the nearby channel.
Kelp forest
down to 10 m
Lundy Island, United Kingdom
Lundy's playful, curious seals swim around divers here, playing hide and seek and nibbling fins.
Reef
down to 38 m
Pembrokeshire & Skomer, United Kingdom
A seal-haunted rock off Skomer where octopus cross the reef and puffins fly overhead in June.
Reef
down to 16 m
Puerto Galera, Philippines
A shallow beginner reef with giant clams, coral and octopus, at an average depth of 9-10 m.
Rock formations
down to 18 m
Kona (Big Island), United States
Lava arches and a wide lava swim-through with whitemouth morays, and occasional Commerson's frogfish and leaf scorpionfish.
Rock formations
down to 32 m
Koh Tao, Thailand
Boulder site with small caves and swim-throughs, triggerfish nests and yellowtail barracuda schools.
Macro
down to 30 m
Gulen (Western Norway), Norway
The resort house reef, with the highest documented nudibranch species count in the Atlantic: 73 species so far.
Drift
down to 27 m
Southeast Florida (Palm Beach to Miami), United States
Over two miles of reef from Dania Pier toward Port Everglades, rising up to 24 ft off the sand, drift-dived past turtles and southern stingrays.
Reef
down to 25 m
Côn Đảo, Vietnam
Shallow branching-coral reefs with often the best visibility in Con Dao (frequently over 20 m), plus chances of bamboo sharks and turtles.
Reef
down to 20 m
Côn Đảo, Vietnam
Coral slope from 6 to 20 m with good visibility, listed by the local operator for beginner to intermediate divers.
Reef
down to 26 m
Similan Islands & Khao Lak, Thailand
Sheltered hard-coral bay used for moorings and night dives, when crabs, lobsters, cuttlefish and nurse sharks come out.
Reef
down to 32 m
Andaman Islands (Havelock & Neil), India
A current-swept strip of rock around 32 m where eagle rays, manta rays and the odd whitetip reef shark pass by.
Drift
Taveuni & Rainbow Reef, Fiji
A drift at about 18 m past rising garden eels, Spanish mackerel, dogtooth tuna and whitetip reef sharks.