Wall
down to 40 m
Napaling
Bohol & Panglao, Philippines
A steep coral wall close to shore with an almost guaranteed, year-round swirling sardine ball; best in the calm morning light.
- Open Water
- Turtles
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Wreck
down to 20 m
Nashua (Navy Tug)
Oahu, United States
Oahu's most requested dive: a 109-foot Navy tug in 20 m outside Pearl Harbor where whitetip reef sharks settle inside.
- Advanced
- Manta rays
Artificial reef
down to 6 m
Nest (Underwater Statues)
Gili Islands, Indonesia
A circle of 48 life-size figures by Jason deCaires Taylor in about 4 m of water at Gili Meno, slowly colonised as a reef.
- Open Water
- Turtles
Wreck
down to 40 m
Hidden gem
Nordhusia Underwater Village
Sundhäuser See, Germany
An artificial underwater village at about 10 m with church, graveyard and gallows, plus a fishing-boat wreck at 21 m in the same lake.
- Open Water
Drift
down to 30 m
Outback
Tofo, Mozambique
A slow drift along a main wall that grows larger and livelier, with three manta cleaning stations and yellow snappers at the first.
- Advanced
- Manta rays
Wall
down to 40 m
Pamilacan Wall
Bohol & Panglao, Philippines
A black-coral and sea-fan wall dropping past 40 m where grey reef sharks, eagle rays and schools of jacks patrol.
- Advanced
- Grey reef sharks
Reef
down to 18 m
Paradise Beach
El Nido, Philippines
Calm, current-free sandy slope off Cadlao Island, 1-18 m, used for Open Water training, with turtles and clownfish.
- Open Water
- Turtles
Wall
down to 40 m
Peleliu Wall & Expressway
Palau
A vertical wall running to Peleliu Corner, where currents converge and grey reef and whitetip sharks are common sightings.
- Experienced
- Whale sharks
Macro
down to 10 m
Penjor Reef
Bali & Nusa Penida, Indonesia
Shallow Sanur reef a few minutes by speedboat, with healthy coral and plentiful macro life even in lower visibility.
- Open Water
Reef
down to 40 m
Playa Chica
Canary Islands (Lanzarote & Fuerteventura), Spain
Shore dive on Puerto del Carmen's house reef with cuttlefish, seahorses, nudibranchs, stingrays, butterfly rays and angel sharks.
- Open Water
- Angel shark
Cave
down to 135 m
Pluragrotta (Plura cave, main route from the Plura entrance)
Plura Cave (Pluragrotta), Norway
Northern Europe's deepest cave: about 3 km of passages and the most-dived cave in Scandinavia, with visibility up to 20 m.
- Technical
Rock formations
down to 35 m
Police Corner
Komodo, Indonesia
Strong-current corner off Siaba Besar with a crack wide enough for one diver at a time and rays and sharks passing in the blue.
- Experienced
- Batfish
Reef
down to 60 m
Port Ghalib House Reef (Fishmarket)
Marsa Alam & the Brothers, Egypt
A house reef where beginners walk in from a sandy beach to a reef at 5–20 m, while the outer reef drops to far over 60 m.
- Advanced
Wreck
down to 18 m
Porteau Cove
Salish Sea (Vancouver, Victoria & Nanaimo), Canada
Shore-dive a buoy-marked area of man-made reefs and two sunken vessels in 6-18 m of water in a BC provincial park.
- Open Water
- Lingcod
Artificial reef
down to 14 m
Portland Underwater Curiosity Park
Dorset (Portland & Swanage), United Kingdom
An artificial dive park in Balaclava Bay at 10-14 m with a mock Roman temple, statues, a 3 m shark sculpture and Admiralty anchors.
- Open Water
- Dolphins
Drift
down to 40 m
Protea Banks
Aliwal Shoal & Protea Banks, South Africa
A marine protected area since 2019 where dives bring close encounters with tiger, bull and hammerhead sharks and giant guitarsharks.
- Advanced
- Bull sharks
Pinnacle
down to 30 m
Punta Maria
Cocos Island, Costa Rica
Deep seamount off Cocos' southwest corner, never shallower than 18 m, whose cleaning stations draw Galapagos sharks over 3 m long.
- Advanced
- Galápagos sharks
Drift
down to 50 m
Punta Vicente Roca
Galápagos, Ecuador
Cold-upwelling wall off Isabela where mola mola are a signature sighting and seahorses and frogfish hide in the crevices.
- Advanced
- Sea lions
Drift
down to 25 m
Purple Rain
Grenada
A drift dive where divers 'fly' in a steady 2-knot current through a constant 'rain' of violet Creole wrasse.
- Advanced
- Turtles
Artificial reef
down to 30 m
Pyramids (Amed)
Bali & Nusa Penida, Indonesia
Artificial pyramid structures just off the beach in Amed, where hawksbill turtles pass and moray eels hide in the crevices.
- Advanced
- Turtles
Pinnacle
down to 30 m
Quiliano
Malapascua, Philippines
Small pinnacle north of Malapascua dived as a slow spiral ascent from its 16-18 m base, with flamboyant cuttlefish.
- Advanced
- Cuttlefish
Cave
down to 18 m
Raggies Cave
Aliwal Shoal & Protea Banks, South Africa
Aliwal's most popular site: kneel at the cave entrance to watch ragged-tooth sharks in season, then hunt for shed shark teeth in the sand.
- Advanced
- Ragged-tooth sharks
Drift
down to 30 m
Ras Um Sid
Sharm El Sheikh & Ras Mohammed, Egypt
Sharm wall dropping to 30 m with a forest of fan corals; eagle rays, and in summer mantas and whale sharks.
- Advanced
- Whale sharks
Kelp forest
down to 40 m
Saltstraumen
Bodø & Saltstraumen, Norway
A guided dive in Saltstraumen's short slack window: kelp forests in the stream, anemone-covered rock walls, large cod, halibut and, with luck, wolffish.
- Experienced
- Saithe