Wall
down to 40 m
Veril Grande
Canary Islands (Lanzarote & Fuerteventura), Spain
From 20 m a wall drops vertically to about 40 m, with stingrays and angel sharks; whale sharks have occasionally been sighted.
- Advanced
- Whale sharks
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Wall
down to 37 m
Victory Reef
Bahamas
A Bimini wall dive from about 18 to 30 m with overhangs, caverns and swim-throughs covered in coral and sponge growth.
- Advanced
Wreck
down to 17 m
Volonta
Finistère (Brest, Crozon & Glénan), France
A 1955 Italian cargo wreck lying on its side at 17 m off Ouessant, torn open by the Iroise currents and home to pouting and pollock.
- Advanced
Wall
down to 40 m
Wakatobi House Reef
Wakatobi, Indonesia
Shore-accessible reef with frogfish, blue ring octopus and ghost pipefish, and a sheer wall of hard and soft corals, sea fans and sponges.
- Advanced
- Stingrays
Drift
down to 35 m
West Entalula Wall
El Nido, Philippines
Wall south of Miniloc dropping from 5 to 30 m, plus a drift along the reef, with green and hawksbill turtles.
- Advanced
- Turtles
Drift
down to 25 m
West Point
Siquijor, Philippines
Current-washed wall with sand ledges at 20-25 m and orange-spotted groupers sheltering in small caves.
- Advanced
- Groupers
Reef
down to 27 m
Wreck Point
Puerto Galera, Philippines
A sloping reef of many hard corals between Dungon Bay and West Escarceo, usually dived to about 18 m.
- Open Water
- Turtles
down to 30 m
Yonara Channel
Okinawa & Yonaguni, Japan
Channel between Kohama and Iriomote with sometimes very strong currents and a manta ray site on a sandy bottom at 26 m.
- Advanced
- Manta rays
Drift
down to 18 m
Yucab Reef
Cozumel, Mexico
A shallower, colorful drift reef of hard corals and huge barrel sponges, a popular second dive on Cozumel charters.
- Advanced
- Nudibranchs
Wall
down to 50 m
Adrian's Cove (Limasawa)
Southern Leyte (Sogod Bay), Philippines
A deep wall on the east side of Limasawa with soft and hard corals, black coral blocks and gorgonian fans.
- Experienced
- Whale sharks
Wreck
down to 30 m
Aeolian Sky
Dorset (Portland & Swanage), United Kingdom
A 1979 cargo-ship wreck lying on its port side in 29 m, with most of the hull intact and the holds still full of cargo.
- Advanced
Jetty / pier
down to 25 m
Alimatha Jetty (night)
Maldives
A night dive off a resort pier in Vaavu where dozens of tawny nurse sharks and Jenkin's whiprays gather.
- Open Water
- Nurse sharks
Wreck
down to 30 m
Alma Jane Wreck
Puerto Galera, Philippines
A cargo ship scuttled in 2003, resting at 25–30 m with batfish, sweetlips and soft coral.
- Advanced
- Batfish
Drift
down to 30 m
Amphoras
Sharm El Sheikh & Ras Mohammed, Egypt
A drift over coral pinnacles to the anchor and amphora remains of a 17th-century Turkish cargo ship.
- Advanced
- Turtles
Drift
down to 30 m
Anemone City
Sharm El Sheikh & Ras Mohammed, Egypt
Plateau of hundreds of sea anemones with clownfish, sloping 5–25 m before a drift into the blue toward Shark Reef.
- Advanced
- Clownfish
Pinnacle
down to 30 m
Anemone Reef
Phuket & Koh Lanta, Thailand
A reef rising from 30 m to 5 m below the surface, with clownfish, snappers and large groupers, plus tuna and barracuda in the blue.
- Experienced
- Leopard (zebra) sharks
Reef
down to 40 m
Anita's Reef
Similan Islands & Khao Lak, Thailand
Gentle sandy slope with coral bommies, garden eels and Kuhl's stingrays, an ideal check-out dive on a Similan liveaboard.
- Open Water
- Turtles
Wall
down to 20 m
Apo Island East
Apo Reef, Philippines
An easy white-sand slope with mild current, good for spotting turtles, with whitetip sharks circling.
- Advanced
- Whitetip reef sharks
Reef
down to 25 m
Apo Island Marine Sanctuary
Dumaguete, Dauin & Apo Island, Philippines
Gentle slope of hard corals and anemones in the protected sanctuary, where a turtle, banded sea krait or school of jacks is rarely far off.
- Advanced
- Turtles
Wreck
down to 28 m
Hidden gem
Aqaba Underwater Military Museum
Aqaba, Jordan
Nineteen decommissioned tanks, helicopters and guns laid out on the seabed a few dozen metres from shore.
- Advanced
Reef
down to 14 m
Aquarium (Havelock)
Andaman Islands (Havelock & Neil), India
A shallow reef off Havelock, 14 m at most, where nudibranchs, humphead parrotfish and Jenkins rays are logged.
- Open Water
- Stingrays
Wreck
down to 37 m
Arabia
Tobermory (Fathom Five), Canada
An 1853 three-masted barque that sank in 1884 and now rests upright at about 32 m.
- Experienced
Drift
down to 25 m
Around the Bend
Great Barrier Reef (Cairns & Port Douglas), Australia
Osprey Reef drift to a manta cleaning station where divers hold a line at 20-25 m as mantas hover in the current.
- Advanced
- Manta rays
Muck
down to 20 m
Bantigi
Malapascua, Philippines
Muck dive where a shallow reef turns to sandy bottom at 12 m; some divers compare it favourably with Lembeh.
- Open Water