Pinnacle
down to 30 m
Nursery Bommie
Great Barrier Reef (Cairns & Port Douglas), Australia
Agincourt Reef pinnacle off Port Douglas with a resident school of blue-striped snapper at its base and fairy basslets on top.
- Advanced
- Barracuda
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707 dive sites
Pinnacle
down to 25 m
Okobe Thila
Maldives
Three North Malé coral mounts from 10 to 25 m with soft corals, sponges and a resident family of Napoleon fish.
- Advanced
- Napoleon wrasse
Reef
down to 18 m
Omega Reef
Cayman Islands
A sheltered mini-wall glowing with coral and sponge colour at just 25 ft, with the main wall a short swim north.
- Open Water
Macro
down to 14 m
Palagala
Sri Lanka West & South (Colombo to Unawatuna), Sri Lanka
A shallow rocky ridge 800 m off the beach with nudibranchs, scorpionfish, pipefish and octopus, and stingrays under its ledges.
- Open Water
- Stingrays
Wreck
down to 14 m
Panadura Wrecks
Sri Lanka West & South (Colombo to Unawatuna), Sri Lanka
Three old broken-up wrecks at 5-14 m off the Panadura estuary, with steam boilers, anchors and a propeller among reef and boulders.
- Open Water
Macro
down to 18 m
Paradise I & II (Mabul)
Sipadan & Semporna, Malaysia
Mabul house reefs at 5–18 m with ghost pipefish, frogfish, sea moths and juvenile cuttlefish.
- Open Water
- Cuttlefish
Reef
down to 12 m
Pigeon Island West
Trincomalee & East Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
Shallow 1-12 m reef at Pigeon Island West with table, staghorn, leaf, brain and mushroom soft corals.
- Open Water
- Blacktip reef sharks
Pinnacle
down to 12 m
Pinnacles
Sodwana Bay, South Africa
A shallow Two Mile Reef site of underwater pillars, highlighted by the 5 m Old Woman Pinnacle and busy with zebra sea bream.
- Open Water
Pinnacle
down to 30 m
Pixie Pinnacle
Great Barrier Reef (Cairns & Port Douglas), Australia
A 15 m-wide pinnacle between Ribbon Reefs 9 and 10, wrapped in fairy basslets, with schooling trevally, barracuda and batfish.
- Advanced
- Whitetip reef sharks
Wall
down to 18 m
Playa Piskado (Playa Grandi)
Curaçao
Turtles gather at the end of the fishermen's pier to feed on discarded fish, and a King Neptune statue sits at 30 ft.
- Open Water
- Turtles
Reef
down to 18 m
Playing Fields
Cayman Islands
Figure-eight around three star-coral heads, then a safety stop amid schools of jacks and chubs.
- Open Water
- Stingrays
Macro
down to 20 m
Pyramids
Dumaguete, Dauin & Apo Island, Philippines
Black sand, reef patches and artificial structures where frogfish of several colours live on the bommies.
- Advanced
- Frogfish
Reef
down to 20 m
Rainbow Reef
Nha Trang, Vietnam
A very colourful reef slope down to 20 m with many hard and soft corals.
- Advanced
Drift
down to 28 m
Rock Point West
Dumaguete, Dauin & Apo Island, Philippines
Hard coral coverage many divers rate the best around Apo Island, with frogfish, cuttlefish and banded sea kraits.
- Advanced
- Turtles
Reef
down to 12 m
Round Island (Frankland Islands)
Great Barrier Reef (Cairns & Port Douglas), Australia
Rocky reefs to 12 m cut by ledges, with nudibranchs, batfish and moray eels, off the quieter Frankland Islands south of Cairns.
- Open Water
- Turtles
Pinnacle
down to 20 m
Sail Rock
Gulen (Western Norway), Norway
A rock rising from 20 to 7 m beside the Ferndale and Parat wrecks, with sea plumes, dead men's fingers and dahlia anemones on its sides.
- Advanced
- Anemones
Wall
down to 40 m
San Pedro Sanctuary
Romblon, Philippines
A sanctuary wall well known for its large sea turtles, also home to sea snakes, eagle rays and schools of fish.
- Advanced
- Sharks
Macro
down to 25 m
Santa Sofia MPA
Southern Leyte (Sogod Bay), Philippines
A gentle hard-coral slope to a 25 m sandy bottom, patrolled by hawksbill turtles and home to pygmy seahorses and nudibranchs.
- Advanced
- Turtles
Reef
down to 12 m
Sardine Tooth
Trincomalee & East Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
A 1-12 m reef known in Tamil as Sala pallu, famous for its soft corals.
- Open Water
Macro
down to 10 m
Souda Bay (Plakias)
Crete, Greece
A sheltered sandy bay with Posidonia meadows, at most 10 m deep, where seahorses and broad-nosed pipefish can turn up.
- Open Water
- Stingrays
Pinnacle
down to 30 m
Sunken Island (Takot Reef)
Romblon, Philippines
The most famous site of the Cobrador Marine Sanctuary: a coral-covered submerged island with groupers, cuttlefish and, with luck, eagle rays or mantas.
- Advanced
- Manta rays
Reef
down to 18 m
Sveti Nikola (Poreč)
Istria, Croatia
Island in front of Poreč with a sponge-covered rocky slope down to 18 m, schools of fish and sometimes lobsters and conger eels.
- Open Water
- Conger eel
Reef
down to 25 m
Swami Rock
Trincomalee & East Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
Rays, morays and pufferfish around underwater statues on a 5-24 m dive below Trincomalee's Swami Rock.
- Advanced
- Moray eels
Reef
down to 16 m
Swami Rock West
Trincomalee & East Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
The west side of Swami Rock, 3-16 m, which a Trincomalee operator calls a very good Open Water training site.
- Open Water