Buddy's Reef
Bonaire
Buddy Dive Resort's house reef, perfect for beginners, where black crinoids perch on coral heads and a resident tarpon greets most night divers.
- Open Water
- Reef
- Turtles
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Cai
Bonaire
East-coast reef for experienced divers with a guide, where turtles, eagle rays and moray eels thrive and large schools including tarpon roam.
- Experienced
- Reef
- Turtles
Cathedral
Aliwal Shoal & Protea Banks, South Africa
In raggie season up to 40 ragged-tooth sharks rest in this reef amphitheatre; in summer, look out for hammerheads above.
- Advanced
- Rock formations
- Hammerhead sharks
Cenote Angelita
Riviera Maya & Cenotes, Mexico
A circular cenote dropping to 60 m, with a hydrogen sulfide cloud at 30 m that looks like a cloud with trunks and branches reaching through it.
- Experienced
- Cenote
Cenote Calavera (Temple of Doom)
Riviera Maya & Cenotes, Mexico
Jump in through a round hole in the rock, circle a central sediment hill and move through three different halocline layers.
- Advanced
- Cenote
Chumphon Pinnacle
Koh Tao, Thailand
Granite pinnacle 12 km northwest of Koh Tao, the site where Black Turtle Dive logs its most whale shark sightings, amid huge schools of trevally and snapper.
- Advanced
- Pinnacle
- Whale sharks
Cirkewwa Arch
Malta, Gozo & Comino, Malta
A natural underwater archway, the remains of a collapsed cavern, with its top 12 m below the surface and 8 m above the seabed.
- Advanced
- Rock formations
- Groupers
Darwin's Arch (Darwin's Towers)
Galápagos, Ecuador
Wall drift beside the pillars of the arch that collapsed in May 2021, with large numbers of hammerheads, silky and Galápagos sharks.
- Experienced
- Drift
- Whale sharks
Elphinstone
Marsa Alam & the Brothers, Egypt
Open-ocean reef 25 km north of Marsa Alam where oceanic whitetips frequent the southern plateau, best October to December.
- Advanced
- Drift
- Manta rays
Haleiwa Trench
Oahu, United States
Shore dive off Haleiwa Beach Park into a reef-cut trench with ledged walls and small caves, bottoming near 30 m.
- Advanced
- Wall
- Turtles
Makassar Reef (Manta Point)
Komodo, Indonesia
Shallow manta cleaning-station drift where reef mantas show up year-round, peaking December–April with 4–12 on a good dive.
- Advanced
- Drift
- Manta rays
Migra Ferha
Malta, Gozo & Comino, Malta
Beneath the Dingli Cliffs, a wall dive with caves, caverns, overhangs and an archway, dropping beyond 60 m.
- Experienced
- Cavern
- Octopus
Moray Garden
Dahab, Egypt
Walk-in shore dive where holes and cracks hide morays, nudibranchs and scorpionfish, with a school of yellowtail barracuda at 7 m.
- Open Water
- Reef
- Whale sharks
P29 (Boltenhagen)
Malta, Gozo & Comino, Malta
A 52 m former German patrol boat, Boltenhagen, scuttled in 2007 off Ċirkewwa, its highest part only 12 m deep.
- Advanced
- Wreck
Palancar Gardens
Cozumel, Mexico
Sloping reef and wall with gentle currents, much of the dive at 12–25 m, a good introduction to drift diving.
- Advanced
- Drift
- Turtles
Panagsama Sardine Run (House Reef)
Moalboal, Philippines
A sardine ball that spreads from 2 to about 15 m off Panagsama Beach, hunted by mackerels and tuna, with a thresher shark if you are lucky.
- Open Water
- Wall
- Whale sharks
Paradise Reef
Cozumel, Mexico
Three long coral ridges in mild current off Marina Caleta, popular for night dives; look out for toadfish.
- Open Water
- Drift
- Octopus
Pescador Island
Moalboal, Philippines
A protected island off Moalboal known for swim-throughs and tunnels that split the reef, with schooling fish, reef sharks and turtles.
- Advanced
- Wall
- Whitetip reef sharks
Playa Funchi
Bonaire
Washington Slagbaai National Park site where horse-eye jacks cruise the blue and the shallows teem with small, curious fish.
- Advanced
- Reef
- Turtles
Princess Alice Bank (Banco Princesa Alice)
Azores, Portugal
Offshore seamount 3 hours from Pico/Faial, rising to about 35 m, known for devil rays and visibility up to 40 m.
- Experienced
- Pinnacle
- Mobula rays
Ras ir-Raheb
Malta, Gozo & Comino, Malta
A boat-only wall dive on Malta's west coast with a cave running from the surface down to about 25 m.
- Experienced
- Cavern
- Barracuda
Rozi
Malta, Gozo & Comino, Malta
A 35 m tug scuttled in 1992, dived from the shore at Ċirkewwa about 130 m from the entry point.
- Advanced
- Wreck
Salt City
Bonaire
Part of Bonaire's southern double reef system, with a good chance of seeing turtles and eagle rays.
- Advanced
- Reef
- Turtles
The Pit (El Pit)
Riviera Maya & Cenotes, Mexico
Sun beams pierce the shaft as you sink through a shallow halocline to a hydrogen sulfide cloud at 30 m with tree branches protruding.
- Experienced
- Cenote
Photo credits
- Buddy's Reef dive site, Bonaire, (c) Jay Brasher, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cai Bonaire dive site, Lac Cai, Bonaire, Paul Arps from The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cathedral Aliwal Shoal dive site, Aliwal Shoal, South Africa, Peter Southwood, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cenote Angelita dive site, Riviera Maya Cenotes, Offthebeatonpath, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cenote Calavera dive site, Riviera Maya Cenotes, Offthebeatonpath, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Pink anemonefish at Chumphon Pinnacle, Koh Tao, yeowatzup, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cirkewwa Arch dive site, Malta / Gozo / Comino, Pstraudo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- The two pillars left after the collapse of Darwin's Arch, 2024, Scopoli, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Elphinstone Reef dive site, Marsa Alam, Dereck Keats, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Haleiwa Trench dive site, Oahu, Hawaii, Devilfish808, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Manta Point (Komodo) dive site, Komodo National Park, Indonesia, Siharaditia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Migra Ferha dive site, Malta, Continentaleurope, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Moray Garden Dahab dive site, Dahab, Egypt, Yvesb, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- P29 Boltenhagen Wreck dive site, Malta / Gozo / Comino, Pstraudo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Palancar Gardens dive site, Cozumel, Mexico, Matthewselig2019, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Sardine school over the reef at Panagsama, Moalboal, Iampjanz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Paradise Reef Cozumel dive site, Cozumel, Mexico, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- Pescador Island off Moalboal, P199, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Playa Funchi dive site, Bonaire, SNORKELINGDIVES.COM, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Divers on the Princess Alice Bank, Azores, Waielbi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Ras ir Rahab Cave dive site, Ras ir-Raħeb, Malta, RomanoPhileas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- MV Rozi Wreck dive site, Malta / Gozo / Comino, Richard Kingfelt, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Salt City dive site, Bonaire, LASZLO ILYES from Cleveland, Ohio, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cenote The Pit dive site, Riviera Maya Cenotes, Serge Melki from Indianapolis, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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