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Salt City

Bonaire

Part of Bonaire's southern double reef system, with a good chance of seeing turtles and eagle rays.

Willemstoren Lighthouse

Bonaire

Advanced-only site at Bonaire's southern tip with lots of schooling fish, lobsters under the corals and the occasional turtle or tarpon.

Yonaguni Monument (Underwater Ruins, Iseki Point)

Okinawa & Yonaguni, Japan

Giant terraced rock formations, natural or man-made depending on who you ask, with schooling hammerheads in winter.

Crystal Bay

Bali & Nusa Penida, Indonesia

One of the few places to see Mola Mola being cleaned, from July to November, above hard and soft coral gardens.

Half Moon Caye Wall

Belize

Garden eels on a 6 m sand shelf give way to a wall dropping past 30 m into the abyss, with reef sharks patrolling its edge in gentle currents.

Hin Daeng

Phuket & Koh Lanta, Thailand

One of Thailand's top sites for whale sharks and manta rays, with a wall at the south end dropping to about 70 m.

Kalanggaman Island

Malapascua, Philippines

Sandbar island with drop-offs where turtles patrol the walls and a thresher shark occasionally appears.

Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park

Grenada

Opened in May 2006 as the world's first underwater sculpture park, with over sixty-five concrete sculptures off Grenada's west coast.

Roca Partida

Socorro (Revillagigedo), Mexico

A split-rock pinnacle where whitetip reef sharks pack into crevices while silky and Galapagos sharks cruise the blue.

Palancar Bricks

Cozumel, Mexico

A maze of swim-throughs by a 30–50 ft mini wall and Palancar's main wall (14–27 m), with big groupers and hawksbill turtles.

Northern Arch

Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand

Perhaps the signature dive of the Poor Knights: an arch floored at 37 m beside one of the finest vertical wall descents at the islands.

Ras Katy

Sharm El Sheikh & Ras Mohammed, Egypt

Sharm pinnacles where red tooth triggers and Red Sea bannerfish gather over the reef.

Siete Pecados

Coron, Philippines

A marine-sanctuary reef of table and staghorn corals where turtles, Napoleon wrasse and mandarinfish can be seen.

Windsock

Bonaire

Cap Béar

Côte Vermeille (Banyuls & Collioure), France

Boo Windows

Raja Ampat, Indonesia

Capitancillo Island

Malapascua, Philippines

Koh Bida Nok

Phuket & Koh Lanta, Thailand

Los Islotes

La Paz & Sea of Cortez, Mexico

Agahuta

Anilao, Philippines

A gentle reef slope with low current, averaging around 10 m, listed for marine biology and photography.

Amazon

Tofo, Mozambique

A remote L-shaped reef 21 km out where manta rays, eagle rays, leopard sharks, bowmouth guitarfish and whitetip reef sharks are not uncommon.

Aquaventure House Reef

Anilao, Philippines

A shallow resort house reef with shore entry, listed for first dives, children's dives and dive training.

Balanoy

Anilao, Philippines

A 15 m reef close to the resorts, a short boat ride away, with low current and night dives possible.

Banderas

Cancún & Isla Mujeres, Mexico

Drift dive over a 12 m reef off Isla Mujeres where barracuda, scorpionfish, sea turtles and spotted morays are listed.