Reef
down to 25 m
Melissa's Garden
Raja Ampat, Indonesia
A shallow hard-coral garden plateau from 5 m with staghorn and plate coral, pygmy seahorses, wobbegongs and reef sharks.
- Open Water
- Manta rays
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Drift
down to 30 m
Meno Wall
Gili Islands, Indonesia
A Gili Meno wall and top night dive, with Spanish dancers, lobsters, crabs from tiny to huge sponge crabs, and sleeping turtles.
- Advanced
- Cuttlefish
Wreck
down to 30 m
Messerschmitt 109 Wreck
Crete, Greece
A WWII German Messerschmitt 109 fighter at 24 m with intact wings and fuselage and a visible machine gun.
- Experienced
- Groupers
Reef
down to 20 m
Michaelmas Cay
Great Barrier Reef (Cairns & Port Douglas), Australia
A sand cay where first-time divers can walk in off the beach into shallow water with green turtles and giant clams.
- Open Water
- Turtles
Reef
down to 30 m
Middle Garden
Sharm El Sheikh & Ras Mohammed, Egypt
A shallow hard-coral wall plateauing at about 10 m beside a sandy road where stingrays rest, usually dived from a fixed mooring.
- Open Water
- Stingrays
Drift
down to 24 m
Minerva Ledge
Andaman Islands (Havelock & Neil), India
A large coral plateau that takes more than one dive, visited by Napoleon wrasse, eagle rays and whitetip sharks.
- Advanced
- Tiger sharks
Wreck
down to 24 m
Monkey Beach
Puerto Galera, Philippines
A 5–24 m coral slope with a sailboat wreck, mantis shrimp and fusiliers.
- Advanced
- Turtles
Wreck
down to 45 m
Monkey Wreck
Puerto Galera, Philippines
The remains of an overturned boat resting against a short wall in the Monkey Beach area.
- Experienced
- Turtles
Rock formations
down to 35 m
Mononaftis
Crete, Greece
A huge rock off Agia Pelagia where divers regularly meet large schools of barracudas along the reef at 30 m.
- Open Water
- Stingrays
Muck
down to 12 m
Montani Bay
Puerto Galera, Philippines
A 4-12 m sandy muck site where divers have found thorny seahorses, flamboyant cuttlefish and even a hedgehog seahorse.
- Open Water
- Blue-ringed octopus
Macro
down to 18 m
Moray Beach
Nha Trang, Vietnam
A sandy slope with coral bommies down to 18 m, popular for training dives, where giant morays, frogfish and ribbon eels live.
- Open Water
- Frogfish
Wreck
down to 26 m
Morazan Maru (Ekkai Maru)
Coron, Philippines
A wreck lying on its side at 12-26 m, teeming with snappers and cardinalfish, with the occasional turtle.
- Advanced
- Turtles
Wreck
down to 40 m
MV Gudrun Gisladottir (Ballstad)
Narvik & Lofoten, Norway
A 71 m Icelandic trawler lost off Ballstad in 2002, in even better condition than the Hadsel and lying between 27 and 40 m.
- Experienced
Wreck
down to 32 m
MV Produce
Aliwal Shoal & Protea Banks, South Africa
A molasses freighter sunk in 1974, lying upright in three sections; home to lionfish and, reputedly, two giant brindle bass.
- Advanced
- Tiger sharks
Drift
down to 60 m
Napantao Marine Sanctuary (Napantao Wall)
Southern Leyte (Sogod Bay), Philippines
The area's first marine protected area across the bay from Padre Burgos: a wall of huge gorgonians and anthias that pelagics and whale sharks visit.
- Advanced
- Whale sharks
Wreck
down to 27 m
Nebo
Aliwal Shoal & Protea Banks, South Africa
An 1884 steamer wreck with its propeller and boiler still visible, large shoals of baitfish all year, and barracuda and tuna hunting them.
- Advanced
- Tuna
Artificial reef
down to 15 m
Neptune Memorial Reef
Southeast Florida (Palm Beach to Miami), United States
An underwater memorial reef inspired by the Lost City of Atlantis, in about 15 m of water 3.25 miles east of Key Biscayne.
- Open Water
Wreck
down to 31 m
Niagara II
Tobermory (Fathom Five), Canada
A wreck purpose-sunk upright in 1999 for diving, with the top of the wheelhouse at about 14 m.
- Advanced
Drift
down to 40 m
North Point Sipadan
Sipadan & Semporna, Malaysia
A ridge rising from 40 m to a 12 m peak at Sipadan's northern tip, where the current splits around the corner.
- Advanced
- Sharks
Reef
down to 18 m
North Seymour
Galápagos, Ecuador
A rocky reef sloping to sand at 16-18 m where black and whitetip reef sharks, turtles and spotted eagle rays are regulars.
- Advanced
- Blacktip reef sharks
Drift
down to 25 m
North Wall
Malapascua, Philippines
Continuation of Lapus Lapus often done as a combined drift, with a deeper west side to 25 m and a 12 m reef to the east.
- Open Water
Reef
down to 30 m
Ogden Point Breakwater
Salish Sea (Vancouver, Victoria & Nanaimo), Canada
Victoria's most popular shore dive, day and night: tiers of stacked stone blocks stepping down to 21 m, with wolf eels and nudibranchs.
- Open Water
- Nudibranchs
Reef
down to 40 m
Osaki Hanagoi Reef
Okinawa & Yonaguni, Japan
Shallow, current-free reef off Sakieda where schools of yellowfin goatfish and snapper gather; a classic for beginners and photographers.
- Advanced
- Snappers
Rock formations
down to 40 m
Paglugaban
El Nido, Philippines
Boulder field near Miniloc with some of El Nido's best rock formations and swim-throughs above a shallow coral garden.
- Experienced
- Turtles