Tiger Beach
Bahamas
Kneel on shallow sand about 20 miles off West End to watch tiger sharks, some females up to 4.5 m long, alongside lemon sharks.
- Advanced
- Pelagic
- Bull sharks
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Ulong Channel
Palau
Ride the channel current past lettuce coral grown 15–20 feet from the bottom, with grey reef sharks and batfish at the mouth.
- Advanced
- Drift
- Grey reef sharks
USAT Liberty Wreck
Bali & Nusa Penida, Indonesia
A 120 m WWII US Army cargo ship resting on its side in 10–30 m, only a few fin-kicks from Tulamben's shore.
- Advanced
- Wreck
- Reef sharks
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.
- Advanced
- Reef
- Turtles
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.
- Advanced
- Rock formations
Hidden gem
Piccaninnie Ponds
Mount Gambier sinkholes, Australia
A spring-fed pool of startlingly clear water; its deeper chasm is reserved for cave divers.
- Technical
- Cave
Hidden gem
Barracuda Lake
Coron, Philippines
A lake where fresh water sits on top of salt water heated by geothermal vents to 38 C, with a resident barracuda.
- Advanced
- Lake
- Barracuda
Big Brother
Marsa Alam & the Brothers, Egypt
Sheer coral walls plus two wrecks, the Numidia and Aida, with a chance of thresher sharks on dawn dives in autumn and winter.
- Experienced
- Wreck
- Grey reef sharks
Blue Holes
Palau
Drop through four reef-top holes into a large light-filled cavern, then swim 7–10 minutes on to Blue Corner.
- Experienced
- Blue hole
- Nudibranchs
Casa Cenote
Riviera Maya & Cenotes, Mexico
An open-overhead dive along a winding mangrove-lined river for about 228 m, with platys, guppies and mollies among the roots.
- Open Water
- Cenote
- Crocodiles
Cenote Chac Mool
Riviera Maya & Cenotes, Mexico
Large rooms with a halocline, an air dome and what Pro Dive calls the largest underwater stalactite in the world; laser-like light on sunny days.
- Advanced
- Cenote
Cenote Dos Ojos
Riviera Maya & Cenotes, Mexico
Two cavern routes, the Barbie line and the Batcave, where you surface in an air dome filled with bats.
- Advanced
- Cenote
- Turtles
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.
- Advanced
- Reef
- Whale sharks
Daedalus Reef
Marsa Alam & the Brothers, Egypt
Lighthouse reef 80 km off Marsa Alam, only reached by liveaboard, where schooling hammerheads gather, especially in summer.
- Advanced
- Drift
- Manta rays
Devil's Den
Florida Springs, United States
An underground spring inside a dry cave, with stalactite rock formations and Pleistocene fossil beds, at 72 °F year round.
- Advanced
- Spring
El Mina Wreck
Hurghada, Egypt
Minesweeper wreck near Hurghada whose blast hole shelters clouds of glassfish hunted by lionfish and jackfish.
- Advanced
- Wreck
Gran Cenote
Riviera Maya & Cenotes, Mexico
Part of the Sac Aktun system near Tulum: white walls, crystal clear water and highly decorated passages to a max of 10 m.
- Technical
- Cenote
- Turtles
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.
- Advanced
- Wall
- Manta rays
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.
- Experienced
- Wall
- Whale sharks
Kalanggaman Island
Malapascua, Philippines
Sandbar island with drop-offs where turtles patrol the walls and a thresher shark occasionally appears.
- Advanced
- Wall
- Thresher sharks
King Cruiser Wreck
Phuket & Koh Lanta, Thailand
An 85 m passenger ferry that sank upright in 30 m after hitting Anemone Reef in 1997, now circled by schools of trevally and barracuda.
- Experienced
- Wreck
- Barracuda
Hidden gem
Kreidesee Hemmoor
Hemmoor Chalk Lake, Germany
A flooded chalk quarry to 60 m with an old access road, flooded houses and forest, plus a sailboat at 14 m and a plane at 12 m.
- Advanced
- Wreck
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.
- Open Water
- Artificial reef
Navy Pier
Ningaloo Reef, Australia
A working Navy pier dived only with a licensed operator, home to over 200 fish species from giant Queensland gropers to schooling trevally.
- Advanced
- Jetty / pier
- Ragged-tooth sharks
Photo credits
- Caribbean reef sharks at Tiger Beach, Bahamas, Dennis Hipp (Zepto), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Sea star on the bottom of Ulong Channel, Palau, LuxTonnerre, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- USAT Liberty dive site, Bali / Nusa Penida, G patkar, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Willemstoren Lighthouse dive site, Bonaire, García-Hernández, J.E., de Gier, W., van Moorsel, G.W.N.M. et al. The scleractinian Agaricia undata as a new host for the coral-gall crab Opecarcinus hypostegus at Bonaire, southern Caribbean. Symbiosis 81, 303–311 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13199-020-00706-8, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Stepped rock terraces of the Yonaguni Monument, Melkov, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Piccaninnie Ponds dive site, Australia, Mark Whatmough, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Barracuda Lake Dive site, Coron, Madcel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Big Brother Island and its lighthouse, Red Sea, Alexander Vasenin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Blue Holes Palau dive site, Palau, w:en:Aquaimages (talk | contribs), CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
- Casa Cenote dive site, Riviera Maya Cenotes, dronepicr, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cenote Chac Mool dive site, Riviera Maya Cenotes, Waielbi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Dos Ojos Cenote dive site, Riviera Maya, Biomanu58, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Crystal Bay dive site, Bali / Nusa Penida, Magul, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Lighthouse on Daedalus Reef, Red Sea, Alexander Vasenin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Devil's Den Spring dive site, Florida, Eric Beach, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Diver under the hull of the El Mina wreck, Hurghada, Jouni Kuisma, DiveCodex, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Gran Cenote dive site, Riviera Maya Cenotes, Ken Thomas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- Half Moon Caye, Lighthouse Reef, Belize, anoldent from Asheville, NC, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Spotfin lionfish at Hin Daeng, (c) portioid, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Kalanggaman Island sandbar, Gcabig2024, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Coral-covered structure of the King Cruiser wreck, Ralf Schmidt, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Diver above a shark sculpture in Kreidesee Hemmoor, Dr. W. Strickling, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Ring of underwater sculptures at Molinere, Grenada, Boris Kasimov, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Navy Pier, Exmouth, No machine-readable author provided. Summi~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
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