Wall
down to 50 m
Paliton Wall
Siquijor, Philippines
Wall from 5 m covered in soft corals and gorgonians, rated the island's best place for nudibranchs and flatworms.
- Experienced
- Nudibranchs
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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
Wreck
down to 60 m
Parat
Gulen (Western Norway), Norway
The 30 m steamer that came to help the grounded Ferndale in 1944 and sank beside her, settling at 45-60 m.
- Technical
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
Wreck
down to 23 m
Pirapama
Recife & Pernambuco Wrecks, Brazil
A 19th-century steamship wreck at 19-23 m off Recife whose collision with the steamship Bahia is still a mystery; many pieces remain identifiable.
- Advanced
- Barracuda
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
Wreck
down to 15 m
Points West
Tobermory (Fathom Five), Canada
A wooden guide boat deliberately sunk in 15 m in 1984 as a recreational dive site.
- Open Water
down to 8 m
Porthgain
Pembrokeshire & Skomer, United Kingdom
Shallow harbour dive from a slipway, with lobsters, spider crabs and leopard-spotted gobies in the gullies.
- Open Water
Wreck
down to 28 m
Porto Pi Wrecks
Mallorca, Spain
Sunken cargo ships near the port of Palma, among the four largest wrecks of the island, reached by a line descent to 28 m.
- Advanced
Drift
down to 25 m
Punta Rica Drift
Mallorca, Spain
Drift along a 20 m drop-off and rock formations at a site only one dive centre visits.
- Advanced
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
down to 30 m
Ras Abu Galum
Dahab, Egypt
Remote protected-area site north of the Blue Hole where pinnacles act as cleaning stations for turtles, barracuda and eagle rays.
- Advanced
- Turtles
Wreck
down to 33 m
Rebocador Marte
Recife & Pernambuco Wrecks, Brazil
Three-deck tugboat sunk in 1997 as an artificial reef, rising from 33 m to 16 m.
- Advanced
Wreck
down to 16 m
Riksäpplet (Dalarö)
Stockholm Archipelago & Dalarö, Sweden
17th-century warship wreck off Dalarö, sunk in a storm in 1676 and lying at 16 m.
- Open Water
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
Wreck
down to 18 m
Salvatierra Wreck
La Paz & Sea of Cortez, Mexico
A ferry that sank in 1976 after striking Suwanee Reef, now resting on sand at 18 m as an artificial reef.
- Open Water
Wreck
down to 48 m
San Juan Wreck
Mactan (Cebu), Philippines
An intact 180 m passenger ferry sunk in 2000, covered in sponges and coral trees, with a photogenic propeller.
- Technical