Muck
down to 35 m
Sta. Paz Ghost Town
Southern Leyte (Sogod Bay), Philippines
A muck site with a sandy southern area for mimic octopus and blue-spotted ribbontail rays, beside a vertical wall to 35 m.
- Advanced
- Stingrays
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1274 dive sites
down to 30 m
Stavsnäs vinterhamn
Stockholm Archipelago & Dalarö, Sweden
Shore site in Stavsnäs with pebble and sandy beach entries and a slow slope suited to new and experienced divers alike.
- Open Water
down to 20 m
Stingray City
Gulen (Western Norway), Norway
A sandy slope from 14 m where thorny rays up to a metre long are found on nearly every dive.
- Open Water
- Rays
Wreck
down to 6 m
Sugar Wreck
Bahamas
1800s sugar-ship wreck in 6 m near Tiger Beach, covered in snappers and sweetlips, with resting stingrays and visiting lemon sharks.
- Open Water
- Lemon shark
Pinnacle
down to 30 m
Sunken Island (Takot Reef)
Romblon, Philippines
The most famous site of the Cobrador Marine Sanctuary: a coral-covered submerged island with groupers, cuttlefish and, with luck, eagle rays or mantas.
- Advanced
- Manta rays
down to 10 m
Hidden gem
Susami Underwater Postbox
Susami Bay, Japan
A working postbox 10 m down in Susami Bay, officially part of the Susami post office; divers post special waterproof plastic postcards.
- Open Water
Reef
down to 18 m
Sveti Nikola (Poreč)
Istria, Croatia
Island in front of Poreč with a sponge-covered rocky slope down to 18 m, schools of fish and sometimes lobsters and conger eels.
- Open Water
- Conger eel
Reef
down to 25 m
Swami Rock
Trincomalee & East Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
Rays, morays and pufferfish around underwater statues on a 5-24 m dive below Trincomalee's Swami Rock.
- Advanced
- Moray eels
Reef
down to 16 m
Swami Rock West
Trincomalee & East Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
The west side of Swami Rock, 3-16 m, which a Trincomalee operator calls a very good Open Water training site.
- Open Water
Wreck
down to 7 m
Sweepstakes
Tobermory (Fathom Five), Canada
A two-masted 1867 schooner with an intact hull, windlass and part of its bow rail, lying at 7 m in Big Tub Harbour.
- Open Water
Macro
down to 27 m
Tangkaan (Heaven's Gate)
Southern Leyte (Sogod Bay), Philippines
An MPA slope of soft corals, barrel sponges and huge gorgonian fans near the mouth of Sogod Bay, with frogfish and passing barracuda.
- Advanced
- Whale sharks
Wall
down to 24 m
Tarpon Alley
Cayman Islands
A Grand Cayman wall at 15–24 m named for the many (at least 100) tarpon that shelter in its reef.
- Advanced
- Turtles
Pinnacle
down to 24 m
Temple of Doom
Great Barrier Reef (Cairns & Port Douglas), Australia
Bommie rising from 24 m to within 3 m of the surface, with schooling bluefin trevally, turtles under overhangs and minke whales in season.
- Advanced
- Minke whales
Artificial reef
down to 18 m
Temple Reef
Pondicherry, India
An artificial reef of recycled materials, the largest of its kind in south Asia, with more than 100 species recorded.
- Open Water
- Barracuda
Reef
down to 18 m
Ten Fathoms
Sri Lanka West & South (Colombo to Unawatuna), Sri Lanka
An inshore rocky reef no deeper than ten fathoms (18 m), with barrel sponges, whip corals and stingrays often on the sand.
- Open Water
- Stingrays
Artificial reef
down to 37 m
Tenneco Towers
Southeast Florida (Palm Beach to Miami), United States
Five oil production platforms sunk in 1985 form South Florida's largest artificial reef, from about 20 m at the tops down to 34 m.
- Experienced
down to 35 m
The Abyss
Netrani Island (Murudeshwar), India
A deep site that drops to 35 m.
- Experienced
Artificial reef
down to 20 m
The Cars
Dumaguete, Dauin & Apo Island, Philippines
Artificial reef built from discarded vehicles where flamboyant cuttlefish hunt and pygmy pipehorses cling to whip corals.
- Advanced
- Cuttlefish
Wreck
down to 12 m
The Dredger (Portland Harbour)
Dorset (Portland & Swanage), United Kingdom
A small, broken bucket-dredger wreck in 10-12 m at the foot of Portland's inner breakwater, a habitat for fish, squid and spider crabs.
- Open Water
- Squid
Wreck
down to 25 m
Thermopylae Sierra Wreck
Sri Lanka West & South (Colombo to Unawatuna), Sri Lanka
Colombo's biggest wreck, a 155 m ship sunk in 2012, with its main deck at 7-12 m and schools of parrotfish, surgeonfish and fusiliers.
- Advanced
- Whale sharks
Drift
down to 25 m
Tongo Point (Tonga Point)
Siquijor, Philippines
Wall dive dropping from 7 to 25 m with a fair chance of Napoleon wrasse and frogfish on the reef edge.
- Advanced
- Frogfish
Reef
down to 10 m
Turtle Rocks
Bahamas
Three rock formations on the edge of the Grand Bahama Bank, max 10 m, visited by spotted eagle rays and Caribbean reef and nurse sharks.
- Open Water
- Caribbean reef sharks
Pinnacle
down to 25 m
Twin Peaks
Coron, Philippines
Two coral seamounts with reef slopes to 25 m where white-tip reef sharks and barracuda may appear, and pygmy seahorses in the shallows.
- Advanced
- Whitetip reef sharks
down to 20 m
Twins
Koh Tao, Thailand
Two rocks off Koh Nang Yuan from 6 to 18 m, home to saddleback clownfish in their anemones.
- Open Water
- Clownfish