Pet Cemetery (Sac Actun)
Riviera Maya & Cenotes, Mexico
Shallow, calm cenote where the floor holds the jawbone of a tapir and remains of a prehistoric camel among stalactites.
- Advanced
- Cenote
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Roca Partida
Socorro (Revillagigedo), Mexico
A split-rock pinnacle where whitetip reef sharks pack into crevices while silky and Galapagos sharks cruise the blue.
- Advanced
- Wall
- Whale sharks
San Francisco Maru
Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia
The 'Million Dollar Wreck', a 117 m freighter named for its costly cargo.
- Technical
- Wreck
SS Dunraven
Sharm El Sheikh & Ras Mohammed, Egypt
Upturned steamer launched in 1872 that sank in 1876, lying from 15 m at the bow to 29 m at the stern.
- Advanced
- Wreck
- Moray eels
Betty Bomber
Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia
A shallow Japanese Navy bomber wreck off Eten Island, often followed by schools of batfish.
- Advanced
- Wreck
- Batfish
Big Drop Off
Palau
A vertical wall dropping to 900 feet, where hawksbill turtles feed and rest on the reef top.
- Open Water
- Wall
- Grey reef sharks
Christ of the Abyss (Cristo degli Abissi), San Fruttuoso
Portofino & San Fruttuoso, Italy
A bronze Christ placed in 1954 on the floor of San Fruttuoso bay, inside the Portofino Marine Protected Area.
- Open Water
Dean's Blue Hole
Bahamas
The world's third-deepest blue hole at 202 m, in a bay west of Clarence Town, Long Island, and the venue of freediving world records.
- Advanced
- Blue hole
- Sharks
El Aguila Wreck
Roatán & Bay Islands, Honduras
A 60 m cargo ship on its starboard side at about 33 m, where large groupers, sometimes 15 to 20, lurk inside alongside moray eels.
- Experienced
- Wreck
- Barracuda
Giannis D (Abu Nuhas)
Hurghada, Egypt
Abu Nuhas wreck whose engine room at 13 m allows easy penetration through clouds of glassfish.
- Advanced
- Wreck
- Nudibranchs
Heian Maru
Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia
At 163 m the largest wreck in Truk, a submarine tender with torpedoes still in its holds.
- Advanced
- Wreck
Iro Wreck
Palau
An upright WWII Japanese fleet oiler, torpedoed then sunk by aircraft in 1944, with its deck at 28 m and forward tower rising to 8 m.
- Advanced
- Wreck
Hidden gem
Lake Kaindy
Lake Kaindy, Kazakhstan
Trunks of submerged Schrenk's spruce stand in a 2,000 m alpine lake dammed by a landslide from the 1911 Kebin earthquake.
- Experienced
- Ice dive
Lake Tignes Ice Dive
Lake Tignes, France
Guided dives under 1-2 m of ice on the natural lake of Tignes, where trout overwinter beneath the frozen surface.
- Advanced
- Ice dive
Nippo Maru
Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia
A twin-barrel anti-aircraft gun, three Howitzers and a Japanese battle tank lie on this wreck.
- Technical
- Wreck
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.
- Advanced
- Wall
- Turtles
Siaes Tunnel
Palau
A 90 m tunnel open at both ends at 35–40 m, with grey reef sharks at the entrance and whitetips resting on the floor.
- Experienced
- Cavern
- Grey reef sharks
Carnatic (Abu Nuhas)
Hurghada, Egypt
Abu Nuhas wreck lying at 24 m parallel to the reef, home to sweepers, glassfish, batfish and nudibranchs.
- Advanced
- Wreck
- Nudibranchs
German Channel
Palau
A channel blasted through the reef where manta rays visit cleaning stations, with peak sightings from December to March.
- Advanced
- Drift
- Manta rays
Hol Chan Marine Reserve (Hol Chan Cut)
Belize
A shallow channel about 9 m deep in a marine reserve, where large groupers, nurse sharks, stingrays and green moray eels can be seen.
- Advanced
- Nurse sharks
Marsa Abu Dabab
Marsa Alam & the Brothers, Egypt
Easy shore dive to 20 m in a bay where you may meet a dugong among many giant green sea turtles.
- Open Water
- Dugong
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.
- Experienced
- Rock formations
- Stingrays
Ras Katy
Sharm El Sheikh & Ras Mohammed, Egypt
Sharm pinnacles where red tooth triggers and Red Sea bannerfish gather over the reef.
- Open Water
- Pinnacle
Hidden gem
Rikoriko Cave
Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand
Dive inside the largest sea cave by volume in the southern hemisphere, where schools of blue and pink maomao gather in the shade.
- Advanced
- Cavern
- Stingrays
Photo credits
- Pet Cemetery Cenote dive site, Riviera Maya Cenotes, Serge Melki from Indianapolis, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Roca Partida dive site, Socorro, Raphaelgatti, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Type 95 tank on the deck of the San Francisco Maru, Chuuk, montereydiver, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Dunraven Wreck dive site, Sharm El Sheikh / Gulf of Suez, W.Strickling, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cockpit of the Betty bomber wreck, Chuuk, montereydiver, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Anemonefish on the Big Drop Off reef, Palau, Matt Kieffer from London, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- The Christ of the Abyss statue, San Fruttuoso, Lucianoro1, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Dean's Blue Hole dive site, Long Island, Bahamas, Ton Engwirda, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, via Wikimedia Commons
- Green moray on the El Aguila wreck, Roatán, w:en:Aquaimages (talk | contribs), CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
- Divers at the bow of the Giannis D wreck, Abu Nuhas, W.Strickling, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Shells lying in the Heian Maru wreck, Chuuk, Motoki Kurabayashi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Anemonefish on the wreck of the tanker Iro, Palau, w:en:Aquaimages (talk | contribs), CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
- Drowned spruce trunks rising from Lake Kaindy, Kazakhstan, Katariyakartikey, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Lake Tignes Ice Dive site, French Alps, Rundvald, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- Artillery piece on the deck of the Nippo Maru, Chuuk, w:en:Aquaimages (talk | contribs), CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
- Swim-through on Palancar Reef, Cozumel, Johnnie Flashlite, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Divers inside Siaes Tunnel, Palau, LuxTonnerre, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Inside the Carnatic wreck, Abu Nuhas, Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Manta ray gliding through German Channel, Palau, amanderson2, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Green sea turtle in Hol Chan Marine Reserve, Belize, Nikdahl, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Green sea turtle in the bay of Abu Dabbab, Marsa Alam, Jan Beránek, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Diver at the Northern Arch, Poor Knights Islands, Anna Barnett, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Giant moray in the coral at Ras Katy, Sharm El Sheikh, Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Entrance of Rikoriko Cave, Poor Knights Islands, Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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