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Bangug Island

Romblon, Philippines

A gentle slope of soft corals and coral-covered rocks off a small island near Bonbon Beach, a favourite for rare nudibranchs and shrimp.

Blue Ribbon House Reef

Anilao, Philippines

An 11 m house reef just in front of the resort with nudibranchs, clownfish and cleaner shrimp, good for practising macro photography.

Bounty Wreck

Gili Islands, Indonesia

A sunken structure off Gili Meno from about 5 to 20 m, suiting beginners and snorkelers, home to moray eels, lionfish and scorpionfish.

Dari-Laut

Anilao, Philippines

A sunken wreck at about 25-30 m surrounded by Anilao macro life, with nudibranchs almost everywhere.

Exotic House Reef

Malapascua, Philippines

A 12 m muck and reef house reef where PADI lists frogfish, seahorses, pipefish, octopus and nudibranchs.

Hans Reef

Gili Islands, Indonesia

A Gili Air macro and muck site known for warty, painted and giant frogfish, leaf scorpionfish, seahorses and ribbon eels.

Hogfish Reef

Bahamas

Hard and soft coral garden at 10-15 m near Tiger Beach, with schooling grunts and snappers and resident hogfish and wrasse.

Jack Neil Point

Utila, Honduras

Shallow spur-and-groove reef (max 12 m) for long, relaxed dives hunting seahorses, toadfish and flying gurnards.

Ka Osting

Malapascua, Philippines

A shallow site close to Malapascua mixing muck and coral, where critter hunters find bobtail squid and decorator crabs.

Koala

Anilao, Philippines

A sandy rubble slope nicknamed Critter Capital, where photographers look for wonderpus, harlequin shrimp and rhinopias.

Mandarin Valley (Kapalai)

Sipadan & Semporna, Malaysia

A Kapalai coral slope down to a small boat wreck at 18 m, where mandarinfish dance at dusk.

Nudibranch Garden

Phú Quốc, Vietnam

Very shallow northern reef known for godiva nudibranchs, with the chance of a bamboo shark under a rock or coral.

Palagala

Sri Lanka West & South (Colombo to Unawatuna), Sri Lanka

A shallow rocky ridge 800 m off the beach with nudibranchs, scorpionfish, pipefish and octopus, and stingrays under its ledges.

Paradise I & II (Mabul)

Sipadan & Semporna, Malaysia

Mabul house reefs at 5–18 m with ghost pipefish, frogfish, sea moths and juvenile cuttlefish.

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.

Pyramids

Dumaguete, Dauin & Apo Island, Philippines

Black sand, reef patches and artificial structures where frogfish of several colours live on the bommies.

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.

Santa Sofia MPA

Southern Leyte (Sogod Bay), Philippines

A gentle hard-coral slope to a 25 m sandy bottom, patrolled by hawksbill turtles and home to pygmy seahorses and nudibranchs.

Secret Bay

Puerto Galera, Philippines

A slow-search muck site on sand for rare fish and critters, suited to macro photography.

Souda Bay (Plakias)

Crete, Greece

A sheltered sandy bay with Posidonia meadows, at most 10 m deep, where seahorses and broad-nosed pipefish can turn up.

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.

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.

The Cars

Dumaguete, Dauin & Apo Island, Philippines

Artificial reef built from discarded vehicles where flamboyant cuttlefish hunt and pygmy pipehorses cling to whip corals.

Nudi Falls

Lembeh Strait, Indonesia