Hilma Hooker
Bonaire
A 1984 cargo-ship wreck lying on its starboard side on a 30 m sandy plateau, its holds reachable through large openings.
- Advanced
- Wreck
- Barracuda
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74 dive sites
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
Artificial reef
down to 40 m
A-Frames (Finnart)
Argyll Sea Lochs (Loch Fyne & Loch Long), United Kingdom
A-frames from a WWII oil-terminal pier below 20 m, covered in anemones and dead men's fingers, with a crab-filled debris field at 8-12 m.
- Advanced
- Nudibranchs
Artificial reef
down to 16 m
Circle Divers House Reef (Jaz Dahabeya)
Dahab, Egypt
Shallow shore dive with a buoyancy park of hoops, an underwater sculpture museum and a 'Nemo House' clownfish bommie.
- Open Water
- Stingrays
Wreck
down to 18 m
Glen Strathallan
Plymouth & South Cornwall, United Kingdom
A ship deliberately sunk for divers, now a 15 m debris field around an upright boiler with cuttlefish, tompot blennies and octopus.
- Open Water
- Cuttlefish
Wreck
down to 40 m
Sea Tiger Wreck
Oahu, United States
A 190-foot cargo ship sitting upright in 100 feet of water a short boat ride from Waikiki, visited by turtles, eagle rays and reef sharks.
- Advanced
- Whitetip reef sharks
Wreck
down to 37 m
YO-257
Oahu, United States
A former Navy Yard Oiler that served in WWII and the Korean War, sunk off Waikiki in 1989 and visited by turtles, eagle rays and reef sharks.
- Advanced
- Whitetip reef sharks
Artificial reef
down to 30 m
29 Steps
Argyll Sea Lochs (Loch Fyne & Loch Long), United Kingdom
Easy beach entry to a training platform at about 9 m and a sunken rowing boat, with fireworks anemones and langoustines deeper down the slope.
- Open Water
- Anemones
Artificial reef
down to 7 m
Amuro Fish Reef
Okinawa & Yonaguni, Japan
Shallow 7 m artificial reefs off Amuro Island overgrown with finger coral and busy with fish.
- Open Water
Artificial reef
down to 13 m
Hidden gem
Baia Underwater Archaeological Park
Baia (Bay of Naples), Italy
Guided dives to the Nymphaeum of Emperor Claudius, the Villa dei Pisoni and Roman mosaic floors lying 4-8 m deep.
- Open Water
- Octopus
Wreck
down to 30 m
C-58 Wreck (General Pedro María Anaya)
Cancún & Isla Mujeres, Mexico
Former US minesweeper Harlequin, scuttled off Cancún in two pieces, where eagle rays shelter during winter.
- Advanced
- Eagle rays
Wreck
down to 30 m
Carthaginian II
Maui, United States
A former Lahaina whaling-museum ship scuttled in 2005 at 30 m, now a reef where frogfish can be found all over the hull.
- Advanced
- Turtles
Artificial reef
down to 10 m
Hidden gem
Cleopatra's Palace (Royal Quarter, Eastern Harbour)
Alexandria Eastern Harbour, Egypt
Sphinxes, red-granite columns and pavements of the royal quarter, plus a shipwreck carbon-dated to 90 BC-AD 130, in about 5 m of water.
- Open Water
Artificial reef
down to 18 m
Coral Garden (Tulamben)
Bali & Nusa Penida, Indonesia
Shallow shore dive off Tulamben beach where anemones host dozens of clownfish and coral bommies swarm with anthias.
- Open Water
- Turtles
Wreck
down to 37 m
Duane
Florida Keys, United States
A 327-ft ship sitting upright and intact off Key Largo, circled in one tank, with barracuda and schools of amberjacks.
- Advanced
- Barracuda
Wreck
down to 34 m
Habagat Wreck
Bohol & Panglao, Philippines
A purposely sunk pontoon off south-west Panglao, encrusted with soft corals and visited by schools of snapper, batfish and sweetlips.
- Advanced
- Frogfish
Wreck
down to 44 m
HMCS Cape Breton
Salish Sea (Vancouver, Victoria & Nanaimo), Canada
Recognized as the world's largest artificial upright reef, HMCS Cape Breton is a dive off Nanaimo.
- Advanced
Wreck
down to 40 m
HMCS Saskatchewan
Salish Sea (Vancouver, Victoria & Nanaimo), Canada
A 366-foot Mackenzie-class destroyer scuttled off Snake Island in 1997 that still has her forward and aft guns, home to cloud sponges, plumose anemones, wolf eels and octopus.
- Advanced
- Octopus
Wreck
down to 24 m
HMS Scylla
Plymouth & South Cornwall, United Kingdom
A 113 m Leander-class frigate placed on the seabed in 2004 as an artificial reef, now well colonised and home to sea fans.
- Advanced
Artificial reef
down to 30 m
Jemeluk Bay
Bali & Nusa Penida, Indonesia
Calm shore-entry bay in Amed with a sloping reef, statues and artificial structures, used for beginner training and relaxed fun dives.
- Advanced
- Cuttlefish
Wreck
down to 30 m
Mahi Wreck
Oahu, United States
A former naval minesweeper sunk off Waiʻanae, with schools of pufferfish, eagle rays, octopus and whitetip reef sharks.
- Advanced
- Whitetip reef sharks
Artificial reef
down to 15 m
Museo Atlántico
Canary Islands (Lanzarote & Fuerteventura), Spain
Europe's first underwater museum: over 300 sculptures by Jason deCaires Taylor off Lanzarote.
- Open Water
- Angel shark
Artificial reef
down to 6 m
Nest (Underwater Statues)
Gili Islands, Indonesia
A circle of 48 life-size figures by Jason deCaires Taylor in about 4 m of water at Gili Meno, slowly colonised as a reef.
- Open Water
- Turtles
Wreck
down to 18 m
Porteau Cove
Salish Sea (Vancouver, Victoria & Nanaimo), Canada
Shore-dive a buoy-marked area of man-made reefs and two sunken vessels in 6-18 m of water in a BC provincial park.
- Open Water
- Lingcod
Photo credits
- Hilma Hooker dive site, Bonaire, Kris Mikael Krister, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Ring of underwater sculptures at Molinere, Grenada, Boris Kasimov, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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