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Coral Cave Gozo

Malta, Gozo & Comino, Malta

A large open cavern at Dwejra from 17 m to a 28-30 m seabed, its walls and ceiling covered in corals with slipper lobsters.

Great Blue Hole

Belize

A deep dive to about 30-40 m among stalactites under the overhangs, watching for nurse, Caribbean reef and blacktip sharks on the ascent.

Jackfish Alley

Sharm El Sheikh & Ras Mohammed, Egypt

Ras Mohammed drift with sunlit swim-throughs at 5 and 15 m, then an alley of jackfish and whitetip reef sharks.

The Canyon

Dahab, Egypt

Descend between narrowing walls from 18 to 30 m in a cave with an open ceiling, where a swarm of glassfish lives at the old exit.

Bells to Blue Hole

Dahab, Egypt

Drop through the Bells chimney to a wall at about 25 m, then follow the wall to cross the 7 m saddle into the Blue Hole.

Blue Hole (Dwejra)

Malta, Gozo & Comino, Malta

A limestone sinkhole whose underwater window at 9 m opens onto the open sea, its walls covered in tubeworms and sponges.

Boesmansgat (Bushman's Hole)

Boesmansgat, South Africa

Gomes dived this Northern Cape cave to 282.6 m in 1996, setting the record for the deepest scuba dive in a freshwater cave.

Cenote Angelita

Riviera Maya & Cenotes, Mexico

A circular cenote dropping to 60 m, with a hydrogen sulfide cloud at 30 m that looks like a cloud with trunks and branches reaching through it.

Cenote Calavera (Temple of Doom)

Riviera Maya & Cenotes, Mexico

Jump in through a round hole in the rock, circle a central sediment hill and move through three different halocline layers.

Migra Ferha

Malta, Gozo & Comino, Malta

Beneath the Dingli Cliffs, a wall dive with caves, caverns, overhangs and an archway, dropping beyond 60 m.

Ras ir-Raheb

Malta, Gozo & Comino, Malta

A boat-only wall dive on Malta's west coast with a cave running from the surface down to about 25 m.

The Pit (El Pit)

Riviera Maya & Cenotes, Mexico

Sun beams pierce the shaft as you sink through a shallow halocline to a hydrogen sulfide cloud at 30 m with tree branches protruding.

Piccaninnie Ponds

Mount Gambier sinkholes, Australia

A spring-fed pool of startlingly clear water; its deeper chasm is reserved for cave divers.

Blue Holes

Palau

Drop through four reef-top holes into a large light-filled cavern, then swim 7–10 minutes on to Blue Corner.

Casa Cenote

Riviera Maya & Cenotes, Mexico

An open-overhead dive along a winding mangrove-lined river for about 228 m, with platys, guppies and mollies among the roots.

Cenote Chac Mool

Riviera Maya & Cenotes, Mexico

Large rooms with a halocline, an air dome and what Pro Dive calls the largest underwater stalactite in the world; laser-like light on sunny days.

Cenote Dos Ojos

Riviera Maya & Cenotes, Mexico

Two cavern routes, the Barbie line and the Batcave, where you surface in an air dome filled with bats.

Gran Cenote

Riviera Maya & Cenotes, Mexico

Part of the Sac Aktun system near Tulum: white walls, crystal clear water and highly decorated passages to a max of 10 m.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Chandelier Cave

Palau

Four flooded chambers, each with an air pocket, in a rock island under a mile from Koror's dive shops; bring a light.

Cenote Tajma Ha

Riviera Maya & Cenotes, Mexico