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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.

Darwin's Arch (Darwin's Towers)

Galápagos, Ecuador

Wall drift beside the pillars of the arch that collapsed in May 2021, with large numbers of hammerheads, silky and Galápagos sharks.

Elphinstone

Marsa Alam & the Brothers, Egypt

Open-ocean reef 25 km north of Marsa Alam where oceanic whitetips frequent the southern plateau, best October to December.

Makassar Reef (Manta Point)

Komodo, Indonesia

Shallow manta cleaning-station drift where reef mantas show up year-round, peaking December–April with 4–12 on a good dive.

Palancar Gardens

Cozumel, Mexico

Sloping reef and wall with gentle currents, much of the dive at 12–25 m, a good introduction to drift diving.

Paradise Reef

Cozumel, Mexico

Three long coral ridges in mild current off Marina Caleta, popular for night dives; look out for toadfish.

Ulong Channel

Palau

Ride the channel current past lettuce coral grown 15–20 feet from the bottom, with grey reef sharks and batfish at the mouth.

Daedalus Reef

Marsa Alam & the Brothers, Egypt

Lighthouse reef 80 km off Marsa Alam, only reached by liveaboard, where schooling hammerheads gather, especially in summer.

German Channel

Palau

A channel blasted through the reef where manta rays visit cleaning stations, with peak sightings from December to March.

Dollabarat

Azores, Portugal

Amazon

Tofo, Mozambique

A remote L-shaped reef 21 km out where manta rays, eagle rays, leopard sharks, bowmouth guitarfish and whitetip reef sharks are not uncommon.

Banderas

Cancún & Isla Mujeres, Mexico

Drift dive over a 12 m reef off Isla Mujeres where barracuda, scorpionfish, sea turtles and spotted morays are listed.

Browning Wall

Port Hardy & God's Pocket, Canada

Vertical, current-swept wall covered in orange and red soft corals, giant Metridium anemones and nudibranchs.

Cape Kri

Raja Ampat, Indonesia

Drift dive with record fish diversity: 374 species counted on this single site, plus chevron barracuda and reef sharks.

Castle Rock

Komodo, Indonesia

North Komodo site where grey, whitetip and blacktip reef sharks cruise the blue alongside big schools of giant trevally, dogtooth tuna and barracuda.

Garuae Pass (North Pass)

Fakarava & Rangiroa, French Polynesia

French Polynesia's widest pass, 1,600 m across, dived on the incoming tide for sharks, tuna and barracuda; some dives end at Ali Baba.

Giant's Castle

Tofo, Mozambique

A wall drift where giant manta rays visit three cleaning stations and huge potato groupers come to check divers out.

Manta Reef

Tofo, Mozambique

Tofo's signature deep reef: a gentle north-south drift through an amphitheatre of pinnacles shrouded in fish.

Samran Pinnacle

Koh Samui & Koh Phangan, Thailand

Open-sea shoal about 4 nautical miles west-northwest of Sail Rock (Hin Bai), dived as a drift with visibility up to 30 m.

Santa Rosa

Mactan (Cebu), Philippines

On the edge of the Olango marine sanctuary, this site becomes a drift dive along the reef when the tide is good.

Santa Rosa Wall

Cozumel, Mexico

Drift a vertical wall that drops into deep blue past giant barrel sponges, with spotted eagle rays a regular presence in winter.

Tunnelen

Bodø & Saltstraumen, Norway

A slack-tide dive along a wall of yellow dead man's fingers, descending through a cloud of coalfish to 27 m to meet an enormous cod.

Arco Point

Bohol & Panglao, Philippines

Panglao wall with a cave teeming with cardinalfish and home to white-eyed moray eels; most interesting between 10 and 15 m.

Black Forest

Bohol & Panglao, Philippines

A drift over sloping reef to black coral at depth, with turtles on the reef and schools of jacks and triggerfish in the blue.