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Map Species Parks Diving

Diving and snorkelling

Explore the world underwater

553 diving and snorkelling sites across 117 countries — from coral reefs to wrecks more than 300 metres deep.

553documented dive sites117countries300metres maximum depth

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Depth (m)4 m – 300 m

Depth (m) — minimum valueDepth (m) — maximum value

Visibility (m)5 m – 35 m

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Water temperature (°C)20 °C – 28 °C

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Hammerhead sharks

Caves and cenotes

Snorkelling-friendly

Technical diving

Ningaloo Reef

Australia

68 speciesSee dive site

Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park

Philippines

63 speciesSee dive site

Ogasawara Islands

Japan

59 speciesSee dive site

Second World War wreck

Bell Island Wrecks

Canada

45 speciesSee dive site

Aitutaki

Cook Islands

45 speciesSee dive site

About these dive sites

Dive and snorkelling sites with the data you need to choose one — depth range, recommended certification, visibility, water temperature, current, access and best season, wherever they are documented — and the marine species recorded at each site. Where each piece of data comes from is explained in how we build our profiles.

Looe Key

United States

Up to 20 m · Open Water

25 m27 °C

Surface pelagic

Isla Mujeres (whale shark)

Mexico

Up to 15 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Nassau (shark diving)

Bahamas

Up to 20 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m27 °C

Artificial reef/Memorial

Neptune Memorial Reef (Miami)

United States

Up to 12 m · Open Water

20 m26 °C

Turneffe Atoll

Belize

Up to 35 m · Open Water

25 m27 °C

Jardines de la Reina

Cuba

Up to 30 m · Open Water

35 m27 °C

Ambergris Caye

Belize

Up to 25 m · Open Water

30 m27 °C

San Blas Islands (Guna Yala)

Panama

Up to 20 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Morrocoy National Park

Venezuela

Up to 20 m · Open Water

15 m27 °C

Sinkhole (freediving)

Dean's Blue Hole

Bahamas

Up to 202 m · Advanced / technical freediving

30 m26 °C

Reef/Submerged statue

Christ of the Abyss (Key Largo)

United States

Up to 8 m · Open Water / Snorkel

20 m26 °C

Reef/Underwater sculpture

Manchones Reef (Cancún)

Mexico

Up to 10 m · Open Water

15 m27 °C

Sandy bottom / Shark encounter

Bimini (great hammerhead)

Bahamas

Up to 12 m · Advanced (shark diving)

Great hammerhead · bull shark · Caribbean reef shark

Bocas del Toro

Panama

Up to 20 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Coastal muck diving

Blue Heron Bridge

United States

Up to 8 m · Open Water

5 m26 °C

Seahorses · octopus · frogfish

Xcalak

Mexico

Up to 30 m · Open Water

25 m27 °C

Groupers · lobsters · nurse sharks

Banco Chinchorro

Mexico

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

30 m27 °C

Nurse sharks · American crocodiles · sea turtles

Jupiter (shark drift diving)

United States

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m26 °C

Bull sharks · lemon sharks · goliath groupers

Open sandy bottom

Tiger Beach

Bahamas

Up to 10 m · Advanced (shark diving)

28 m25 °C

Tiger shark · lemon shark · nurse shark

Marine protected area

Contoy Island

Mexico

Up to 25 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m28 °C

Whale shark (the Afuera aggregation) · mobula rays

Veracruz (Veracruz Reef System)

Mexico

Up to 30 m · Open Water

15 m26 °C

Colonial wrecks · lobsters · reef fish

Molasses Reef

United States

Up to 15 m · Open Water

25 m26 °C

Turtles · vase sponges · snappers

OceanMarine protected area

Flower Garden Banks

United States

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

30 m24 °C

Almost 300 species of fish and more than 20 of coral; manta rays · sharks · turtles

OceanMarine protected area

Barrier reef/Blue Hole

Andros Barrier Reef

Bahamas

Up to 300 m · Advanced Open Water

30 m27 °C

The third largest barrier reef in the world · reef sharks · inland blue holes

OceanFreshwater

Nurse sharks · lobsters · reef fish

OceanMarine protected area

See dive site

Whale shark · manta rays

Ocean

See dive site

Caribbean reef sharks · nurse sharks

Ocean

See dive site

Reef fish colonising the underwater memorial

Ocean

See dive site

Bull sharks · groupers · turtles

OceanMarine protected area

See dive site

Grey reef · silky · nurse

OceanMarine protected area

See dive site

Nurse sharks · eagle rays · groupers

Ocean

See dive site

Lobsters · rays · reef fish

OceanIslands

See dive site

Reef fish · lobsters · corals

Ocean

See dive site

Limited wildlife; a world mecca of freediving

Ocean

See dive site

Brain coral formations · grunts · snapper

OceanMarine protected area

See dive site

Reef fish · sculptures of the Underwater Museum of Art

See dive site

OceanMarine protected area

See dive site

Sloths in the nearby mangroves · rays · octopus

OceanIslands

See dive site