Skip to content
WAnimals
  • Map
  • Species
  • Parks
  • Diving
Log inCreate account
WAnimals

The guide for travellers and animal lovers: discover, plan and share your wild adventures around the world.

Discover wildlife

  • Species
  • Ecosystems
  • Glossary
  • Tags

Explore places

  • Map
  • Countries
  • Parks
  • Diving

Plan experiences

  • Guides

Learn

  • Blog

Resources

  • About us
  • How we build our profiles
  • Help centre
  • Contact
  • Install the app

Follow us

Account

  • Log in
  • Create account

© 2026 WAnimals. All rights reserved.

Terms of servicePrivacyCookiesLegal notice
MapSpeciesParksDiving

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

Or start here

Filter
Continent
Country
Type of dive
Level
Current
Access
Recommended certification
Designation
Tag
Depth (m)20 m – 202 m
Visibility (m)8 m – 40 m
Water temperature (°C)-1 °C – 29 °C

30 dive sites found

ListListMapMapMixedMixed

Select up to 3 to compare

Loading map…
Wreck

Scapa Flow

United Kingdom

111 species

Up to 45 m · Advanced / technical

10 m10 °C

Wreck (deep hold section)

Zenobia Wreck

Cyprus

91 species

Up to 42 m · Technical

25 m20 °C

Cold-water coral reef

Trondheimsfjord (cold-water corals)

Norway

84 species

Up to 80 m · Technical

15 m7 °C

Extreme tidal current

Saltstraumen

Norway

84 species

Up to 30 m · Technical / highly advanced

15 m8 °C

Deep wreck (aircraft carrier)

HMS Hermes wreck

Sri Lanka

50 species

Up to 55 m · Technical (mandatory decompression)

Large tuna · big grouper · trevally; the absence of fishing and of diving pressure has left an exceptional density of fish

Dive in and explore
Sharks
Hammerhead sharks
Manta rays
Turtles
Reefs
Wrecks
Caves and cenotes
Walls
Large pelagics
Snorkelling-friendly
Beginners
Technical diving

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.

Plumose anemones · conger eels · scallops; typical cold-water fauna of the North Atlantic

Marine protected area
See dive site

Large groupers · barracuda · moray eels

OceanPolarMarine protected area
See dive site

Cold-water Lophelia corals · lobsters · cod

Ocean
See dive site

Cod · lobsters · giant anemones

See dive site
Marine protected area
See dive site
Wall/Shipwreck

Zabargad Island

Egypt

50 species

Up to 50 m · Advanced, technical

30 m27 °C

Oceanic whitetip shark · grey reef shark · hammerheads

OceanMarine protected area
See dive site
Deep Second World War wreck

Rosalie Möller wreck

Egypt

46 species

Up to 50 m · Advanced / technical

Clouds of glassfish · grouper · trevally

See dive site
Sinkhole (freediving)

Dean's Blue Hole

Bahamas

44 species

Up to 202 m · Advanced / technical freediving

30 m26 °C

Limited wildlife; a world mecca of freediving

Ocean
See dive site
UNESCO
Deep wreck

Bikini Atoll

Marshall Islands

43 species

Up to 55 m · Technical (Trimix)

30 m29 °C

Reef fish · grey reef sharks

World Heritage
See dive site
Wreck

SS President Coolidge

Vanuatu

43 species

Up to 70 m · Advanced / technical

25 m27 °C

Reef fish · turtles · occasional sharks

Ocean
See dive site
Wreck (aircraft carrier)

USS Oriskany

United States

43 species

Up to 65 m · Advanced / technical

25 m25 °C

Barracuda · goliath groupers · occasional sharks

Ocean
See dive site
Deep wreck

Andrea Doria

United States

42 species

Up to 70 m · Technical (Trimix)

10 m10 °C

Groupers · cold-water lobsters

Ocean
See dive site
Wreck (the only site spanning two wars)

SMS Cormoran (Guam)

Guam

41 species

Up to 37 m · Advanced Open Water / technical

25 m28 °C

Reef fish · encrusting corals

Ocean
See dive site
Wreck

Fujikawa Maru (Chuuk)

Micronesia

41 species

Up to 34 m · Advanced Open Water / technical

20 m29 °C

Coral and sea fans on the superstructure · lionfish · moray eels

OceanMarine protected area
See dive site
Wreck

Bianca C Wreck

Grenada

33 species

Up to 50 m · Advanced / technical

20 m27 °C

Barracuda · groupers · nurse sharks

Ocean
See dive site
Cold-water wreck

Gdańsk (Baltic wrecks)

Poland

32 species

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water / technical

8 m10 °C

Cold-water fish · numerous well-preserved war wrecks

Ocean
See dive site
Ice/Polar

Svalbard (ice diving)

Norway

26 species

Up to 20 m · Technical (Ice Diving)

25 m-1 °C

Ringed seals · occasional walruses

OceanPolar
See dive site
Historic wreck (18th century)

Vrouw Maria wreck

Finland

20 species

Up to 41 m · Technical (restricted access)

8 m6 °C

Cold-water fish · the historic cargo still intact

See dive site
Subantarctic/Kelp

South Georgia

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

19 species

Up to 25 m · Advanced / technical (polar water)

20 m2 °C

Weddell seals · king penguins · giant kelp

Polar
See dive site
Polar volcanic

Deception Island

Antarctica

15 species

Up to 20 m · Advanced / technical (polar water)

20 m0 °C

Antarctic benthic fauna; fur seals and penguins at the surface

See dive site
Polar fjord

Paradise Harbour

Antarctica

14 species

Up to 25 m · Advanced / technical (polar water)

25 m-1 °C

Leopard seals · humpback whales · gentoo penguins

See dive site
Historic wreck (Civil War)

USS Monitor (Graveyard of the Atlantic)

United States

10 species

Up to 70 m · Technical (authorised research only)

15 m20 °C

Bottom fish · cold-water lobsters

OceanMarine protected area
See dive site
Cave (one of the longest in the world)

Ox Bel Ha System

Mexico

2 species

Up to 25 m · Technical (Cave Diver)

30 m25 °C

Stygobitic fauna adapted to caves; pumas · jaguars and deer have been recorded at the surface cenotes

See dive site
Cenote/Halocline

Cenote Angelita

Mexico

1 species

Up to 60 m · Advanced / technical

40 m24 °C

Limited wildlife

Freshwater
See dive site
Show 6 more