
Diving and snorkelling
553 diving and snorkelling sites across 117 countries — from coral reefs to wrecks more than 300 metres deep.
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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.
Reef manta rays all year round · green and hawksbill turtle · leopard shark
Schooling hammerhead sharks · turtles · dolphins
Green and hawksbill turtles on almost every dive · eagle rays · reef sharks
More than 350 species of coral and close to 500 of fish; hammerheads · thresher shark · eagle rays
Resident whale shark · more than 35 endemic fish species · hard coral gardens
Reef manta rays all year round at Manta Point; sunfish (Mola alexandrini) in the cold season; turtles · reef sharks
Blacktip reef sharks · turtles · manta rays
Nudibranchs · seahorses · occasional reef sharks
Stingless jellyfish · reef sharks · hard corals
Reef manta ray · whale shark · occasional hammerheads and tiger shark
Manta rays at the cleaning stations of Koh Bon and Koh Tachai · turtles · leopard sharks
Reef sharks · hammerheads · thresher shark
Blacktip reef sharks · turtles · nudibranchs
Occasional hammerhead sharks · manta rays · turtles
Reef sharks · turtles · hard corals
Whale shark on passage
Reef sharks · turtles · pristine corals
Oceanic manta rays · reef sharks · shoals of trevally
Green turtles · blacktip reef sharks
Occasional whale sharks · turtles · groupers
Pelagic thresher shark · occasional manta and mobula rays · whitetip sharks at Gato Island
Millions of sardines in bait balls · turtles · whitetip reef sharks
Turtles · reef sharks · soft corals
Giant trevally of more than 20 kg · bigeye trevally · barracuda
Whitetip reef sharks · turtles · Napoleon wrasse
Schooling scalloped hammerhead sharks · sea snakes · mobula rays
Occasional whale shark and manta ray · schooling mackerel and barracuda · frogfish
Blacktip reef sharks · eagle rays
Walking sharks (Hemiscyllium) · spider crabs
Reef sharks · manta rays · occasional hammerhead shark
Leopard sharks · barracuda · giant groupers
Turtles · reef sharks · the nearby HMS Prince of Wales wreck
Reef sharks · macro life · pristine corals
Blacktip reef sharks · barracuda · turtles
Bull sharks · resident dolphins · manta rays
Manta ray · occasional whale shark · grey reef shark
Reef sharks · giant groupers · Napoleon wrasse
Green and hawksbill turtles · whitetip reef sharks
Turtles · reef sharks · soft corals
Olive sea snakes · very large turtles · groupers
Pygmy seahorses · reef sharks · muck diving
High coral diversity · reef sharks · manta rays
Whale shark · reef and oceanic manta rays at cleaning stations · seasonal humpback whale
Reef sharks · dolphins · turtles
Second World War aircraft and ship wrecks · reef sharks
Grey reef and silvertip sharks · hammerheads · pelagics
Whale shark · dolphins · turtles
Leopard sharks · blacktip reef sharks · barracuda
Reef sharks · manta rays · pristine corals
Reef sharks · turtles · barracuda
Blacktip reef sharks · turtles · parrotfish
Leopard sharks · turtles · seahorses
Turtles · reef sharks · manta rays
Second World War aircraft wrecks · reef sharks
Hammerhead sharks at dawn · grey reef sharks
Up to 200 reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) at once · the largest known aggregation in the world; whale shark
Reef manta rays for much of the year · turtles · leopard sharks
Marlin · tuna · oceanic sharks
Dugongs · whale sharks on passage · turtles
Whale sharks on passage · dolphins · manta rays
Green turtles · blacktip reef sharks
Reef sharks · Second World War wrecks · soft corals
Grey reef sharks · Napoleon wrasse
Nesting green turtles · dugongs · reef sharks
Turtles · whitetip reef sharks · dolphins
Leopard sharks · barracuda · light caves
Leopard sharks · manta rays · barracuda
Nurse sharks · giant lobsters · underwater caves
Whale shark · manta rays · grey reef sharks
Dugongs · manta rays · whale sharks
Leopard sharks · manta rays · occasional whale shark
Reef sharks · turtles · high coral biodiversity
Manta rays · grey reef sharks · Napoleon wrasse
Nesting green and hawksbill turtles · manta rays · reef sharks
Migrating hammerhead sharks · enigmatic rock formations
Oceanic whitetip shark (longimanus) · hammerheads · grey reef shark
Leopard sharks · turtles · occasional manta rays
Hammerhead · oceanic whitetip · thresher and grey reef sharks
Reef sharks · turtles · clownfish
Large potato cod · thoroughly used to divers · Napoleon wrasse
Nurse sharks · hawksbill turtles · manta rays
Feeding sharks · giant barracuda · large shoals
Groupers · lobsters · nurse sharks
Hard and soft corals · turtles · reef sharks
Reef sharks · giant groupers · turtles
Hammerheads · grey reef shark · oceanic whitetip
Nurse sharks · American crocodiles · sea turtles
Oceanic whitetip shark · grey reef shark · hammerheads
Dugongs · turtles · whitetip reef sharks
Bull sharks · lemon sharks · goliath groupers
Tiger shark · lemon shark · nurse shark
Occasional oceanic sharks · barracuda · groupers
Hammerhead sharks (best in spring) · grey reef sharks · barracuda
Barracuda · reef sharks · moray eels
Flying fish · occasional sharks · hard corals
Barracuda · trevally · batfish
Whale sharks on passage · turtles · manta rays
Dolphins · occasional whale sharks · dugongs
Grey reef sharks · barracuda · Napoleon wrasse
Whale shark (the Afuera aggregation) · mobula rays
Hammerhead sharks · tiger shark · silvertip shark
Hammerhead sharks · grey reef sharks · barracuda
Juvenile whale shark · dolphins
Turtles · reef sharks · hard corals
Almost 300 species of fish and more than 20 of coral; manta rays · sharks · turtles
Nurse sharks · lobsters · reef fish
The third largest barrier reef in the world · reef sharks · inland blue holes
Grey reef sharks · hammerhead sharks · barracuda tornadoes
Whitetip reef sharks · turtles · hard corals
Grey reef sharks in groups of 10 to 30 · huge Napoleon wrasse · barracuda in tornado formation
Whale shark · manta rays
Grey reef sharks · manta rays · soft corals
Reef manta rays at cleaning stations · reef sharks · rays
Caribbean reef sharks · nurse sharks
Turtles · reef sharks · lagoon fish
Soft corals · manta rays · reef sharks
Grey reef · silky · nurse
Grey reef sharks · occasional hammerhead sharks · barracuda
Turtles · Napoleon wrasse · reef sharks
Bull sharks · groupers · turtles
Multicoloured soft corals · reef sharks
Humpback whales · reef sharks · nudibranchs
Nurse sharks · eagle rays · groupers
Reef sharks · seasonal manta rays · soft corals
Manta rays · reef sharks · soft corals
Multicoloured soft corals · reef sharks
Reef sharks · turtles · hard corals
Turtles · reef sharks · the John Williams wreck
Nurse sharks · eagle rays · groupers
Reef fish · grey reef sharks
Reef fish · turtles · occasional sharks
Bull sharks (rare) · rays · turtles
Tiger sharks · bull sharks · grey reef sharks
Reef fish · occasional sharks
Reef sharks · turtles · karst formations
Barracuda · goliath groupers · occasional sharks
Sharks · turtles · occasional dolphins
Shoals of snapper · barracuda · amberjack
Whale shark · spinner dolphins
Parrotfish · lobsters · nurse sharks
Reef fish · turtles · occasional sharks
Reef sharks · groupers · lobsters
Nurse sharks · turtles · groupers
Whale sharks (on passage) · octopus · frogfish
Reef sharks · groupers · giant sponges
Resident spinner dolphin · turtles · reef and lemon sharks
Nurse sharks · turtles · groupers
Nurse sharks · lobsters · turtles
Nurse sharks · lobsters · turtles
Large shoals of barracuda · reef sharks
Reef sharks · groupers
the appeal is geological. Reef and nurse sharks at the entrance
Groupers · lobsters · occasional sharks
Occasional bull sharks · giant groupers · lobsters
A wall of grey reef sharks · resident bottlenose dolphins · great hammerhead (a threatened species studied by the Mokarran Protection Society)
Lobsters · reef sharks · turtles
Bull sharks · fishing boat wrecks · rays
Nesting loggerhead turtles · lemon sharks · rays
Reef fish · nurse sharks
Humpback whales on passage · occasional oceanic sharks
Groupers · occasional reef sharks · wrecks
Humpback whales on passage · sharks · dolphins
Barracuda · groupers · nurse sharks
More than three hundred grey reef sharks forming the "wall"; lemon · blacktip · whitetip
Hawksbill turtles · blacktip reef sharks · eagle rays
Lobsters · nurse sharks · numerous historic wrecks
Lagoon manta rays · blacktip reef sharks · lemon sharks
Reef sharks · manta rays · black corals
Reef sharks · giant trevally · manta rays
Sea lions · leopard sharks · rays
Enormous shoals of scalloped hammerhead · whale shark (June-November) · Galápagos shark
Schooling scalloped hammerheads · whale shark · Galápagos shark
Shoals of scalloped hammerhead · whitetip reef shark in enormous numbers · whale shark
Giant manta ray · bottlenose dolphin · hammerhead shark
Garibaldi · lobsters · occasional leopard sharks
Humpback whales on passage · manta rays · whitetip reef sharks