Explore the world underwater

Farne Islands (Longstone)

United Kingdom

Plymouth Sound (wrecks)

United Kingdom

Scapa Flow

United Kingdom

HMS Hermes wreck

Sri Lanka

Marsa Nakari

Egypt

Scandola Reserve (Corsica)

France

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m21 °C

Groupers · corals · lobsters

L'Escala (Costa Brava)

Spain

Up to 35 m · Open Water

20 m19 °C

Groupers · conger eels · the Reggio Messina wreck

Medes Islands

Spain

Up to 45 m · Advanced

20 m19 °C

Groupers · brown meagre · dentex

Cabo de Gata-Níjar

Spain

Up to 42 m · Open Water; the El Arna wreck requires an advanced level

Grouper · sea bream · snapper

Cavalleria (Menorca)

Spain

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m20 °C

Groupers · red corals · moray eels

Formentera (Es Freus)

Spain

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m22 °C

Posidonia oceanica meadows · barracuda · groupers

Balearic Islands (Cabrera)

Spain

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m20 °C

Groupers · eagle rays · corals

Cabrera (Cova Blava)

Spain

Up to 20 m · Open Water

25 m20 °C

Reef fish · lobsters · the blue light effect

Calanques of Marseille

France

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

15 m18 °C

Groupers · red corals · moray eels

Port-Cros National Park

France

Up to 40 m · Open Water

20 m19 °C

Groupers · corals · a marked underwater trail

Côte Bleue

France

Up to 35 m · Open Water

20 m19 °C

Groupers · corals · archaeological remains

Isles of Scilly

United Kingdom

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

15 m14 °C

Grey seals · lobsters · numerous historic shipwrecks

Lundy Island

United Kingdom

Up to 25 m · Advanced Open Water

10 m13 °C

Grey seals · lobsters · the first Marine Conservation Zone in the United Kingdom

Farne Islands

United Kingdom

Up to 20 m · Advanced Open Water

8 m12 °C

Curious grey seals · lobsters

Plymouth Sound (wrecks)

United Kingdom

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

10 m13 °C

Lobsters · conger eels · several artificial wrecks

Farne Islands (Longstone)

United Kingdom

Up to 25 m · Advanced Open Water

8 m12 °C

Grey seals · historic lighthouse wrecks

Scapa Flow

United Kingdom

Up to 45 m · Advanced / technical

10 m10 °C

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

St Abbs

United Kingdom

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

8 m10 °C

Lobsters · spider crabs · plumose anemones

Skellig Islands

Ireland

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

12 m13 °C

Grey seals · basking sharks on passage · gannets

Malin Head

Ireland

Up to 40 m · Advanced

15 m12 °C

Basking sharks on passage · lobsters · First World War wrecks

Portofino Marine Reserve

Italy

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

20 m19 °C

Groupers · corals · red gorgonians

Cristo degli Abissi (San Fruttuoso)

Italy

Up to 30 m · Open Water; also accessible by freediving

Grouper · lobster · passing pelagics; walls with coral and deep crevices

Zakynthos (loggerhead turtle)

Greece

Up to 30 m · Open Water

25 m23 °C

Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) · Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus)

Plemmirio Marine Reserve (Sicily)

Italy

Up to 35 m · Open Water

25 m22 °C

Corals · moray eels · lobsters

Tavolara (Sardinia)

Italy

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

30 m20 °C

Groupers · lobsters · red corals

Aegadian Islands (Favignana)

Italy

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m21 °C

Groupers · corals · Punic archaeological remains

Elafonisi (Crete)

Greece

Up to 25 m · Open Water

20 m23 °C

Reef fish · corals · lobsters

Ustica Island

Italy

Up to 20 m · Open Water

25 m22 °C

Dusky groupers · tuna · amberjack

Elba Island

Italy

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

20 m21 °C

Groupers · moray eels · the remains of historic wrecks

Isle of Capri (Blue Grotto)

Italy

Up to 15 m · Open Water / Snorkel

20 m20 °C

Reef fish · bioluminescent encrusting corals

Aeolian Islands (Panarea/Stromboli)

Italy

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m21 °C

Underwater fumaroles · groupers · thermal-water corals

El Hierro / La Restinga

Spain

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m21 °C

Angelsharks · occasional basking sharks · manta rays

Grotta di Nereo (Nereo Cave)

Italy

Up to 33 m · Advanced Open Water; the narrow tunnels require a cave qualification

Red coral (Corallium rubrum) · spiny lobsters · European lobsters

Tremiti Islands

Italy

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m21 °C

Groupers · red corals · lobsters

Kastellorizo (Blue Cave)

Greece

Up to 20 m · Open Water

25 m24 °C

Reef fish · lobsters

Halkidiki

Greece

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m22 °C

Groupers · moray eels · seahorses

Amalfi Coast

Italy

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

20 m20 °C

Groupers · octopus · submerged Roman remains

Ponza Island

Italy

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m20 °C

Groupers · lobsters · volcanic formations

Rhodes

Greece

Up to 35 m · Open Water

20 m23 °C

Groupers · octopus · the Italian Freighter wreck

Symi

Greece

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m23 °C

Groupers · lobsters · sponges (a historic sponge-diving tradition)

Aeolian Islands (Vulcano)

Italy

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

20 m22 °C

Underwater sulphur fumaroles · reef fish

Milos

Greece

Up to 35 m · Open Water

25 m23 °C

Seahorses · lobsters · volcanic formations

Amorgos (Le Grand Bleu wreck)

Greece

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m23 °C

Reef fish · moray eels

Kas

Türkiye

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m22 °C

Groupers · turtles · a submerged aircraft wreck

Corfu (Paleokastritsa)

Greece

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m23 °C

Groupers · octopus · lobsters

Fethiye

Türkiye

Up to 35 m · Open Water

20 m23 °C

Groupers · octopus · the Fethiye aircraft wreck

Marmaris

Türkiye

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m23 °C

Groupers · moray eels · merchant ship wrecks

Peristera wreck (Alonnisos Underwater Museum)

Greece

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water; only with an authorised guide

Mediterranean reef life; the park protects the Mediterranean monk seal

Santorini (volcanic caldera)

Greece

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

20 m22 °C

Reef fish · lava formations · an aircraft wreck

Bodrum (aircraft wreck)

Türkiye

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m23 °C

Reef fish · octopus · ancient amphora remains

Museo Atlántico (Lanzarote)

Spain

Up to 15 m · Open Water

15 m20 °C

Reef fish colonising the sculptures

Blue Cave of Biševo

Croatia

Up to 10 m · Open Water / Snorkel

20 m22 °C

Reef fish

Lastovo Island

Croatia

Up to 35 m · Open Water

25 m21 °C

Spiny lobsters · European lobsters · octopus

Mljet Island

Croatia

Up to 35 m · Open Water

25 m21 °C

Groupers · corals · two inland salt lakes

Kornati Islands

Croatia

Up to 35 m · Open Water

25 m21 °C

Posidonia oceanica meadows · bottlenose dolphin · loggerhead turtle

Vis Island (wrecks)

Croatia

Up to 50 m · Advanced

30 m22 °C

Reef fish · encrusting corals

Azores (Princess Alice Bank)

Portugal

Up to 40 m · Advanced, drift diving

30 m23 °C

Manta rays · hammerhead sharks · blue sharks

Garajau Marine Reserve (Madeira)

Portugal

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m20 °C

Groupers · eagle rays · occasional turtles

Dubrovnik

Croatia

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m21 °C

Groupers · lobsters · minor wrecks

Croatia (Sušac Island)

Croatia

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m21 °C

Groupers · lobsters · corals

Cirkewwa (Malta)

Malta

Up to 35 m · Open Water

30 m20 °C

Reef fish · two patrol boat wrecks

Malta (Blue Hole Gozo / Um El Faroud)

Malta

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

35 m20 °C

Groupers · moray eels · octopus

Comino (Blue Lagoon and Caves)

Malta

Up to 20 m · Open Water

30 m20 °C

Reef fish · the turquoise light effect

Gozo (Cathedral Cave/Reqqa Point)

Malta

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

30 m20 °C

Groupers · moray eels · encrusting corals

Zenobia Wreck

Cyprus

Up to 42 m · Technical

25 m20 °C

Large groupers · barracuda · moray eels

Paphos (wrecks)

Cyprus

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m21 °C

Reef fish · moray eels · the Achilleas tug wreck

Cape Greco

Cyprus

Up to 30 m · Open Water

25 m22 °C

Reef fish · moray eels · the nearby Zenobia wreck

Ksamil

Albania

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m23 °C

Groupers · octopus · corals

Bay of Kotor

Montenegro

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

15 m20 °C

Groupers · moray eels · Second World War wrecks

Piran

Slovenia

Up to 30 m · Open Water

15 m19 °C

Reef fish · moray eels · the Baron Gautsch wreck

Lofoten (orcas)

Norway

Up to 25 m · Advanced / drysuit

15 m6 °C

Orcas · humpback whales · herring

Trondheimsfjord (cold-water corals)

Norway

Up to 80 m · Technical

15 m7 °C

Cold-water Lophelia corals · lobsters · cod

Saltstraumen

Norway

Up to 30 m · Technical / highly advanced

15 m8 °C

Cod · lobsters · giant anemones

Strýtan (hydrothermal chimney)

Iceland

Up to 70 m · Advanced Open Water (drysuit)

20 m5 °C

Limited wildlife; a unique mineral tufa chimney

Komodo National Park

Indonesia

Up to 40 m · Advanced, strong currents

22 m26 °C

Reef manta rays all year round · grey reef sharks · thresher shark

Ningaloo Reef

Australia

Up to 25 m · Open Water

20 m25 °C

Between 300 and 500 whale sharks a year; giant manta rays · turtles · whales; more than 300 species of coral

Raja Ampat

Indonesia

Up to 40 m · Open Water

25 m29 °C

Reef and oceanic manta rays · tasselled wobbegongs · endemic walking sharks (Hemiscyllium)

Alor Archipelago

Indonesia

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

20 m26 °C

Soft corals · occasional hammerhead sharks · macro life

Derawan Islands (Kakaban / Sangalaki)

Indonesia

Up to 30 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Reef manta rays all year round · green and hawksbill turtle · leopard shark

Wakatobi National Park

Indonesia

Up to 40 m · Open Water

30 m28 °C

Close to 950 species of fish and some 400 of coral; mobula rays · short-finned pilot whales · six species of dolphin

Misool (Boo Windows and Magic Mountain)

Indonesia

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

Reef and oceanic manta rays · reef sharks · wobbegongs

Layang Layang Atoll

Malaysia

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

30 m28 °C

Schooling hammerhead sharks · turtles · dolphins

Panglao (Bohol)

Philippines

Up to 35 m · Open Water

25 m28 °C

Tarsier (on land) · turtles · sea snakes

Solor / Lembata (blue whales)

Indonesia

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

20 m26 °C

Migrating blue whales · sperm whales

Bunaken Marine Park

Indonesia

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

30 m28 °C

Green and hawksbill turtles on almost every dive · eagle rays · reef sharks

Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park

Philippines

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

30 m27 °C

More than 350 species of coral and close to 500 of fish; hammerheads · thresher shark · eagle rays

Cenderawasih Bay (whale shark)

Indonesia

Up to 20 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Resident whale shark · more than 35 endemic fish species · hard coral gardens

Triton Bay

Indonesia

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

Whale sharks under the fishing platforms · "walking" sharks (Hemiscyllium) on night dives · dolphins

Nusa Penida (Manta Point / Crystal Bay)

Indonesia

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

20 m22 °C

Reef manta rays all year round at Manta Point; sunfish (Mola alexandrini) in the cold season; turtles · reef sharks

Andaman Islands (Havelock)

India

Up to 35 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Blacktip reef sharks · turtles · manta rays

Puerto Galera

Philippines

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Nudibranchs · seahorses · occasional reef sharks

Sabang Bay

Philippines

Up to 30 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Nudibranchs · seahorses · mimic octopus

Togean Islands

Indonesia

Up to 30 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Stingless jellyfish · reef sharks · hard corals

Padang Bai (Blue Lagoon)

Indonesia

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m27 °C

Frogfish · rhinopias · mimic and blue-ringed octopus

Ticao Pass (manta rays)

Philippines

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

15 m27 °C

Reef manta ray · whale shark · occasional hammerheads and tiger shark

Similan Islands

Thailand

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

20 m28 °C

Manta rays at the cleaning stations of Koh Bon and Koh Tachai · turtles · leopard sharks

Apo Reef Natural Park

Philippines

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

30 m27 °C

Reef sharks · hammerheads · thresher shark

Riau Islands (Bintan)

Indonesia

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Reef fish · Second World War wrecks

USAT Liberty (Tulamben)

Indonesia

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

More than 400 species of fish; bumphead parrotfish at dawn · trevally · barracuda

Anilao

Philippines

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m27 °C

Nudibranchs in enormous variety · frogfish · octopus

Tioman Island

Malaysia

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Blacktip reef sharks · turtles · nudibranchs

Kalimantan (Maratua)

Indonesia

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m28 °C

Occasional hammerhead sharks · manta rays · turtles

Anambas Islands

Indonesia

Up to 25 m · Open Water

25 m28 °C

Turtles · Napoleon wrasse · soft corals

Batam Islands

Indonesia

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Reef fish · sunken commercial wrecks

Nusa Lembongan

Indonesia

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

15 m22 °C

Sunfish (mola mola) · manta rays · turtles

Karimunjawa

Indonesia

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Reef sharks · turtles · hard corals

Ticao Island (Donsol, whale shark)

Philippines

Up to 20 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Whale shark on passage

Kepulauan Seribu

Indonesia

Up to 20 m · Open Water

8 m29 °C

Reef fish · recovering corals

Widi Islands

Indonesia

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

20 m28 °C

Reef sharks · turtles · pristine corals

Kri Island (Raja Ampat)

Indonesia

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Giant manta rays · tasselled wobbegongs beneath the table corals · Denise's pygmy seahorse (endemic to Raja Ampat)

Ambon (Twilight Zone)

Indonesia

Up to 25 m · Open Water

10 m28 °C

Psychedelic frogfish (endemic to Ambon) · Ambon scorpionfish · rhinopias

Blue Magic (Raja Ampat)

Indonesia

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

20 m28 °C

Oceanic manta rays · reef sharks · shoals of trevally

Manta Ridge (Arborek)

Indonesia

Up to 20 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Resident reef manta rays · cleaner wrasse

Surin Islands

Thailand

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

More than 260 species of reef fish · 68 of coral · 48 of nudibranch and 31 of shrimp recorded in the park

Amed and Jemeluk Bay

Indonesia

Up to 30 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Clownfish · seahorses · mimic octopus

Mabul Island

Malaysia

Up to 20 m · Open Water

15 m29 °C

Pygmy seahorses · frogfish · mimic octopus

Perhentian Islands

Malaysia

Up to 20 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Green turtles · blacktip reef sharks

Koh Tao

Thailand

Up to 30 m · Open Water

15 m29 °C

Occasional whale sharks · turtles · groupers

Malapascua (thresher shark)

Philippines

Up to 30 m · Advanced

20 m27 °C

Pelagic thresher shark · occasional manta and mobula rays · whitetip sharks at Gato Island

Moalboal (Sardine Run)

Philippines

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Millions of sardines in bait balls · turtles · whitetip reef sharks

Con Dao Islands

Vietnam

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Nesting green turtles · occasional dugongs

Redang Island

Malaysia

Up to 20 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Green turtles · clownfish · soft corals

Batanes Islands

Philippines

Up to 25 m · Advanced Open Water

15 m24 °C

Subtropical fish · lobsters

Con Son Island (North Con Dao)

Vietnam

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m27 °C

Occasional dugongs · nesting turtles · hard corals

Siquijor

Philippines

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Turtles · reef sharks · soft corals

Bunutan

Indonesia

Up to 30 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Clownfish · seahorses · mimic octopus

Bangka Belitung

Indonesia

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Reef fish · octopus · granite formations

Cape Kri

Indonesia

Up to 35 m · Open Water

20 m29 °C

Giant trevally of more than 20 kg · bigeye trevally · barracuda

Sohoton Cove

Philippines

Up to 15 m · Open Water

15 m27 °C

Reef fish · karst formations

Sangalaki Islands

Indonesia

Up to 25 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Green turtles nesting en masse · manta rays

Apo Island

Philippines

Up to 25 m · Open Water

25 m27 °C

Green turtles well used to divers · shoals of reef fish · dense hard coral

Coron Bay (wrecks)

Philippines

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

15 m28 °C

Coral and invertebrates over the whole hull · mandarinfish · abundant macro life

Verde Island Passage

Philippines

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

20 m27 °C

More than 300 species of coral recorded; dense shoals of fish · passing pelagics · pygmy seahorses

Lembeh Strait

Indonesia

Up to 25 m · Open Water

10 m28 °C

Mimic octopus · blue-ringed octopus · hairy frogfish