
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.
Manta rays at the cleaning stations of Koh Bon and Koh Tachai · turtles · leopard sharks
Reef fish · Second World War wrecks
Turtles · Napoleon wrasse · soft corals
Reef sharks · turtles · hard corals
Reef fish · recovering corals
Reef sharks · turtles · pristine corals
Green turtles · blacktip reef sharks
Nesting green turtles · occasional dugongs
Green turtles · clownfish · soft corals
Subtropical fish · lobsters
Occasional dugongs · nesting turtles · hard corals
Green turtles nesting en masse · manta rays
Sperm whales and humpback whales · dolphins at Futami (Chichijima) · more than 190 threatened bird species across the archipelago as a whole
Schooling scalloped hammerhead sharks · sea snakes · mobula rays
Turtles · reef fish · freshwater caves nearby
Turtles · reef fish · hard corals
Reef sharks · dolphins · turtles
Resident manta rays · turtles
Leopard sharks · blacktip reef sharks · barracuda
Dugongs · whale sharks on passage · turtles
Reef sharks · Second World War wrecks · soft corals
Nesting green turtles · dugongs · reef sharks
Nurse sharks · giant lobsters · underwater caves
Nurse sharks · hawksbill turtles · manta rays
Whale sharks on passage · turtles · manta rays
Dolphins · occasional whale sharks · dugongs
Turtles · clownfish · soft corals
Reef fish · turtles · hard corals
Turtles · Napoleon wrasse · reef sharks
Lobsters · rays · reef fish
Manta rays · reef sharks · soft corals
Sloths in the nearby mangroves · rays · octopus
Lobsters · turtles · parrotfish
Reef fish · lobsters · brain corals
Resident spinner dolphin · turtles · reef and lemon sharks
Giant manta ray · bottlenose dolphin · hammerhead shark
Marine hippopotamuses · green turtles · dolphins
Juan Fernández fur seals · endemic lobsters