
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.
Grey seals · historic lighthouse wrecks
Lobsters · spider crabs · plumose anemones
Grey seals · basking sharks on passage · gannets
Basking sharks on passage · lobsters · First World War wrecks
Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) · Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus)
Corals · moray eels · lobsters
Reef fish · corals · lobsters
Groupers · moray eels · the remains of historic wrecks
Groupers · moray eels · seahorses
Groupers · octopus · submerged Roman remains
Groupers · lobsters · volcanic formations
Groupers · octopus · the Italian Freighter wreck
Groupers · lobsters · sponges (a historic sponge-diving tradition)
Groupers · octopus · lobsters
Groupers · moray eels · merchant ship wrecks
Reef fish · octopus · ancient amphora remains
Reef fish colonising the sculptures
Groupers · eagle rays · occasional turtles
Groupers · lobsters · minor wrecks
Reef fish · two patrol boat wrecks
Groupers · moray eels · encrusting corals
Groupers · octopus · corals
Reef fish · moray eels · the Baron Gautsch wreck
Cold-water Lophelia corals · lobsters · cod
Reef manta rays all year round · grey reef sharks · thresher shark
Between 300 and 500 whale sharks a year; giant manta rays · turtles · whales; more than 300 species of coral
Reef and oceanic manta rays · tasselled wobbegongs · endemic walking sharks (Hemiscyllium)
Reef manta rays all year round · green and hawksbill turtle · leopard shark
Close to 950 species of fish and some 400 of coral; mobula rays · short-finned pilot whales · six species of dolphin
Tarsier (on land) · turtles · sea snakes
More than 350 species of coral and close to 500 of fish; hammerheads · thresher shark · eagle rays
Blacktip reef sharks · turtles · manta rays
Nudibranchs · seahorses · occasional reef sharks
Stingless jellyfish · reef sharks · hard corals
Frogfish · rhinopias · mimic and blue-ringed octopus
Reef sharks · hammerheads · thresher shark
Reef fish · Second World War wrecks
Nudibranchs in enormous variety · frogfish · octopus
Blacktip reef sharks · turtles · nudibranchs
Occasional hammerhead sharks · manta rays · turtles
Reef fish · sunken commercial wrecks
Sunfish (mola mola) · manta rays · turtles
Reef sharks · turtles · hard corals
Reef fish · recovering corals
Reef sharks · turtles · pristine corals
Giant manta rays · tasselled wobbegongs beneath the table corals · Denise's pygmy seahorse (endemic to Raja Ampat)
More than 260 species of reef fish · 68 of coral · 48 of nudibranch and 31 of shrimp recorded in the park
Clownfish · seahorses · mimic octopus
Pygmy seahorses · frogfish · mimic octopus
Green turtles · blacktip reef sharks
Occasional whale sharks · turtles · groupers
Millions of sardines in bait balls · turtles · whitetip reef sharks
Nesting green turtles · occasional dugongs
Green turtles · clownfish · soft corals
Subtropical fish · lobsters
Occasional dugongs · nesting turtles · hard corals
Turtles · reef sharks · soft corals
Clownfish · seahorses · mimic octopus
Reef fish · octopus · granite formations
Giant trevally of more than 20 kg · bigeye trevally · barracuda
Green turtles nesting en masse · manta rays
Green turtles well used to divers · shoals of reef fish · dense hard coral
More than 300 species of coral recorded; dense shoals of fish · passing pelagics · pygmy seahorses
Sperm whales and humpback whales · dolphins at Futami (Chichijima) · more than 190 threatened bird species across the archipelago as a whole
Blacktip reef sharks · eagle rays
Walking sharks (Hemiscyllium) · spider crabs
Reef sharks · manta rays · occasional hammerhead shark
Turtles · reef sharks · the nearby HMS Prince of Wales wreck
Banggai cardinalfish (an endangered endemic species)
Bull sharks · resident dolphins · manta rays
Seahorses · turtles · hard corals
Green and hawksbill turtles · whitetip reef sharks
Reef fish · turtles · soft corals
Reef fish · the Kokusai Maru wreck
Turtles · reef fish · freshwater caves nearby
Reef fish · turtles · hard corals
Turtles · reef fish · fruit bats on a nearby island
Turtles · reef fish · hard corals
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 fish · a small wreck
Second World War aircraft and ship wrecks · reef sharks
Whale shark · dolphins · turtles