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Diving and snorkelling

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553 diving and snorkelling sites across 117 countries — from coral reefs to wrecks more than 300 metres deep.

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Water temperature (°C)7 °C – 29 °C

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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.

Cold rocky reef/Wreck

Farne Islands (Longstone)

United Kingdom

112 species

Up to 25 m · Advanced Open Water

8 m12 °C

Cold rocky reef

St Abbs

United Kingdom

111 species

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

8 m10 °C

UNESCO
Atlantic rocky reef

Skellig Islands

Ireland

111 species

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

12 m

Wreck/Rocky reef

Malin Head

Ireland

109 species

Up to 40 m · Advanced

15 m12 °C

Reef/Reserve

Zakynthos (loggerhead turtle)

Greece

104 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

25 m23 °C

Cave/Reef

Plemmirio Marine Reserve (Sicily)

Italy

104 species

Up to 35 m · Open Water

25 m22 °C

Rocky reef/Pink beach

Elafonisi (Crete)

Greece

104 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

20 m23 °C

Wreck/Rocky reef

Elba Island

Italy

103 species

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

20 m21 °C

Rocky reef/Cave

Halkidiki

Greece

102 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m22 °C

UNESCO
Rocky reef/Wreck

Amalfi Coast

Italy

102 species

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

20 m

Cave/Rocky reef

Ponza Island

Italy

102 species

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m20 °C

Rocky reef/Wreck

Rhodes

Greece

102 species

Up to 35 m · Open Water

20 m23 °C

Cave/Rocky reef

Symi

Greece

102 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m23 °C

Cave/Rocky reef

Corfu (Paleokastritsa)

Greece

101 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m23 °C

Rocky reef/Wreck

Marmaris

Türkiye

101 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m23 °C

Wreck/Rocky reef

Bodrum (aircraft wreck)

Türkiye

99 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m23 °C

Underwater museum/Artificial reef

Museo Atlántico (Lanzarote)

Spain

97 species

Up to 15 m · Open Water

15 m20 °C

Volcanic reef

Garajau Marine Reserve (Madeira)

Portugal

93 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m20 °C

UNESCO
Wreck/Rocky reef

Dubrovnik

Croatia

93 species

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m

Wreck/Reef

Cirkewwa (Malta)

Malta

92 species

Up to 35 m · Open Water

30 m20 °C

Cave/Rocky reef

Gozo (Cathedral Cave/Reqqa Point)

Malta

92 species

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

30 m20 °C

Rocky reef/Cave

Ksamil

Albania

89 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m23 °C

Rocky reef/Wreck

Piran

Slovenia

88 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

15 m19 °C

Cold-water coral reef

Trondheimsfjord (cold-water corals)

Norway

84 species

Up to 80 m · Technical

15 m7 °C

UNESCO
Reef/Pelagic

Komodo National Park

Indonesia

69 species

Up to 40 m · Advanced, strong currents

22 m

UNESCO
Coastal reef

Ningaloo Reef

Australia

68 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

20 m

Reef/Wall

Raja Ampat

Indonesia

65 species

Up to 40 m · Open Water

25 m29 °C

Jellyfish lake/Reef

Derawan Islands (Kakaban / Sangalaki)

Indonesia

63 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Reef/Wall

Wakatobi National Park

Indonesia

63 species

Up to 40 m · Open Water

30 m28 °C

Pinnacle / Soft coral reef

Misool (Boo Windows and Magic Mountain)

Indonesia

63 species

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

Reef and oceanic manta rays · reef sharks · wobbegongs

Reef/Wall

Panglao (Bohol)

Philippines

63 species

Up to 35 m · Open Water

25 m28 °C

UNESCO
Reef/Wall

Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park

Philippines

63 species

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

30 m

Soft coral reef / Coastal pelagic

Triton Bay

Indonesia

62 species

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

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

Reef/Wall

Andaman Islands (Havelock)

India

62 species

Up to 35 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Reef/Muck diving

Puerto Galera

Philippines

62 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Reef/Atoll

Togean Islands

Indonesia

62 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Bay reef

Padang Bai (Blue Lagoon)

Indonesia

62 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m27 °C

Reef/Wall

Apo Reef Natural Park

Philippines

61 species

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

30 m27 °C

Reef/Wreck

Riau Islands (Bintan)

Indonesia

61 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Macro photography/Reef

Anilao

Philippines

61 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m27 °C

Reef/Wreck

Tioman Island

Malaysia

61 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Wall/Reef

Kalimantan (Maratua)

Indonesia

61 species

Up to 40 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m28 °C

Reef/Wreck

Batam Islands

Indonesia

61 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Reef/Pelagic

Nusa Lembongan

Indonesia

61 species

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

15 m22 °C

Coral reef

Karimunjawa

Indonesia

61 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Urban reef

Kepulauan Seribu

Indonesia

61 species

Up to 20 m · Open Water

8 m29 °C

Remote reef

Widi Islands

Indonesia

61 species

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

20 m28 °C

Bommie reef

Kri Island (Raja Ampat)

Indonesia

60 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Hard coral reef

Surin Islands

Thailand

60 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Sloping reef

Amed and Jemeluk Bay

Indonesia

60 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Muck diving/Reef

Mabul Island

Malaysia

60 species

Up to 20 m · Open Water

15 m29 °C

Shallow reef

Perhentian Islands

Malaysia

60 species

Up to 20 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Reef/Pinnacle

Koh Tao

Thailand

60 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

15 m29 °C

Reef/Wall

Moalboal (Sardine Run)

Philippines

60 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Coral reef

Con Dao Islands

Vietnam

60 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Coral reef

Redang Island

Malaysia

60 species

Up to 20 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Cold rocky reef

Batanes Islands

Philippines

60 species

Up to 25 m · Advanced Open Water

15 m24 °C

Reef/Reserve

Con Son Island (North Con Dao)

Vietnam

60 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m27 °C

Reef/Wall

Siquijor

Philippines

60 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Sloping reef

Bunutan

Indonesia

60 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Granite rocky reef

Bangka Belitung

Indonesia

60 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Sloping reef

Cape Kri

Indonesia

60 species

Up to 35 m · Open Water

20 m29 °C

Turtle nesting reef

Sangalaki Islands

Indonesia

60 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Reef/Reserve

Apo Island

Philippines

59 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

25 m27 °C

Reef/Current

Verde Island Passage

Philippines

59 species

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

20 m27 °C

UNESCO
Pelagic/Reef

Ogasawara Islands

Japan

59 species

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m

Reef/Pelagic

Morotai (shark diving)

Indonesia

59 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Muck diving/Reef

Halmahera (walking sharks)

Indonesia

59 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Volcanic reef

Pulau Weh

Indonesia

59 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Reef/Wreck

Tenggol Island

Malaysia

59 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Reef/Endemic species

Banggai Islands

Indonesia

59 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Reef/Pelagic

Ponta do Ouro

Mozambique

59 species

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

15 m24 °C

Coral reef

Phu Quoc

Vietnam

59 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Reef/Wreck

Gili Trawangan

Indonesia

58 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Volcanic/Reef

Camiguin Island

Philippines

58 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Reef/Wreck

Cebu (Mactan Island)

Philippines

58 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Reef/Cave

Camotes Islands

Philippines

58 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

20 m28 °C

Coral reef

Bali (Nusa Dua)

Indonesia

58 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m27 °C

Reef of the 17 islands

Riung Islands (Flores)

Indonesia

58 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

20 m27 °C

UNESCO
Coral reef

Whitsunday Islands (Chalkies Beach)

Australia

57 species

Up to 20 m · Open Water

15 m

Fjord/Reef

Tufi Fjords

Papua New Guinea

57 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

15 m28 °C

Reef/Pinnacle

Kimbe Bay

Papua New Guinea

57 species

Up to 35 m · Open Water

25 m28 °C

Reef/Pelagic

Tofo Beach

Mozambique

57 species

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

15 m26 °C

Rocky reef/Wreck

Grande Island (Goa)

India

57 species

Up to 20 m · Open Water

8 m27 °C

Reef/War wreck

Madang

Papua New Guinea

57 species

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

20 m28 °C

Pelagic/Reef

Mafia Island (whale shark)

Tanzania

56 species

Up to 25 m · Open Water

15 m27 °C

Atlantic rocky reef

Cíes Islands

Spain

142 species

Up to 30 m · Open Water

15 m16 °C

Octopus · conger eels · lobsters

OceanMarine protected area
See dive site
Rocky reef/Cave

Berlengas Islands

Portugal

138 species

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

15 m18 °C

Groupers · conger eels · lobsters

Ocean
See dive site
Atlantic rocky reef

Cliff Coast (Cape St Vincent)

Portugal

137 species

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

12 m17 °C

Groupers · conger eels · lobsters

See dive site
Reef/Reserve

Chafarinas Islands

Spain

123 species

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

20 m19 °C

Occasional monk seals · groupers · corals

Marine protected area
See dive site
Rocky reef/Wreck

L'Escala (Costa Brava)

Spain

121 species

Up to 35 m · Open Water

20 m19 °C

Groupers · conger eels · the Reggio Messina wreck

Ocean
See dive site
Rocky reef/Cave

Cavalleria (Menorca)

Spain

120 species

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

25 m20 °C

Groupers · red corals · moray eels

Marine protected area
See dive site
Wreck/Rocky reef

Isles of Scilly

United Kingdom

114 species

Up to 35 m · Advanced Open Water

15 m14 °C

Grey seals · lobsters · numerous historic shipwrecks

OceanIslands
See dive site
Rocky reef/Reserve

Lundy Island

United Kingdom

114 species

Up to 25 m · Advanced Open Water

10 m13 °C

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

Ocean
See dive site
Cold rocky reef

Farne Islands

United Kingdom

112 species

Up to 20 m · Advanced Open Water

8 m12 °C

Curious grey seals · lobsters

Ocean
See dive site
Wreck/Rocky reef

Plymouth Sound (wrecks)

United Kingdom

112 species

Up to 30 m · Advanced Open Water

10 m13 °C

Lobsters · conger eels · several artificial wrecks

Ocean
See dive site
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Grey seals · historic lighthouse wrecks

Islands
See dive site

Lobsters · spider crabs · plumose anemones

Ocean
See dive site
13 °C

Grey seals · basking sharks on passage · gannets

OceanWorld Heritage
See dive site

Basking sharks on passage · lobsters · First World War wrecks

Ocean
See dive site

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

Marine protected area
See dive site

Corals · moray eels · lobsters

OceanMarine protected area
See dive site

Reef fish · corals · lobsters

See dive site

Groupers · moray eels · the remains of historic wrecks

OceanIslands
See dive site

Groupers · moray eels · seahorses

Ocean
See dive site
20 °C

Groupers · octopus · submerged Roman remains

World Heritage
See dive site

Groupers · lobsters · volcanic formations

See dive site

Groupers · octopus · the Italian Freighter wreck

Ocean
See dive site

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

Ocean
See dive site

Groupers · octopus · lobsters

See dive site

Groupers · moray eels · merchant ship wrecks

Ocean
See dive site

Reef fish · octopus · ancient amphora remains

Ocean
See dive site

Reef fish colonising the sculptures

Ocean
See dive site

Groupers · eagle rays · occasional turtles

Ocean
See dive site
21 °C

Groupers · lobsters · minor wrecks

OceanWorld Heritage
See dive site

Reef fish · two patrol boat wrecks

OceanMarine protected area
See dive site

Groupers · moray eels · encrusting corals

Ocean
See dive site

Groupers · octopus · corals

Ocean
See dive site

Reef fish · moray eels · the Baron Gautsch wreck

Ocean
See dive site

Cold-water Lophelia corals · lobsters · cod

Ocean
See dive site
26 °C

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

World HeritageMarine protected area
See dive site
25 °C

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

OceanWorld HeritageMarine protected area
See dive site

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

OceanMarine protected area
See dive site

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

FreshwaterIslands
See dive site

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

OceanMarine protected area
See dive site
OceanMarine protected area
See dive site

Tarsier (on land) · turtles · sea snakes

Ocean
See dive site
27 °C

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

OceanWorld HeritageMarine protected area
See dive site
See dive site

Blacktip reef sharks · turtles · manta rays

OceanIslands
See dive site

Nudibranchs · seahorses · occasional reef sharks

Ocean
See dive site

Stingless jellyfish · reef sharks · hard corals

OceanIslands
See dive site

Frogfish · rhinopias · mimic and blue-ringed octopus

Ocean
See dive site

Reef sharks · hammerheads · thresher shark

OceanMarine protected area
See dive site

Reef fish · Second World War wrecks

OceanIslands
See dive site

Nudibranchs in enormous variety · frogfish · octopus

Ocean
See dive site

Blacktip reef sharks · turtles · nudibranchs

Ocean
See dive site

Occasional hammerhead sharks · manta rays · turtles

Ocean
See dive site

Reef fish · sunken commercial wrecks

Ocean
See dive site

Sunfish (mola mola) · manta rays · turtles

See dive site

Reef sharks · turtles · hard corals

OceanIslands
See dive site

Reef fish · recovering corals

OceanIslands
See dive site

Reef sharks · turtles · pristine corals

OceanIslands
See dive site

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

OceanMarine protected area
See dive site

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

OceanMarine protected area
See dive site

Clownfish · seahorses · mimic octopus

Ocean
See dive site

Pygmy seahorses · frogfish · mimic octopus

See dive site

Green turtles · blacktip reef sharks

Islands
See dive site

Occasional whale sharks · turtles · groupers

Ocean
See dive site

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

Marine protected area
See dive site

Nesting green turtles · occasional dugongs

OceanIslands
See dive site

Green turtles · clownfish · soft corals

Islands
See dive site

Subtropical fish · lobsters

Islands
See dive site

Occasional dugongs · nesting turtles · hard corals

Islands
See dive site

Turtles · reef sharks · soft corals

Ocean
See dive site

Clownfish · seahorses · mimic octopus

Ocean
See dive site

Reef fish · octopus · granite formations

See dive site

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

OceanMarine protected area
See dive site

Green turtles nesting en masse · manta rays

Islands
See dive site

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

OceanMarine protected area
See dive site

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

Ocean
See dive site
24 °C

Sperm whales and humpback whales · dolphins at Futami (Chichijima) · more than 190 threatened bird species across the archipelago as a whole

IslandsWorld HeritageMarine protected area
See dive site

Blacktip reef sharks · eagle rays

See dive site

Walking sharks (Hemiscyllium) · spider crabs

Ocean
See dive site

Reef sharks · manta rays · occasional hammerhead shark

Ocean
See dive site

Turtles · reef sharks · the nearby HMS Prince of Wales wreck

See dive site

Banggai cardinalfish (an endangered endemic species)

See dive site

Bull sharks · resident dolphins · manta rays

See dive site

Seahorses · turtles · hard corals

Ocean
See dive site

Green and hawksbill turtles · whitetip reef sharks

Ocean
See dive site

Reef fish · turtles · soft corals

Ocean
See dive site

Reef fish · the Kokusai Maru wreck

Ocean
See dive site

Turtles · reef fish · freshwater caves nearby

OceanFreshwaterIslands
See dive site

Reef fish · turtles · hard corals

Ocean
See dive site

Turtles · reef fish · fruit bats on a nearby island

Ocean
See dive site
25 °C

Turtles · reef fish · hard corals

OceanIslandsWorld Heritage
See dive site

Pygmy seahorses · reef sharks · muck diving

Ocean
See dive site

High coral diversity · reef sharks · manta rays

Ocean
See dive site

Whale shark · reef and oceanic manta rays at cleaning stations · seasonal humpback whale

See dive site

Reef fish · a small wreck

Ocean
See dive site

Second World War aircraft and ship wrecks · reef sharks

Ocean
See dive site

Whale shark · dolphins · turtles

Ocean
See dive site