
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.
Groupers · red corals · lobsters
Groupers · turtles · a submerged aircraft wreck
Spiny lobsters · European lobsters · octopus
Posidonia oceanica meadows · bottlenose dolphin · loggerhead turtle
Groupers · lobsters · corals
Reef and oceanic manta rays · tasselled wobbegongs · endemic walking sharks (Hemiscyllium)
Soft corals · occasional hammerhead sharks · macro life
Close to 950 species of fish and some 400 of coral; mobula rays · short-finned pilot whales · six species of dolphin
Schooling hammerhead sharks · turtles · dolphins
Tarsier (on land) · turtles · sea snakes
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
Blacktip reef sharks · turtles · manta rays
Reef sharks · hammerheads · thresher shark
Occasional hammerhead sharks · manta rays · turtles
Millions of sardines in bait balls · turtles · whitetip reef sharks
Turtles · reef sharks · soft corals
Whitetip reef sharks · turtles · Napoleon wrasse
Schooling scalloped hammerhead sharks · sea snakes · mobula rays
Reef sharks · macro life · pristine corals
Grey reef and silvertip sharks · hammerheads · pelagics
Hammerhead sharks at dawn · grey reef sharks
Marlin · tuna · oceanic sharks
Grey reef sharks · Napoleon wrasse
Leopard sharks · barracuda · light caves
Oceanic whitetip shark (longimanus) · hammerheads · grey reef shark
Hammerhead · oceanic whitetip · thresher and grey reef sharks
Feeding sharks · giant barracuda · large shoals
Groupers · lobsters · nurse sharks
Oceanic whitetip shark · grey reef shark · hammerheads
Occasional oceanic sharks · barracuda · groupers
Hammerhead sharks (best in spring) · grey reef sharks · barracuda
Barracuda · reef sharks · moray eels
Barracuda · trevally · batfish
Grey reef sharks · barracuda · Napoleon wrasse
Hammerhead sharks · grey reef sharks · barracuda
Clownfish · Napoleon wrasse · turtles
Grey reef sharks · hammerhead sharks · barracuda tornadoes
Grey reef sharks in groups of 10 to 30 · huge Napoleon wrasse · barracuda in tornado formation
Grey reef sharks · manta rays · soft corals
Grey reef · silky · nurse
Grey reef sharks · occasional hammerhead sharks · barracuda
Bull sharks · groupers · turtles
Hard and soft coral over every hull · lionfish · moray eels
Eagle rays · turtles · groupers
Nurse sharks · turtles · groupers
Whale sharks (on passage) · octopus · frogfish
Groupers · lobsters · black corals
Reef sharks · groupers · giant sponges
Resident spinner dolphin · turtles · reef and lemon sharks
Nurse sharks · turtles · groupers
The third largest barrier reef in the world · lobsters · groupers
Large shoals of barracuda · reef sharks
Moray eels · lobsters · reef fish
Seahorses · moray eels · lobsters
A wall dropping more than 1 · 000 m; green · hawksbill and loggerhead turtles; sponges and sea fans
Groupers · lobsters · occasional sharks
Occasional bull sharks · giant groupers · lobsters
Giant barrel sponges · groupers · lobsters
Black coral · barrel sponges · sea fans
Humpback whales on passage · occasional oceanic sharks
Humpback whales on passage · sharks · dolphins
Black coral · barrel sponges · sea fans
Turtles · groupers · moray eels
Giant Pacific octopus · giant anemones
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 Pacific octopus · giant anemones
Giant manta ray · bottlenose dolphin · hammerhead shark
Oceanic manta rays at cleaning stations · turtles · reef sharks
Shoals of scalloped hammerhead · silky shark · whale shark
38 species of coral · butterflyfish · Moorish idols
Juan Fernández fur seals · endemic lobsters
Reef sharks · lobsters · groupers
A reef in better condition than that of the main west coast