Diving and snorkelling
553 diving and snorkelling sites across 117 countries — from coral reefs to wrecks more than 404 metres deep.
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281 dive sites found
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Dusky groupers · tuna · amberjack
Reef fish · bioluminescent encrusting corals
Reef fish · lobsters
Groupers · moray eels · seahorses
Groupers · octopus · the Italian Freighter wreck
Groupers · lobsters · sponges (a historic sponge-diving tradition)
Seahorses · lobsters · volcanic formations
Groupers · octopus · lobsters
Groupers · octopus · the Fethiye aircraft wreck
Groupers · moray eels · merchant ship wrecks
Reef fish · octopus · ancient amphora remains
Reef fish colonising the sculptures
Hasta 10 m · Open Water / Snorkel
20 m22 °C
Reef fish
Hasta 35 m · Open Water
25 m21 °C
Groupers · lobsters · corals
Hasta 35 m · Open Water
25 m21 °C
Groupers · corals · two inland salt lakes
Hasta 35 m · Open Water
25 m21 °C
Posidonia oceanica meadows · bottlenose dolphin · loggerhead turtle
Groupers · eagle rays · occasional turtles
Reef fish · two patrol boat wrecks
Reef fish · the turquoise light effect
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
25 m22 °C
Reef fish · moray eels · the nearby Zenobia wreck
Groupers · octopus · corals
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
15 m19 °C
Reef fish · moray eels · the Baron Gautsch wreck
Hasta 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
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
Hasta 35 m · Open Water
25 m28 °C
Tarsier (on land) · turtles · sea snakes
Resident whale shark · more than 35 endemic fish species · hard coral gardens
Blacktip reef sharks · turtles · manta rays
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
20 m28 °C
Nudibranchs · seahorses · occasional reef sharks
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
15 m28 °C
Nudibranchs · seahorses · mimic octopus
Stingless jellyfish · reef sharks · hard corals
Clownfish · octopus · occasional reef sharks
Reef fish · Second World War wrecks
More than 400 species of fish; bumphead parrotfish at dawn · trevally · barracuda
Hasta 25 m · Open Water
15 m27 °C
Nudibranchs in enormous variety · frogfish · octopus
Blacktip reef sharks · turtles · nudibranchs
Turtles · Napoleon wrasse · soft corals
Reef fish · sunken commercial wrecks
Reef sharks · turtles · hard corals
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
15 m28 °C
Whale shark on passage
Reef fish · recovering corals
Giant manta rays · tasselled wobbegongs beneath the table corals · Denise's pygmy seahorse (endemic to Raja Ampat)
Psychedelic frogfish (endemic to Ambon) · Ambon scorpionfish · rhinopias
Resident reef manta rays · cleaner wrasse
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
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
20 m28 °C
Millions of sardines in bait balls · turtles · whitetip sharks
Nesting green turtles · occasional dugongs
Green turtles · clownfish · soft corals
Occasional dugongs · nesting turtles · hard corals
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
20 m28 °C
Turtles · reef sharks · soft corals
Clownfish · seahorses · mimic octopus
Reef fish · octopus · granite formations
Giant trevally of more than 20 kg · bigeye trevally · barracuda
Hasta 15 m · Open Water
15 m27 °C
Reef fish · karst formations
Green turtles nesting en masse · manta rays
Hasta 25 m · Open Water
25 m27 °C
Green turtles well used to divers · shoals of reef fish · dense hard coral
Mimic octopus · blue-ringed octopus · hairy frogfish
Whitetip reef sharks · turtles · Napoleon wrasse
Blacktip reef sharks · eagle rays
Walking sharks (Hemiscyllium) · spider crabs
Reef sharks · manta rays · occasional hammerhead shark
Hasta 25 m · Open Water
15 m28 °C
Pygmy seahorses · frogfish · mimic octopus
Turtles · reef sharks · the nearby HMS Prince of Wales wreck
Banggai cardinalfish (an endangered endemic species)
Seahorses · turtles · hard corals
Green and hawksbill turtles · whitetip reef sharks
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
20 m28 °C
Reef fish · turtles · soft corals
Turtles · reef sharks · soft corals
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
20 m28 °C
Reef fish · the Kokusai Maru wreck
Hasta 25 m · Open Water
20 m28 °C
Turtles · reef fish · freshwater caves nearby
Reef fish · turtles · hard corals
Turtles · reef fish · fruit bats on a nearby island
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
15 m25 °C
Turtles · reef fish · hard corals
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
15 m28 °C
Pygmy seahorses · reef sharks · muck diving
Hasta 35 m · Open Water
25 m28 °C
High coral diversity · reef sharks · manta rays
Reef sharks · dolphins · turtles
Reef fish · a small wreck
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
15 m28 °C
Resident dolphins · whales on passage
Hasta 15 m · Open Water
Whale shark · dolphins · turtles
Seahorses · bioluminescent plankton at night
Leopard sharks · blacktip reef sharks · barracuda
Nudibranchs · seahorses · clownfish
Reef sharks · turtles · barracuda
Seahorses · bioluminescent plankton at night
Hasta 15 m · Open Water
15 m28 °C
Blacktip reef sharks · turtles · parrotfish
Leopard sharks · turtles · seahorses
Clownfish · turtles · octopus
Green turtles · hard corals of great diversity
Green turtles · moray eels · reef fish
Up to 200 reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) at once · the largest known aggregation in the world; whale shark
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
20 m24 °C
Reef manta rays for much of the year · turtles · leopard sharks
Dugongs · whale sharks on passage · turtles
Green turtles · blacktip reef sharks
Nesting green turtles · dugongs · reef sharks
Turtles · whitetip reef sharks · dolphins
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
15 m28 °C
Green turtles · clownfish · hard corals
Hasta 8 m · Open Water
5 m26 °C
Seahorses · octopus · frogfish
Green turtles · moray eels · reef fish
Dugongs · manta rays · whale sharks
Dolphins · green turtles · Napoleon wrasse
Reef fish · turtles · hard corals
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
20 m25 °C
Nesting green and hawksbill turtles · manta rays · reef sharks
Leopard sharks · turtles · occasional manta rays
Hard corals · reef fish · volcanic formations
Reef fish · hard corals
Resident dolphins · turtles · Napoleon wrasse
Bioluminescent plankton (dinoflagellate phytoplankton)
Hasta 25 m · Open Water
25 m26 °C
Reef sharks · turtles · clownfish
Hasta 25 m · Open Water
25 m26 °C
Large potato cod · thoroughly used to divers · Napoleon wrasse
Nurse sharks · hawksbill turtles · manta rays
Clownfish · parrotfish · sea cucumbers
Turtles · clownfish · moray eels
Turtles · occasional dugongs · dolphins
Groupers · lobsters · nurse sharks
Napoleon wrasse · green turtles · pristine corals
Turtles · reef fish
Hasta 40 m · Open Water
30 m26 °C
Whitetip reef sharks · groupers · more than 16 distinct dive sites
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
25 m26 °C
Reef sharks · giant groupers · turtles
Dolphins · turtles · clownfish
Dugongs · turtles · whitetip reef sharks
Turtles · dolphins · clownfish
Bottlenose dolphins in great numbers
Clownfish · moray eels · nudibranchs
Forests of sea fans · moray eels · groupers
Resident bottlenose dolphins
Barracuda · trevally · batfish
Green turtles · thermal warm-water corals
Whale sharks on passage · turtles · manta rays
Hasta 25 m · Open Water
10 m13 °C
Sea otters · sea lions · octopus
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
20 m28 °C
Dolphins · occasional whale sharks · dugongs
Resident dugongs · green turtles
Occasional dugongs · turtles · reef fish
Hasta 25 m · Open Water
20 m27 °C
Turtles · clownfish · soft corals
Juvenile whale shark · dolphins
Turtles · reef sharks · hard corals
Colonial wrecks · lobsters · reef fish
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
25 m27 °C
Nurse sharks · lobsters · reef fish
Hasta 15 m · Open Water
25 m26 °C
Nurse sharks · barracuda · turtles
Whitetip reef sharks · turtles · hard corals
Whale shark · manta rays
Hasta 25 m · Open Water
25 m27 °C
Humpback whales on passage · turtles · lagoon fish
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
20 m27 °C
Reef fish · turtles · hard corals
Turtles · reef sharks · lagoon fish
Hasta 12 m · Open Water
20 m26 °C
Reef fish colonising the underwater memorial
Bull sharks · groupers · turtles
Grey reef · silky · nurse
Turtles · Napoleon wrasse · reef sharks
Hasta 8 m · Open Water / Snorkel
20 m26 °C
Reef fish · the bronze statue of Christ
Nurse sharks · eagle rays · groupers
Lobsters · rays · reef fish
Reef fish · lobsters · corals
20 m26 °C
Manta rays · reef sharks · soft corals
20 m26 °C
Reef sharks · seasonal manta rays · soft corals
20 m26 °C
Reef sharks · turtles · hard corals
Turtles · reef sharks · the John Williams wreck
Reef fish · sculptures of the Underwater Museum of Art
Nurse sharks · eagle rays · groupers
Hasta 15 m · Open Water
20 m26 °C
Reef fish · lobsters · soft corals
20 m27 °C
Reef fish · octopus · lobsters
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
20 m26 °C
Moray eels · large snapper · groupers
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
20 m28 °C
Turtles · reef fish · hard corals
Humpback whale mothers and calves
Sloths in the nearby mangroves · rays · octopus
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
20 m24 °C
Bull sharks (rare) · rays · turtles
Lobsters · turtles · parrotfish
15 m27 °C
Reef fish · hard corals
Turtles · reef fish · the Betty Bomber aircraft wreck
Hasta 15 m · Open Water
25 m26 °C
Sharks · turtles · occasional dolphins
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
15 m15 °C
Giant kelp forests · sea lions · garibaldi
Hard and soft coral over every hull · lionfish · moray eels
Whale shark · spinner dolphins
Parrotfish · lobsters · nurse sharks
Rays · lobsters · reef fish
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
20 m28 °C
Turtles · reef fish · hard corals
Reef fish · turtles · submerged statues
Whale sharks (on passage) · octopus · frogfish
Groupers · lobsters · black corals
Reef fish · lobsters · brain corals
Resident spinner dolphin · turtles · reef and lemon sharks
Nurse sharks · turtles · groupers
Starfish · occasional turtles
The third largest barrier reef in the world · lobsters · groupers
Reef fish · lobsters · minor wrecks
Lobsters · moray eels · reef fish
Nurse sharks · lobsters · turtles
Nurse sharks · lobsters · turtles
Humpback whale mothers and calves
Lobsters · turtles · parrotfish
Moray eels · lobsters · reef fish
Reef fish · brain corals
Turtles · lobsters · parrotfish
Turtles · lobsters · reef fish
Reef fish · an artificially sunk aircraft wreck
Reef fish · lobsters · hard corals
Hasta 15 m · Open Water
25 m27 °C
Silversides · groupers · moray eels
Hasta 18 m · Open Water
Trumpetfish · blue angelfish · lobsters
Hasta 17 m · Open Water
Hasta 4 m · Open Water
15 m27 °C
Southern stingray (Dasyatis americana) in large groups
Reef fish · moray eels