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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273 dive sites found
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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 turtles (Caretta caretta) · groupers
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
Hasta 35 m · Advanced Open Water
25 m21 °C
Groupers · lobsters · minor wrecks
Reef fish · two patrol boat wrecks
Groupers · moray eels · encrusting corals
Groupers · octopus · corals
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
15 m19 °C
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
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)
Hasta 40 m · Advanced Open Water
30 m27 °C
More than 350 species of coral and close to 500 of fish; hammerheads · thresher shark · eagle rays
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
Blacktip reef sharks · turtles · manta rays
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
20 m28 °C
Nudibranchs · seahorses · occasional reef sharks
Stingless jellyfish · reef sharks · hard corals
Clownfish · octopus · occasional reef sharks
Hasta 35 m · Advanced Open Water
30 m27 °C
Reef sharks · hammerheads · thresher shark
Reef fish · Second World War wrecks
Hasta 25 m · Open Water
15 m27 °C
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
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
Hasta 25 m · Advanced Open Water
15 m24 °C
Subtropical fish · lobsters
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
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
Hasta 35 m · Advanced Open Water
20 m27 °C
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)
Seahorses · turtles · hard corals
Bull sharks · resident dolphins · manta rays
Green and hawksbill turtles · whitetip reef sharks
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
20 m28 °C
Reef fish · turtles · 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
Whale shark · reef and oceanic manta rays at cleaning stations · seasonal humpback whale
Reef fish · a small wreck
Hasta 35 m · Advanced Open Water
20 m28 °C
Second World War aircraft and ship wrecks · reef sharks
Whale shark · dolphins · turtles
Seahorses · bioluminescent plankton at night
Leopard sharks · blacktip reef sharks · barracuda
Nudibranchs · seahorses · clownfish
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
Second World War aircraft wrecks · reef sharks
Green turtles · moray eels · reef fish
Reef fish · underwater karst formations
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
Whale sharks on passage · dolphins · manta rays
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
Green turtles · moray eels · reef fish
Whale shark · manta rays · grey reef sharks
Dugongs · manta rays · whale sharks
Dolphins · green turtles · Napoleon wrasse
Leopard sharks · manta rays · occasional whale shark
Reef fish · turtles · hard corals