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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Groupers · corals · lobsters
Groupers · conger eels · the Reggio Messina wreck
Large groupers · conger eels · deep-water corals
Groupers · red corals · moray eels
Groupers · ospreys · corals
25 m22 °C
Groupers · moray eels · Posidonia meadows
Reef fish · lobsters · the blue light effect
Groupers · red corals · moray eels
Groupers · corals · a marked underwater trail
Groupers · corals · archaeological remains
Grey seals · lobsters · numerous historic shipwrecks
Grey seals · lobsters · the first Marine Conservation Zone in the United Kingdom
Curious grey seals · lobsters
Lobsters · conger eels · several artificial wrecks
Grey seals · historic lighthouse wrecks
Plumose anemones · conger eels · scallops; typical cold-water fauna of the North Atlantic
Lobsters · spider crabs · plumose anemones
Grey seals · basking sharks on passage · gannets
Basking sharks on passage · lobsters · First World War wrecks
Groupers · corals · red gorgonians
Loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) · groupers
Corals · moray eels · lobsters
Groupers · lobsters · red corals
Groupers · corals · Punic archaeological remains
Reef fish · corals · lobsters
Dusky groupers · tuna · amberjack
Groupers · moray eels · the remains of historic wrecks
Reef fish · bioluminescent encrusting corals
Underwater fumaroles · groupers · thermal-water corals
Angelsharks · occasional basking sharks · manta rays
Groupers · red corals · lobsters
Reef fish · lobsters
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)
Underwater sulphur fumaroles · reef fish
Seahorses · lobsters · volcanic formations
Reef fish · moray eels
Groupers · octopus · lobsters
Reef fish · lava formations · an aircraft wreck
Groupers · turtles · a submerged aircraft wreck
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
Hasta 50 m · Advanced
30 m22 °C
Reef fish · encrusting corals
Manta rays · hammerhead sharks · blue sharks
Groupers · eagle rays · occasional turtles
Hasta 35 m · Advanced Open Water
25 m21 °C
Groupers · lobsters · minor wrecks
Hasta 40 m · Advanced Open Water
25 m21 °C
Groupers · lobsters · corals
Reef fish · two patrol boat wrecks
Groupers · moray eels · octopus
Reef fish · the turquoise light effect
Groupers · moray eels · encrusting corals
Hasta 42 m · Technical
25 m20 °C
Large groupers · barracuda · moray eels
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
25 m22 °C
Reef fish · moray eels · the nearby Zenobia wreck
Hasta 35 m · Advanced Open Water
25 m21 °C
Reef fish · moray eels · the Achilleas tug wreck
Groupers · octopus · corals
Hasta 35 m · Advanced Open Water
15 m20 °C
Groupers · moray eels · Second World War wrecks
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
15 m19 °C
Reef fish · moray eels · the Baron Gautsch wreck
Orcas · humpback whales · herring
Cod · lobsters · giant anemones
Cold-water Lophelia corals · lobsters · cod
Limited wildlife; a unique mineral tufa chimney
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)
Soft corals · occasional hammerhead sharks · macro life
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
Schooling hammerhead sharks · turtles · dolphins
Hasta 35 m · Open Water
25 m28 °C
Tarsier (on land) · turtles · sea snakes
Migrating blue whales · sperm whales
Green and hawksbill turtles on almost every dive · eagle rays · reef sharks
Resident whale shark · more than 35 endemic fish species · hard coral gardens
Chevron barracuda in tornado formation · green and hawksbill turtles · whitetip sharks
Reef manta rays all year round at Manta Point; sunfish (Mola alexandrini) in the cold season; turtles · reef sharks
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
Hasta 30 m · Advanced Open Water
15 m27 °C
Resident oceanic manta rays · whale sharks on passage
Manta rays at the cleaning stations of Koh Bon and Koh Tachai · turtles · leopard sharks
Hasta 35 m · Advanced Open Water
30 m27 °C
Reef sharks · hammerheads · thresher shark
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
Occasional hammerhead sharks · manta rays · turtles
Turtles · Napoleon wrasse · soft corals
Reef fish · sunken commercial wrecks
Sunfish (mola mola) · manta rays · turtles
Reef sharks · turtles · hard corals
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
15 m28 °C
Whale shark on passage
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)
Psychedelic frogfish (endemic to Ambon) · Ambon scorpionfish · rhinopias
Oceanic manta rays · reef sharks · shoals of trevally
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 · Advanced
20 m27 °C
Pelagic thresher shark · occasional manta and mobula rays · whitetip sharks at Gato Island
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
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
Hasta 40 m · Advanced Open Water
15 m28 °C
Coral and invertebrates over the whole hull · mandarinfish · abundant macro life
Hasta 35 m · Advanced Open Water
20 m27 °C
More than 300 species of coral recorded; dense shoals of fish · passing pelagics · pygmy seahorses
Mimic octopus · blue-ringed octopus · hairy frogfish
Sperm whales and humpback whales · dolphins at Futami (Chichijima) · more than 190 threatened bird species across the archipelago as a whole
Whitetip reef sharks · turtles · Napoleon wrasse
Schooling scalloped hammerhead sharks · sea snakes · mobula rays
Occasional whale shark and manta ray · schooling mackerel and barracuda · frogfish
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
Leopard sharks · barracuda · giant groupers
Turtles · reef sharks · the nearby HMS Prince of Wales wreck
Blacktip reef sharks · barracuda · turtles
Reef sharks · macro life · pristine corals
Banggai cardinalfish (an endangered endemic species)
Seahorses · turtles · hard corals
Bull sharks · resident dolphins · manta rays
Manta ray · occasional whale shark · grey reef shark
Hasta 40 m · Advanced
30 m28 °C
Reef sharks · giant groupers · Napoleon wrasse
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 28 m · Advanced Open Water
15 m26 °C
Olive sea snakes · very large turtles · groupers
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 sharks · dolphins · turtles
Reef fish · a small wreck
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
15 m28 °C
Resident dolphins · whales on passage
Hasta 35 m · Advanced Open Water
20 m28 °C
Second World War aircraft and ship wrecks · reef sharks
Hasta 15 m · Open Water
Hasta 40 m · Open Water on the shallow reefs; advanced on Perpendicular Wall
Whale sharks · manta rays · spinner dolphins all year round
Resident manta rays · turtles
Hasta 40 m · Advanced
30 m27 °C
Grey reef sharks · silky sharks · giant corals
Whale shark · dolphins · turtles
Seahorses · bioluminescent plankton at night
Leopard sharks · blacktip reef sharks · barracuda
Nudibranchs · seahorses · clownfish
Hasta 35 m · Advanced Open Water
30 m28 °C
Reef sharks · manta rays · pristine corals
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
Hasta 30 m · Advanced Open Water
20 m27 °C
Turtles · reef sharks · manta rays
Second World War aircraft wrecks · reef sharks
Hammerhead sharks at dawn · grey reef sharks
Green turtles · moray eels · reef fish
Reef fish · underwater karst formations
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
Marlin · tuna · oceanic sharks
Mangroves · seagrass meadows · fringing reef; the world's largest population of giant tortoise
Dugongs · whale sharks on passage · turtles
Whale sharks on passage · dolphins · manta rays
Green turtles · blacktip reef sharks
Reef sharks · Second World War wrecks · soft corals
Grey reef sharks · Napoleon wrasse
Nesting green turtles · dugongs · reef sharks
Turtles · whitetip reef sharks · dolphins
Leopard sharks · barracuda · light caves
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
15 m28 °C
Green turtles · clownfish · hard corals
Leopard sharks · manta rays · barracuda
Nurse sharks · giant lobsters · underwater caves
Hasta 8 m · Open Water
5 m26 °C
Seahorses · octopus · frogfish
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
Manta rays · grey reef sharks · Napoleon wrasse
Reef fish · turtles · hard corals
Reef sharks · turtles · high coral biodiversity
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
20 m25 °C
Nesting green and hawksbill turtles · manta rays · reef sharks
Migrating hammerhead sharks · enigmatic rock formations
Oceanic whitetip shark (longimanus) · hammerheads · grey reef shark
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)
Hammerhead · oceanic whitetip · thresher and grey reef sharks
Hasta 25 m · Open Water
25 m26 °C
Reef sharks · turtles · clownfish
Oceanic · hammerhead and pelagic thresher sharks
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
Hammerheads · grey reef shark · oceanic whitetip
Hasta 55 m · Technical (mandatory decompression)
Large tuna · big grouper · trevally; the absence of fishing and of diving pressure has left an exceptional density of fish
Dolphins · turtles · clownfish
Nurse sharks · American crocodiles · sea turtles
Oceanic whitetip shark · grey reef shark · hammerheads
Dugongs · turtles · whitetip reef sharks
Turtles · dolphins · clownfish
Hasta 30 m · Advanced Open Water
25 m26 °C
Bull sharks · lemon sharks · goliath groupers
Tiger shark · lemon shark · nurse shark
Bottlenose dolphins in great numbers
Clownfish · moray eels · nudibranchs
Forests of sea fans · moray eels · groupers
Occasional oceanic sharks · barracuda · groupers
Giant moray eels up to 2 m · dusky groupers · clownfish
Resident bottlenose dolphins
Hammerhead sharks (best in spring) · grey reef sharks · barracuda
Barracuda · reef sharks · moray eels
Flying fish · occasional sharks · hard corals
Barracuda · tuna · batfish
Barracuda · trevally · batfish