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553 diving and snorkelling sites across 117 countries — from coral reefs to wrecks more than 404 metres deep.
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Grey seals · lobsters · the first Marine Conservation Zone in the United Kingdom
Curious grey seals · lobsters
Lobsters · conger eels · several artificial wrecks
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
Groupers · lobsters · red corals
Corals · moray eels · lobsters
Groupers · corals · Punic archaeological remains
Groupers · moray eels · the remains of historic wrecks
Dusky groupers · tuna · amberjack
Angelsharks · occasional basking sharks · manta rays
Groupers · moray eels · seahorses
Groupers · octopus · the Italian Freighter wreck
Groupers · lobsters · sponges (a historic sponge-diving tradition)
Groupers · red corals · lobsters
Reef fish · moray eels
Groupers · turtles · a submerged aircraft wreck
Reef fish · lava formations · an 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 50 m · Advanced
30 m22 °C
Reef fish · encrusting corals
Hasta 35 m · Open Water
25 m21 °C
Posidonia oceanica meadows · bottlenose dolphin · loggerhead turtle
Manta rays · hammerhead sharks · blue sharks
Groupers · eagle rays · occasional turtles
Hasta 35 m · Open Water
25 m21 °C
Groupers · corals · two inland salt lakes
Hasta 35 m · Advanced Open Water
25 m21 °C
Groupers · lobsters · minor wrecks
Groupers · moray eels · octopus
Groupers · moray eels · encrusting corals
Reef fish · two patrol boat wrecks
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
Cold-water Lophelia corals · lobsters · cod
Limited wildlife; a unique mineral tufa chimney
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
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 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
Hasta 35 m · Open Water
25 m28 °C
Tarsier (on land) · turtles · sea snakes
Reef manta rays all year round at Manta Point; sunfish (Mola alexandrini) in the cold season; turtles · reef sharks
Chevron barracuda in tornado formation · green and hawksbill turtles · whitetip 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
More than 400 species of fish; bumphead parrotfish at dawn · trevally · barracuda
Hasta 35 m · Advanced Open Water
30 m27 °C
Reef sharks · hammerheads · thresher shark
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 · Second World War wrecks
Occasional hammerhead sharks · manta rays · turtles
Reef fish · sunken commercial wrecks
Reef sharks · turtles · hard corals
Reef sharks · turtles · pristine corals
Reef fish · recovering corals
Clownfish · seahorses · mimic octopus
Occasional whale sharks · turtles · groupers
Nesting green turtles · occasional dugongs
Giant manta rays · tasselled wobbegongs beneath the table corals · Denise's pygmy seahorse (endemic to Raja Ampat)
Clownfish · seahorses · mimic octopus
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
20 m28 °C
Turtles · reef sharks · soft corals
Giant trevally of more than 20 kg · bigeye trevally · barracuda
Oceanic manta rays · reef sharks · shoals of trevally
More than 260 species of reef fish · 68 of coral · 48 of nudibranch and 31 of shrimp recorded in the park
Whitetip reef sharks · turtles · Napoleon wrasse
Schooling scalloped hammerhead sharks · sea snakes · mobula 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
Walking sharks (Hemiscyllium) · spider crabs
Reef sharks · manta rays · occasional hammerhead shark
Seahorses · turtles · hard corals
Leopard sharks · barracuda · giant groupers
Hasta 35 m · Advanced Open Water
20 m27 °C
More than 300 species of coral recorded; dense shoals of fish · passing pelagics · pygmy seahorses
Blacktip reef sharks · barracuda · turtles
Reef sharks · macro life · pristine corals
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 35 m · Open Water
25 m28 °C
High coral diversity · reef sharks · manta rays
Reef sharks · dolphins · turtles
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
15 m28 °C
Pygmy seahorses · reef sharks · muck diving
Reef fish · a small wreck
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
15 m25 °C
Turtles · reef fish · hard corals
Hasta 35 m · Advanced Open Water
20 m28 °C
Second World War aircraft and ship wrecks · reef sharks
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
Hasta 15 m · Open Water
15 m28 °C
Blacktip reef sharks · turtles · parrotfish
Green turtles · moray eels · reef fish
Clownfish · turtles · octopus
Seahorses · bioluminescent plankton at night
Green turtles · hard corals of great diversity
Hasta 30 m · Advanced Open Water
20 m27 °C
Turtles · reef sharks · manta rays
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
20 m24 °C
Reef manta rays for much of the year · turtles · leopard sharks
Reef sharks · Second World War wrecks · soft corals
Mangroves · seagrass meadows · fringing reef; the world's largest population of giant tortoise
Nurse sharks · giant lobsters · underwater caves
Marlin · tuna · oceanic sharks
Dugongs · whale sharks on passage · turtles
Turtles · whitetip reef sharks · dolphins
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
15 m28 °C
Green turtles · clownfish · hard corals
Dugongs · manta rays · whale sharks
Dolphins · green turtles · Napoleon wrasse
Leopard sharks · manta rays · occasional whale shark
Reef fish · turtles · hard corals
Reef sharks · turtles · high coral biodiversity
Oceanic whitetip shark (longimanus) · hammerheads · grey reef shark
Migrating hammerhead sharks · enigmatic rock formations
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
20 m25 °C
Nesting green and hawksbill turtles · manta rays · reef sharks
Hard corals · reef fish · volcanic formations
Reef fish · hard corals
Resident dolphins · turtles · Napoleon wrasse
Hammerhead · oceanic whitetip · thresher and grey reef sharks
Turtles · occasional dugongs · dolphins
Turtles · clownfish · moray eels
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 25 m · Open Water
25 m26 °C
Reef sharks · turtles · clownfish
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
25 m26 °C
Reef sharks · giant groupers · turtles
Dolphins · turtles · clownfish
Nurse sharks · American crocodiles · sea turtles
Oceanic whitetip shark · grey reef shark · hammerheads
Hammerheads · grey reef shark · oceanic whitetip
Dugongs · turtles · whitetip reef sharks
Turtles · dolphins · clownfish
Clownfish · moray eels · nudibranchs
Barracuda · trevally · batfish
Barracuda · tuna · batfish
Hammerhead sharks (best in spring) · grey reef sharks · barracuda
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
Grey reef sharks · barracuda · Napoleon wrasse
Reef fish · moray eels
Barracuda · reef sharks · moray eels
Giant moray eels up to 2 m · dusky groupers · clownfish
Occasional oceanic sharks · barracuda · groupers
Forests of sea fans · moray eels · groupers
Hammerhead sharks · grey reef sharks · barracuda
Hammerhead sharks · tiger shark · silvertip shark
Turtles · reef sharks · hard corals
Colonial wrecks · lobsters · reef fish
Clouds of glassfish · giant moray eels · octopus
Hasta 15 m · Open Water
25 m26 °C
Nurse sharks · barracuda · turtles
Hasta 40 m · Advanced Open Water
30 m24 °C
Almost 300 species of fish and more than 20 of coral; manta rays · sharks · turtles
The third largest barrier reef in the world · reef sharks · inland blue holes
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
25 m27 °C
Nurse sharks · lobsters · reef fish
Whale shark · manta rays
25 m26 °C
Grey reef sharks · manta rays · soft corals
Hasta 40 m · Advanced Open Water
10 m14 °C
Lobsters · black sea bass · bottom fish
Reef fish · Second World War wrecks
Caribbean reef sharks · nurse sharks
Cold-water fish · rock lobsters
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
20 m27 °C
Reef fish · turtles · hard corals
Whitetip reef sharks · turtles · hard corals
Turtles · reef sharks · lagoon fish
25 m26 °C
Soft corals · manta rays · reef sharks
Hasta 12 m · Open Water
20 m26 °C
Reef fish colonising the underwater memorial
Bull sharks · groupers · turtles
Grey reef · silky · nurse
25 m26 °C
Multicoloured soft corals · reef sharks
Nurse sharks · eagle rays · groupers
Turtles · reef sharks · the John Williams wreck
Lobsters · rays · reef fish
25 m26 °C
Grey reef sharks · occasional hammerhead sharks · barracuda
Turtles · Napoleon wrasse · reef sharks
Reef fish · lobsters · corals
Grey seals · lobsters · the highest tide in the world
Limited wildlife; a world mecca of freediving
20 m26 °C
Manta rays · reef sharks · soft corals
Hasta 8 m · Open Water / Snorkel
20 m26 °C
Reef fish · the bronze statue of Christ
25 m26 °C
Multicoloured soft corals · reef sharks
20 m26 °C
Reef sharks · turtles · hard corals
25 m27 °C
Reef fish · turtles · occasional sharks
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
20 m24 °C
Bull sharks (rare) · rays · turtles
Sloths in the nearby mangroves · rays · octopus
Lobsters · turtles · parrotfish
Hasta 65 m · Advanced / technical
25 m25 °C
Barracuda · goliath groupers · occasional sharks
20 m27 °C
Reef fish · octopus · lobsters
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
20 m28 °C
Turtles · reef fish · hard corals
Hasta 40 m · Advanced Open Water
25 m28 °C
Reef fish · occasional sharks
15 m27 °C
Reef fish · hard corals
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
20 m26 °C
Moray eels · large snapper · groupers
Nurse sharks · eagle rays · groupers
Hasta 15 m · Open Water
20 m26 °C
Reef fish · lobsters · soft corals
Turtles · reef fish · the Betty Bomber aircraft wreck
Reef sharks · turtles · karst formations
Hasta 40 m · Advanced Open Water
20 m27 °C
More than 130 species of fish; algae · sponges
Golden jellyfish (Mastigias papua) and moon jellyfish · neither with an effective sting
Hasta 70 m · Technical (Trimix)
10 m10 °C
Groupers · cold-water lobsters
Hasta 15 m · Open Water
25 m26 °C
Sharks · turtles · occasional dolphins
Hasta 40 m · Advanced Open Water
25 m26 °C
Barracuda · goliath groupers · occasional bull sharks
Parrotfish · lobsters · nurse sharks
Hard and soft coral over every hull · lionfish · moray eels
Hasta 40 m · Advanced Open Water
25 m28 °C
Reef fish · turtles · occasional sharks
Intact anti-aircraft guns · Zero aircraft engines in the hold
Groupers · nurse sharks · giant lobsters
Rays · lobsters · reef fish
Reef fish · turtles · submerged statues
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
20 m28 °C
Turtles · reef fish · hard corals
Hasta 40 m · Advanced Open Water
20 m28 °C
Japanese and American Second World War wrecks
Hasta 37 m · Advanced Open Water / technical
25 m28 °C
Reef fish · encrusting corals
Nurse sharks · turtles · groupers
Whale sharks (on passage) · octopus · frogfish
Groupers · lobsters · black corals
Reef sharks · groupers · giant sponges
Reef fish · lobsters · brain corals
Reef sharks · groupers · lobsters
Belugas · seals · cold-water anemones
Reef fish · hard corals · turtles
Starfish · occasional turtles
Nurse sharks · turtles · groupers
The third largest barrier reef in the world · lobsters · groupers
Reef fish · lobsters · minor wrecks
Lobsters · moray eels · reef fish
Cold-water fish · fragments of Baltic amber
Nurse sharks · lobsters · turtles
Nurse sharks · lobsters · turtles
Moray eels · lobsters · reef fish
A wall dropping more than 1 · 000 m; green · hawksbill and loggerhead turtles; sponges and sea fans
Seahorses · moray eels · lobsters
Reef fish · brain corals
Turtles · lobsters · parrotfish
Groupers · lobsters · occasional sharks
Turtles · lobsters · reef fish
Hasta 30 m · Advanced Open Water
20 m24 °C
Bull sharks · fishing boat wrecks · rays
Lobsters · reef sharks · turtles
Reef fish · an artificially sunk aircraft wreck
Reef fish · lobsters · hard corals
Reef fish · moray eels
Hasta 30 m · Advanced Open Water
20 m24 °C
Nesting loggerhead turtles · lemon sharks · rays
Hasta 18 m · Open Water
Trumpetfish · blue angelfish · lobsters
Hasta 17 m · Open Water
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
28 m27 °C
Parrotfish · barracuda · moray eels
Groupers · occasional reef sharks · wrecks
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
30 m27 °C
Reef fish · nurse sharks
Hawksbill turtles · seahorses · the Wallblake wreck
Reef fish · moray eels · lobsters
Hasta 300 m · Advanced Open Water
30 m26 °C
Humpback whales on passage · occasional oceanic sharks
Hawksbill turtles · seahorses · reef fish
Hasta 25 m · Open Water
30 m26 °C
Lobsters · turtles · groupers
Hasta 17 m · Open Water
25 m27 °C
Groupers · moray eels · reef fish
Hasta 300 m · Advanced Open Water
35 m27 °C
Hammerhead sharks · giant groupers · turtles
Seahorses · turtles · groupers
Hasta 50 m · Advanced / technical
20 m27 °C
Barracuda · groupers · nurse sharks
Lobsters · groupers · corals
Hasta 10 m · Open Water
15 m27 °C
Reef fish colonising the sculptures
Hasta 15 m · Open Water
20 m28 °C
Geothermal bubbles · reef fish
Hasta 30 m · Open Water
25 m27 °C
Hard and soft coral over the hull · lobsters · moray eels
Hasta 25 m · Advanced Open Water
20 m27 °C
Lobsters · nurse sharks · numerous historic wrecks
Turtles · rays · reef fish
Seahorses · turtles · groupers
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
25 m27 °C
Hawksbill turtles · blacktip reef sharks · eagle rays
Cold-water fish · numerous well-preserved war wrecks
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
20 m27 °C
Turtles · rays · reef fish
Hasta 20 m · Open Water
20 m27 °C
Reef fish · lobsters · soft corals
Parrotfish · rays · octopus
Hasta 120 m · Advanced Open Water
25 m27 °C
Turtles · groupers · moray eels
Hasta 50 m · Advanced Open Water
25 m27 °C
Reef sharks · manta rays · black corals
Hasta 30 m · Advanced Open Water
25 m28 °C
Reef sharks · giant trevally · manta rays
Reef fish · starfish · corals
Hasta 25 m · Open Water
10 m16 °C
Sea lions · leopard sharks · rays
Giant sea stars · seals · colourful anemones
Hasta 40 m · Advanced, drift diving
20 m24 °C
Enormous shoals of scalloped hammerhead · whale shark (June-November) · Galápagos shark
Hasta 40 m · Advanced, drift diving
20 m24 °C
Schooling scalloped hammerheads · whale shark · Galápagos shark
Clownfish · lionfish · octopus
Ringed seals · occasional walruses
Octopus · crabs · rock lobsters
Seahorses · octopus · temperate-water corals
Sea lions · manta rays · dolphins
Hasta 25 m · Open Water
10 m17 °C
Garibaldi · lobsters · occasional leopard sharks
300 species of hard and soft coral · 512 species of fish · seagrass meadows; hawksbill turtles
Bull sharks · giant groupers · manta rays
Hasta 40 m · Advanced Open Water
10 m15 °C
California lobsters · rockfish · sea lions
Grey nurse shark (raggie) in breeding aggregations · oceanic blacktip shark all year round · tiger shark
Seven species of shark aggregate here · among them hammerheads · grey nurse shark and giant guitarfish; Zambezi (bull) shark
Hasta 15 m · Open Water
20 m25 °C
Reef manta ray · on occasion a dozen or more on a single dive
Marine hippopotamuses · green turtles · dolphins
15 m24 °C
Tiger sharks · manta rays · ridley and loggerhead turtles
Bull sharks · hammerhead sharks · humpback whales
Hasta 20 m · Advanced (certified cage)
15 m17 °C
Great white shark · Australian sea lion
Brackish-water fish · mussels · ancient wrecks
15 m22 °C
Dolphins · sharks and seabirds during the Sardine Run
Rays · moray eels · tropical Pacific fish
Reef fish · hard corals
Hasta 18 m · Open Water
15 m22 °C
Bull sharks · leopard sharks · turtles
Shoals of scalloped hammerhead · silky shark · whale shark
Hasta 15 m · Open Water
8 m16 °C
Weedy seadragon · seahorses
Hasta 45 m · Advanced Open Water
10 m15 °C
California purple coral (a protected species) · lobsters
Hasta 30 m · Advanced Open Water
10 m12 °C
Shallow-water black coral · seals · dolphins
Southern right whales · sea lions · orcas
Marine otters · dolphins · Humboldt penguins
Hasta 30 m · Advanced, drift diving
15 m22 °C
Hammerhead sharks · mobula rays · sea lions
Hasta 25 m · Open Water
10 m22 °C
Seahorses · rays · sea lions
Hasta 25 m · Advanced Open Water
20 m19 °C
Subtropical fish · lobsters · unique acoustics
Magellanic penguins · sea lions · dolphins