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The sites.
One descent at a time.
A curated index of famous dive sites — wrecks that Cousteau discovered, cleaning stations where manta rays queue, channels where sharks stack in the current.
Aliwal Shoal
## Aliwal Shoal — KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa **Aliwal Shoal** is a fossilised sand dune, 5 km off the KwaZulu-Natal co...
Blue Shark Dive Cape Town
## Blue Shark Diving — Cape Town, South Africa Off the **Cape Peninsula**, in the cold, nutrient-rich waters of the Sou...
Anilao
## Anilao — Batangas, Philippines **Anilao** is a peninsula on the southwestern coast of **Batangas province**, 110 km...
Apo Reef
One of the largest contiguous coral reefs in the Philippines. Walls, pinnacles, and high fish diversity. Liveaboard acce...
Monad Shoal (Malapascua)
## Monad Shoal — Malapascua Island, Philippines The alarm sounds at **4:30am**. By 5am you're on the banca boat in the...
Tubbataha North Atoll
UNESCO site in the Sulu Sea. Liveaboard-only, March–June. Massive schools of jacks, reef sharks, turtles, and marbled st...
Tubbataha Reef
## Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park — Sulu Sea, Philippines **Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park** is a UNESCO World Heritage Sit...
Barracuda Point Sipadan
## Barracuda Point — Sipadan Island, Sabah, Malaysia **Sipadan** stands alone. The island rises **600 meters from the s...
Sipadan South Point
Hammerhead season (April–July) brings schooling scalloped hammerheads to Sipadan's south drop-off. Grey reef sharks patr...
Turtle Tomb
## Turtle Tomb — Sipadan Island, Sabah, Malaysia **Turtle Tomb** is an underwater cave system accessible from Sipadan's...
Bloody Bay Wall
Little Cayman's vertical wall that drops from 6m straight to over 2,000m. Sponges in electric colors, tarpon, and the se...
MV Captain Keith Tibbetts
## MV Captain Keith Tibbetts — Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands The **MV Captain Keith Tibbetts** is a former **Soviet Friga...
USS Kittiwake
Ex-US Navy submarine rescue ship deliberately sunk in 2011 as an artificial reef off Grand Cayman. Fully penetrable, acc...
Blue Corner
## Blue Corner — Ngemelis Wall, Palau Ask any diver who has been to Palau what the single best dive of their life was....
German Channel
Artificial channel dredged by the Germans in the early 1900s to access the lagoon. Now a manta ray cleaning station. Bes...
Peleliu
## Peleliu — Palau **Peleliu** is the southernmost inhabited island of Palau's main island group — historically signifi...
Ulong Channel
Drift dive through a natural canyon flanked by lettuce coral gardens. Grey reef sharks patrol the exit into the blue. Ju...
Blue Hole Dahab
Vertical shaft in the shoreline reef at Dahab. Infamous Arch at 56m. Recreational dive on the outside lip — do not attem...
Daedalus Reef
Remote offshore reef. Scalloped hammerhead schools in summer on the south plateau. Liveaboard only.
Dunraven Wreck
## Dunraven Wreck — Sha'ab Mahmoud, Sinai, Egypt The **Dunraven** is a **British steamship** built in Newcastle in 1873...
Elphinstone Reef
## Elphinstone Reef — Southern Red Sea, Egypt An offshore pinnacle rising from 65 meters to just below the surface, **E...
Ras Mohammed
Marine park at the southern tip of Sinai. Shark Reef and Yolanda Reef. Summer brings big pelagics; year-round reef divin...
Shark and Yolanda Reef
## Shark Reef and Yolanda Reef — Ras Mohammed, Egypt At the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, **Ras Mohammed Nationa...
Shark Reef Ras Caesar
## Shark Reef / Ras Caesar — Brothers Islands, Egypt The **Brothers Islands** — Al-Ikhwa in Arabic, 'the brothers' — ar...
SS Thistlegorm
## SS Thistlegorm — Red Sea, Egypt The **SS Thistlegorm** is the most famous wreck dive on Earth — not because it's the...
Cannibal Rock
Cold-water pinnacle in Horseshoe Bay (south Komodo). Perhaps the most colorful soft-coral site in Indonesia. Pygmy seaho...
Cape Kri
## Cape Kri — Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia **Cape Kri** holds a world record. In 2002, American marine biologist G...
Castle Rock Komodo
Submerged pinnacle in the ripping current of Komodo's north. Sharks stacked in the blue, huge schools of trevally and fu...
Crystal Bay
## Crystal Bay — Nusa Penida, Bali, Indonesia **Crystal Bay** on the western coast of Nusa Penida is one of the most ph...
Lembeh Strait
## Lembeh Strait — North Sulawesi, Indonesia The **Lembeh Strait** is a narrow channel between the Minahasa Peninsula a...
Manta Point Komodo
## Manta Point Komodo — Komodo National Park, Indonesia **Manta Point** (also called Karang Makassar) sits on the south...
Manta Point Nusa Penida
## Manta Point Nusa Penida — Bali, Indonesia **Manta Point** on the southwestern coast of **Nusa Penida** — a large isl...
Manta Sandy
## Manta Sandy — Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia **Manta Sandy** (also known as Manta Ridge) is a shallow cleaning st...
USAT Liberty
## USAT Liberty — Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia The **USAT Liberty** is the most accessible major wreck dive in the world....
Cathedral Rock
## Cathedral Rock — Ari Atoll, Maldives **Cathedral Rock** (also known as Maaya Thila in some operator literature, thou...
Fesdu Wreck
30-meter cargo boat sunk in 1990 as an artificial reef. Covered in soft corals, glassfish, and batfish. Good for wreck p...
Fotteyo Kandu
## Fotteyo Kandu — Felidhoo Atoll, Maldives **Fotteyo Kandu** (Fotteyo Channel) is a **channel dive** on the eastern ri...
Hanifaru Bay
Marine reserve in Baa Atoll. From June to November, manta rays aggregate to feed on plankton in numbers that can exceed...
Maya Thila
Submerged pinnacle in North Ari Atoll. Grey reef sharks, white-tip reef sharks, turtles, and large schools of snapper. N...
Chinchorro Bank
## Chinchorro Bank — Quintana Roo, Mexico **Banco Chinchorro** is the largest coral atoll in the Northern Hemisphere —...
Dos Ojos Cenote
Two connected cenotes ('Two Eyes') near Tulum. Crystal-clear freshwater, shafts of sunlight, and stalactites. One of the...
MUSA Underwater Museum
Contemporary art museum built on the seafloor off Cancún. 500+ life-sized concrete sculptures by Jason deCaires Taylor....
Palancar Reef
Multi-section wall complex on Cozumel's southwestern side. Gardens, Caves, Horseshoe, Bricks — pick your section based o...
Santa Rosa Wall
Classic Cozumel drift wall. Swim-through tunnels, eagle rays, groupers, and the drop into the Cozumel Channel's blue. Ev...
Socorro Island
## Socorro Island — Revillagigedo Archipelago, Mexico **Socorro Island** is the largest of the four **Revillagigedo Isl...
Darwin's Arch
## Darwin's Arch — Darwin Island, Northern Galápagos, Ecuador **Darwin's Arch** was one of the most iconic natural rock...
Gordon Rocks
## Gordon Rocks — Galápagos Islands, Ecuador **Gordon Rocks** is a collapsed volcanic crater sitting 10 km northeast of...
Wolf Island
## Wolf Island — Northern Galápagos, Ecuador **Wolf Island** (Isla Wolf) is the northernmost island in the Galápagos ar...
Great Blue Hole
## Great Blue Hole — Lighthouse Reef Atoll, Belize From the air — and from space — it is unmistakable: a **perfect circ...
Half Moon Caye Wall
Vertical wall dropping over 1,000m on the south side of Lighthouse Reef. Caribbean reef sharks, eagle rays, turtles, and...
Hin Daeng
Remote pinnacle in southern Thailand. Soft coral wall to over 70m. Manta rays, whale sharks (seasonal), and schooling pe...
Hin Muang
## Hin Muang (Purple Rock) — Andaman Sea, Southern Thailand **Hin Muang** — 'Purple Rock' — is a submerged seamount in...
Richelieu Rock
## Richelieu Rock — Surin Islands, Thailand **Richelieu Rock** is a horseshoe-shaped submerged pinnacle — barely breaki...
Sail Rock
## Sail Rock — Gulf of Thailand, Thailand **Sail Rock** (Hin Bai) is a granite pinnacle rising from 40 meters to just a...
Similan Islands
## Similan Islands — Andaman Sea, Thailand The **Similan Islands** are nine uninhabited granite islands in the **Andama...
Ningaloo Reef
## Ningaloo Reef — Western Australia **Ningaloo Reef** is a 300-km fringing coral reef system on the northwest coast of...
Osprey Reef
## Osprey Reef — Coral Sea, Australia **Osprey Reef** is an isolated atoll 350 km northeast of Cairns in the **Coral Se...
Ribbon Reef No. 10
Outer Great Barrier Reef liveaboard site. Pristine hard coral gardens, potato cod at Cod Hole, minke whales in June–July...
SS Yongala
## SS Yongala — Townsville, Queensland, Australia The **SS Yongala** vanished on **23 March 1911** in Cyclone Leonta, t...
