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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...
Monad Shoal (Malapascua)
## Monad Shoal — Malapascua Island, Philippines The alarm sounds at **4:30am**. By 5am you're on the banca boat in the...
Barracuda Point Sipadan
## Barracuda Point — Sipadan Island, Sabah, Malaysia **Sipadan** stands alone. The island rises **600 meters from the s...
Turtle Tomb
## Turtle Tomb — Sipadan Island, Sabah, Malaysia **Turtle Tomb** is an underwater cave system accessible from Sipadan's...
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...
Ulong Channel
Drift dive through a natural canyon flanked by lettuce coral gardens. Grey reef sharks patrol the exit into the blue. Ju...
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...
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 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...
Maya Thila
Submerged pinnacle in North Ari Atoll. Grey reef sharks, white-tip reef sharks, turtles, and large schools of snapper. N...
Dunraven Wreck
## Dunraven Wreck — Sha'ab Mahmoud, Sinai, Egypt The **Dunraven** is a **British steamship** built in Newcastle in 1873...
Shark and Yolanda Reef
## Shark Reef and Yolanda Reef — Ras Mohammed, Egypt At the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, **Ras Mohammed Nationa...
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...
Ningaloo Reef
## Ningaloo Reef — Western Australia **Ningaloo Reef** is a 300-km fringing coral reef system on the northwest coast of...
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...
