Good diving facilities are also available from the beach - this is a popular and extremely
good diving area.
This is an extremely popular
diving area with over an impressive number of diving sites; divers visit from all over the world to see the impressive coral.
The
main diving areas shown above each have dive resorts that will provide you the means to dive with local guides.
Many diving areas are very close to the shore, rarely more than fifteen minutes away by boat.
It's normal to have lots of questions when you want to explore a
new diving area.
Home to one of the world's
finest diving areas, there's an abundance of world - class schools and instructors.
The pools and facilities are all ready to go and usually there will be a boat and land transport to all of the
surrounding diving areas.
Close to the best
diving areas in Bali, the unspoiled Menjangan Island is just a short boat ride away.
In the 1960's, Cozumel was declared one of the most beautiful
scuba diving areas in the world - and today, parts of Cozumel have even been protected as underwater parks.
The Grand Cayman Scuba Diving Guide: Follow our guide to great scuba
diving areas of Grand Cayman.
Roca Partida is a more advanced
diving area as sometimes there are strong currents and big waves, and most dive spots are quite deep, however, each liveaboard to Roca Partida has their own minimum dive experience level, most expect having your Advanced Open water with at least 50 logged dives, but there are a few which only need you to have your Open Water and no minimum logged dives.
Charly - Dinghy Driver Original from central Sulawesi and with more than 5 years of experience in Raja Ampat and
other diving areas in Indonesia as a dinghy driver, Charly knows the divesites very well and is always ready to drop or pick up divers after the dive.
A perfect
diving area for beginners, yet offering challenging dives for macro-lovers, here are our top picks for dive sites in Phu Quoc.
For more details
on diving the area, check with the Underwater Archeological Society of BC or the dive shops in Campbell River.
These expeditions to the sections of the Great Barrier Reef north of Lizard Island and / or Lockhart River, offer unparalleled opportunities to explore some of the most remote and
pristine diving areas in the world!
This archipelago of islands is a more
advanced diving area as it is an open water dive area and therefore sometimes there are strong currents and big waves, and most dive spots are quite deep, however, each liveaboard has their own minimum dive experience level, most expect having your Advanced Open water with at least 50 logged dives, but there are a few which only need you to have your Open Water and no minimum logged dives.
«Children should know they can't get into the water without permission and without an adult outside, and they should know not to horseplay or roughhouse in the water, and they should never dive in head first unless the water is at least 9 feet deep and in a
designated diving area.»
Only a mile long, Carmel River State Beach includes the Carmel River Lagoon and Wetlands Natural Reserve, a popular birding area, and Monastery Beach, a popular
diving area directly north of Point Lobos State Natural Reserve.
In Salagdoong Beach, the
famous diving area never got emptied of groups and most of the beach cottages are occupied.
It is known as the kingdom of the pygmy seahorses, as well as having small allied cowries in the gorgonian seafans, and nudibranches.Best
known diving areas around Misool: Within each of the following areas, there are always several dive sites.
Pompion Wall Dive Site is a
secluded diving area that gets its name from a privately own island named Pompion Caye, located just 50 minutes from Placencia, Belize.
Your USCG licensed Captain, knowledgeable crew and dive master, will take you to
remote diving areas and pristine reefs teeming with marine life.
Pura Jepun lies on the north side of the Padang
Bay diving area past Blue Lagoon.
The most popular
Pacific diving area is the northwest, where dive centers in Playa del Coco, Ocotal and Hermosa offer trips to several spots in the Culebra Bay and the Bat Islands (Islas Murcielagos), to the northwest, where divers often see sharks and manta rays.
This includes exploring by canoe into the cave of Barton Creek as sailing trips to the most
attractive diving areas.
There are large numbers of independent dive shops, dive centres attached to major resorts and liveaboards throughout the
major diving areas.
Located on Bunaken island at the westerly extreme of Liang Beach, you can access some of the finest wall, muck and
reef diving the area has to offer.
This is the
third diving area consisting of Bangka, Gangga, and Talise Islands with spectacularly colored soft corals, hard corals, and amazing variety of marine life and topography which is quite different to the diving of Bunaken.
The three
key diving areas are Tulamben — home of the famous Liberty shipwreck and a paradise for divers that love macro stuff — also a great place to learn to dive; Lembongan — big channel diving looking for mola mola sunfish and exploring cold water epic seascapes; and Pemeturan, lost in Bali's northwestern tip with Menjagan Island nearby which has some great corals and fish life.
The Banda Sea has historically lived in the shadows of other
Indonesian diving areas but is now recognised as an excellent liveaboard region in its own right with many unique characteristics.
The fringing coral reefs of the
Phuket diving area include some of the best in the world and are home to over 100 reef fish species.
The Banda Islands - Because the Banda Sea is located centrally in Indonesia's
vast diving area, it borders many other wonderful diving regions.
If you are staying in Santa Teresa, apart from
local diving areas, the best diving place is Tortuga island.
«My trips often take me to remote and far -
removed diving areas, mainly in the Asian - Pacific area» explains Claudia Peyer, who has been capturing unique images of underwater landscapes with professional equipment since 2008 and has artistically documented this hidden world with impressive photos.
Also keep the vertical dimensions in mind: Most pools slope down from a shallow, three - foot deep wading section to an eight - or 10 -
foot diving area so family members of all ages can have fun.
Scuba diving must be mentioned in the ultimate Bay of Islands Travel Guide, because the Bay of Islands actually is one of the
best diving areas in New Zealand.
Tulamben has always been one of the
main diving areas on Bali due to the presence of the Liberty shipwreck which is located just off the sheltered beach offering an excellent diving opportunity fort all standards including beginners and even first timers.
Raja Ampat in Indonesian Papua is not one of the most frequently visited
scuba diving areas in the world which is strange since almost everyone who knows anything about the area agrees that there can surely be nowhere better on earth.
They have been
diving this area for more years than most and have a huge wealth of experience to ensure your diving schedule not only exhilarates, but also suits your experience level.