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PhilippinesHere you will find beautiful coral decorated reefs teeming with marine life. Bonus is that Agnay Sanctuary is situated in a protected bay area, making this dive easy to handle. Calm sea conditions and much to see and explore. A good place to see eagle rays and frogfishes.
This spot can be reached in 5 minutes from Lonos, Romblon or 15 minutes from Romblon Town. This spot can be visit 12 months a year.
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PhilippinesDue to its location Times Square is a rather remote dive. Despite the fact that this site is not dived often, it remains one of the most beautiful sites with great snorkeling opportunity and pristine undisturbed reefs, abundant marine life and great photo opportunity.
A dive spot rich in swarm fish like fusilier fishes and surgeonfishes.
Great coral formations, many nudibranchs, moray eels and much more.
This spot can be reached in 3 to 4 hours from Romblon Town or Lonos, Romblon.
This spot can be visit 12 months a year.
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Ireland Atlantic (European coastal)Beach dive, no facilities. Shallow shelving sandy/maerl beach onto silt/sand bottom. Leading onto maerl beds and sea grass. Loads of small critters & occasional nosy grey seal.
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United States Atlantic (North American coastal)Beach dive off of the board walk.
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Maldives Indian OceanOnce you've dodged the sea planes, the boats and the water skiers you can finally descend into the water. Great housereef with cleaning station showing black and white tipped reef sharks and Mantas to name but a few.
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Fiji Koro SeaJim's Alley is well known dive site in Fiji and visited by a number of liveaboards. It lies on the North end of the Barrier reef surrounding Gau Island in Fiji. It is a series of Bomie systems which break up the barrier, it is full of soft coral such as Dendronephthya and Scleronephthya and huge numbers of shoaling fusiliers and anthias.
It sits in about 25m of water and is a prime location to see Manta rays from around May through to November.
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Maldives Indian OceanFriendly staff on Fihalhohi Island Resort. Water temp at around 30C year round. Shore dives and boat trips available. Particularly decent house reef with a great deal of variety which means you never get bored. Both North and South sides of the island can be visited with visible stop/turnaround points. Sloped sand entry to South and drop entry with vertical wall to North.
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Portugal Atlantic (European coastal)Remote islands located near Canary Islands. The area is protected and diving is possible only when allowed by Portuguese authorities. High diverity of species and clear water all year round. Best to go in the summer as the sea can be rough during winter.
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Mozambique Indian OceanAn absolute must do if visiting Pomene.
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South Africa Indian OceanA relatively deep dive at around 40 odd meters, beautiful formations and some nice swim-throughs. Interesting caves and over-hangs can be found and explore in the deeper regions. This makes for a challenging and exciting dive
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Maldives Indian OceanSituated in the Maldives, Bandos Island Resort has an excellent house reef and suitable for diving all year round. The water temperature is consistently around the 30ºC mark so only a 3mm wetsuit required. I've been to the Maldives quite a few times and this is probably the best house reef I've ever encountered.
The Dive Centre staff are a friendly, helpful bunch and very keen on underwater video and photography so if you ever need any tips or tricks they're more than able to help. Unlike some Maldivian islands, diving here is slightly more laid back with no pre-booking necessary. If you're qualified and pass the necessary check dive, you can enter the water unguided when it suits and there will always be a cylinder waiting. Obviously, it's necessary to sign in and out of the water for safety and billing purposes! The island also has a hyperbaric chamber onsite so should an emergency arise, (and this can't happen because we're careful right?) you're in he best place. Boat trips are also readily available, usually two in a morning or full day trips. These are pre-booked and may be cancelled at short notice if not enough people show interest.
Water entry is just a short walk from the Dive Centre, an easy 20 yard swim to the marker buoy and then straight down. Maximum depth allowed by Maldivian Law is 30m. Currents were very mild with only one exception on full moon when it was impossible to keep still and I watched my buddy's bubbles go horizontal :-D Of course, this makes things more interesting because now the sharks come in to feed!
The reef has just about everything to offer, white and black tipped reef sharks in abundance, turtles, stonefish. eagle wrays and the usual huge shoal of blue striped snappers you would expect to see in the Maldives. Other sea life includes moray eels of varying sizes, batfish, blue jacks and a very shy octopus. The batfish appear very protective. On each dive, one seems to break off from it's family to follow your every move, where you go, it will go and it won't let it's friends come near. Try and make eye contact with it and it looks away fast! Very cool, bless!
Let me not forget the mighty lobster. From the entry point, descend to around the 10m mark and turn left. About twenty kicks of the fin in, you'll meet the mighty lobster and what a beautiful sight he is! He is impossible to miss, has no shyness at all and will pose with relish for the camera. At approximately 40cm long with antennae reaching a total of 1 metre across he is a beauty!
The corals on this reef are coming along nicely and in fact there's little evidence of bleaching on this particular reef. It consists mainly of hard corals but there are a few soft as well. We didn't get chance to do a night dive this time which is when you're most likely to see the softies.
Lastly, there's also a small wreck available for viewing. It's too small to be penetrated but nonetheless offers a further attraction to diving here. This is again, to the left of the entry point and starts off at around 15m and goes down to 27m (ish). There are huge grouper fish living in there as well as a cute but rather large brown moray.
This island is highly recommended, if you get the chance, go!!
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United Kingdom North SeaGreat Green Carr has loads of kelp and myriad marine life
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Malaysia South China SeaTop reef at 16m sloping down to 30m, exposed reef on the outer edge of the TAR Park, 7 mins boat ride from the Downbelow dive centre on Gaya island
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Indonesia Ceram Sea...
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Malaysia South China SeaDeep top reef starting at 16m going down to 35m, nice for nudi's and fish life, 6mins from the Downbelow 5' IDC Dive Centre (the only dive centre going there)
more info about Richard's Reef, TARP, Kota Kinabalu including maps, reviews, and ratings...
GermanyUW-wood
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Malaysia South China SeaSlopeing reef down to 20m ok corals but lots of critters including Mandarin fish, mainly a macro dive, This is a shore dive from the Downbelow dive center on Gaya island
more info about Downbelow House Reef TARP Kota Kinabalu including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Malaysia South China SeaNice little snorkel or dive site, top reef 0-5m slope down to 10-12m, sheltered location, accessed by boat from the Downbelow Dive Center on Gaya in just 3 mins.
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Egypt Red SeaRas Mohammed
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Malaysia South China SeaLarge reef offshore but situated alongside the TAR Park, top reef around 10m slopes down to 30+m with very nice corals, accessed in just 6 mins from the Downbelow Dive Centre on Gaya Island
more info about Edgel Patches, Tunku Abdul Rahman Park, Kota Kinabalu including maps, reviews, and ratings...