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Philippines Philippine Seaa lot of macro subjects available.
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Egypt Red SeaAn exellent dive, I beleive the best of the four reefs of the Straights of Tiran off Sharm. Both sides of the reef have abundant marine life, and during the warmer months hammer heads can be seen on the north side.
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Egypt Red SeaClear Water
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Philippines South China SeaKoala is south of Eagle Point and was about a 10 minute boat ride from Club Ocellaris the resort I stayed at. It’s made up soft and hard corals along with some very big rocks. It gradually slopes down to a sandy bottom at around 80 feet. I’m told there usually isn’t much current and it makes an idea night dive. I ended up making two dives here. One on the 1st and another on the 2nd.
The first night we were in the water at 6:22. Water temp was 85F and visibility was as far as my light would reach, which meant over 50 feet. Beyond that it was hard to tell.
I almost immediately spied a nudibranch and was delighted to see that it was one that I did not have a photo of. I took several photos. Then a few of some brightly colored feather stars (crinoids) and then my camera stopped working
I cursed myself immediately as my first thought was that I had been getting close to a full memory card and I had allowed myself to get in such a hurry to get in the water, that I had forgotten to change it Then I turned off the camera and continued the dive... what else could I do
Of course this meant that I would have a great dive … among other things I didn’t get to take a photo of was a very nice Warty Frogfish (a small juvenile), a few more species of nudibranchs, various crabs, fish, etc… Plenty of life down there, and I wasn’t getting any photos…. but I would get to make it up a little the following night.
After a short 46 minute dive where I had a maximum depth of 76 feet, we returned to the boat and headed in.
I was back the next night. My dive started at 7:10 PM and lasted 62 minutes. Maximum depth this time was 74 feet and water temperature was again 85F. Visibility also again was as far as my light would shine, 50-60 feet plus.
The dive started off with my getting a shot of a Bluespotted Ribbontail Ray. Roger had suggested earlier in the day about getting shots showing the huge variety of colors and I found myself often following this advice, ending up with photos with the most incredible colors from the huge variety of corals, anemones, and feather stars.
On into the dive along with the usual variety of fish, Peri, my guide, pointed out two nudibranchs right near to one another. Chromodoris willani they turned out to be. Then there was a little red octopus, then an anemone crab, two lionfish together, a wide assortment of corals, sea pens, a prawn, squid, another new species of flatworm (I’m still working on identifying), porcupinefish, another nudibranch (Halgerda carlsoni), another as yet unidentified nudibranch, a flathead, another nudibranch (Phyllidiella pustulosa), and another nudibranch, another anemone crab, a hermit crab, another new species of flatworm, a huge pufferfish inside a barrel sponge, another crab I haven’t identified yet, another new nudibranch, a huge crab, and an hour had flown by. No sign of the frogfish from the night before, but my air supply said it was time to go up!
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Saudi Arabia Red SeaA collection of small islands and shallow reefs dropping off into the depths of the red sea. Wonderfull corals, white tip reefs sahrks, reports of hammerheads, eagle and manta rays, turtles, dolphins, barracuda, napoleon wrasse and whalesharks. An excellent site if the weather is calm enough.
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Thailand Andaman SeaPopular dive site on the west coast of Thailand between Phuket and Phi Phi Islands. Passenger/Car ferry that sunk in May 1997 after colliding with the submerged pinnacle Anemone reef. The ship is 85m long and 25m wide and consisted of several decks that are partly collapsed due to the fact that the ship was already quiet old when it sank, the divers entering the structure leaving bubbles inside and the sea taking its tribute. The wreck is standing on the sandy bottom at 30m with its shallowest point at around 15m. Loads of swim throughs. The upper part is increasingly covered with small staghorn corals, tree soft coral and sea urchins. Sea slugs, scorpion fish and lion fish are using the wreck as home as well as moray eels, sea snakes and Hawksbill turtles. Big schools of pelagics like trevallies, barracudas and rainbow runners. Visibility and currents can be challenging.
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United Kingdom Atlantic (European coastal)A smaller wreck, usually second dive (after the Hood)
it lies just off the harbour wall and has little current
This wreck can have very low viz. It is in the silty part of Portland harbour but can stll provide some marine life
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United States PacificGreat area to dive. Lots of reef fish, moray eels, mantas, and dolphins, macro & wide angle subjects. There are numerous dive operators to take you boat diving as well as lots of shore dives to do. The most popular shore dive is at "The Place of Refuse". The dive site is called "Two Step", named for the two lava steps leading into the water. Ask any dive shop how to get there. Diving in Kona would not be complete without doing the night manta dive. This is a Boat dive and well worth it.
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RussiaClear Water, lake Bajkal
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Oman Indian OceanVery rich site one of the best in the area
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Honduras Caribbean SeaAlways find multiple Hawksbill turtles at this dive site...
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RussiaSand on the bottom
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Oman Arabian SeaGood dive side
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RussiaClear fresh Water
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Maldives Indian OceanOne of many great dive site off the Sea Queen liveaboard out of Male. Diving the Souterhn Ari Atoll in Feb. best time of year for that part of Maldives.
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Thailand Andaman Searoundish limestone rock, north and west side steep wall: soft corals, gorgonians and shoals of snappers, tunas, frogfish. south and eastern side shallow: sandy slopes with staghorn coral fields, boulders with swimthroughs, sea horses, nudibranch, leopard sharks and hawksbill turtles, stingrays.
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Honduras Caribbean SeaMoschitos & Shark
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Mexico Caribbean Seathis is one of the most spectacular coral reefs in this island, it runs about 5 miles long w its top at about 15 feet deep and it descends down to 3000 feet at the deeper point between the chanel separating Cozumel from the main land, colorful sponges of all sizes and colors crowed its walls among big forest of black coral threes where houndreds of fishes swim to welcome the divers that come down to see these beautiful sights.Water has an average of 100 feet visibility, clear as the tequila to toast a god dive.
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Egypt Red SeaWreck Kormoran, deep 8-13 m
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Egypt Red SeaGreat tunnel system with extreme nice lightshows
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