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Italy Tyrrhenian SeaFrom Palau, with Nautilus Dive Center, we dived at a few sites, Washington, Lavezzi (France), Caprera. Great diving with fans, fish and great macro. I had a surprise of the underwater life in Sardinia. Palau is a great location for the diving. As there are 40 dive sites from 5 to 40 mins away. The team are great and they look after all your needs. Nitrox is also on hand. Check out their webpage.
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more info about National Park La Maddalena Sardinia including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Cyprus Mediterranean SeaVery good organisation with Blue Dolphin Scuba Diving center based at 5 star hotel called Jasmine Court. While you are diving your friends or your family can use their beach and swimming pool free
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Malta Mediterranean SeaRed Coral Reef is a dive that you can stay just about as long as you like. It is only 10 meters deep so your deco time is a gift from god:) also since it is not deep the colors shout out at you and it is one of the few places in the med you can see the red coral. It is located right off St Julians. We had gone with one of the dive shops in St Julians (Neptunes Dive Center).
They have a dive boat and it only took us 5 min from the base to get there. If you like colors this will be the dive for you!
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Malta Mediterranean Seathe bristol beaufighter is a ww2 english plane that crashed into the sea right off st julians, malta in 1943. the plane is an great dive and is done daily by the dive shops in st julians.
if you get a chance to dive in malta make sure you do this one!!!
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Italy Mediterranean SeaThe Nereo Cave, is a huge marine cave under the high limestone cliffs of Capo Caccia.
The cave is considered the bigger marine cave of all the Med Sea. With the many entrance, archs and tunnels, itis possible to make an astonishing dive from 0 to 35 mt.
The blue effects of the many entrance give to the video and film photographer, incredible chance. The roofs covered of red coral and yellow leptosamnia full of color any picture.
Thanks to the many canyons and the many other caves, all the area around permit to make more than 20 different dives in only 150 mt of coast line.
The place infact is considered one of the Mediterranean Sanctuary for divers, biologist, photographer and the wild lover.
With the other cape of Punta Giglio and the Porto Conte Bay, who are now Marine reserve from the 2003, there is the choice to dive in more of other 30 caves, and a lot of caverns.
All around the tipical mediterranean flora and fauna, with groupers, lobsters, congers and moray heels and a lot of colored incrustation life.
More detail at
website Marco Busdraghi
Video and photo maker
more info about Grotta di Nereo, Capo Caccia - Sardinia including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Thailand Andaman SeaRacha Noi another further South offers on the east side sandy areas with hard corals and rock formations. One truly spectacular dive site is the "SouthTip". Giant boulders are nicely covered with soft corals and the scenery is almost like Similan Islands. Deep water around guarantees good visibility and occasional strong current put forward and bigger pelagics such as barracudas, leopard sharks, eagle rays, blackspotted stingrays, big groupers and manta rays.
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Japan PacificSCUBA diving in Izu Oshima is somewhat unique from other dive sites at similar range of latitude world wide. Since the island is about 40km remote from mainland, and partially affected by warm Black Current from Philippine Sea, water is clear and extremely wide variety of marine lives are seen. Different creatures and different habits are observed at every time of dive even though you dive the same point repetitively.
Guided dives by extremely knowledgeable staffs are another great advantage in this island. Since those staffs dive the same place almost everyday, sometimes more than once a day, they know almost every pieces of creatures living in every holes and cracks of rocks. They not only just give you names of those creatures but also brief you how they lives, such as holding and protecting eggs, and how they grows.
The island is surrounded mostly by rocky coast, but sandy beaches are limited. There are no coral reefs along the coast, but some hard corals can be seen in limited places. Warm water current, so called Black Current, from Philippine Sea is flowing off southern end of the island, and partially reaches west coast of the island. This current brings many kinds of sea lives from tropic ocean, and those are often seen during September to December. However, as water is cooled down by strong cold wind from North in winter season, those tropical creatures die and disappears.
Another current with cold and nutrition rich water is flowing from deep see floor to east coast surface of the island. Therefore many fishes from small to big are gathering to these area. Huge school of sardines, snappers are often seen, especially during the autumn season. Jack fishes, tunas, sharks and even whales are also found chasing those schools quite often.
Water temperature rises to 24C at highest during September-October, but drops down to 14C at lowest during March-April.
I have prepared a detailed guide to Izu Oshima for foreign divers convenience at the following URL.
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Malaysia Celebes Sea
Sipidan and Mabul off the coast of Borneo, Malaysia was one of the best dive locations ever.
Where else can you get the big fish and macro life just 1 island away. When Sipidan had the resorts, you could literally walk out from your beach bungalow to the pristine Celebes Sea and experience white tip and Black tip sharks, loads or huge Hawsbill turtles, Humpheads, Barracuda and nearly every colorful sea life imaginable for a sunset dive.Or take the speed boat 5 minutes to the dive sites where wall dives and reefs and the open blue offer huge sharks, including scalloped hammerheads, nurse and thrasher sharks galore.
Then onto Mabul which is a 15 minute boat ride away, one can see Corocodile fish, large Frog fish in a multitude of colors, Mantis shrimp, ribbon eels, huge Giant Morays,and finally a Pygmy Seahorse that was so hideen in the fan coral that you almost needed a magnifying glass to see it. So beautiful and delicate, its hard to imagine how it ever survives. The list goes on and on.
Truly a Paradise for Divers!!
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Samoa Pacific
the name says it!
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Australia
Sightings of Leafy seadragons and Weedie Seadragons are GUARANTEED by the operator
Swim with seals and endangered (species) Australian Sealions.
Sixty two different types of Nudibranch have been photographed in this area.
Over 80 of the fishlife in the area are endemic to Southern Australia.
More than 135 NEW SPECIES have been found in the last few years( photos and details available)
Bottlenose dolphins often approach divers and frequently snorkellers spend considerable time interacting with a very friendly pod that live in the area.
Brachiopods ( one of the oldest living fossils) are found here in certain areas.
This is a remote area , low visitation, with clean clear waters, clean beach, high cliffs,spectacular scenery, abundant wild life both marine and terrestial.
Three major ocean bodies met in this area, waters from east and west Australia, plus waters from the Great Southern Ocean and waters from the Gulfs of South Australia.
Season runs November to mid April ( southern summer and autumn)
Small groups of divers , all dives are guided.
Water temperatures range from 15C-16C in November to 19C-20C in January.
The Island is quite large, allow extra time for diving and sight seeing.
Tours & hire cars available. No public transport. Multiple flights daily from Adelaide.
Ferry service from Cape Jervis ( about 1.5 hours south of Adelaide)
Good hire equipment available.
Contact operator for details and advice on local travel bookings.
more info about The Arch, Kangaroo Island including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Italy Mediterranean Sea
Good dive for all type of diver. It's in the center of famous Marine National Park of Portofino. When you are near of -10 meter look like to be in an aquarium.
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Micronesia Pacific
An amazing wall dive, with sharks passing by every other minut, and with amazing macro : leef fish, slags from many kind and colurs, very colurfull soft corals and big fans.
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Egypt Red Sea
In July august and september it is the best dive site in the world with over 30 meter vis
with 26 celcius in the water.
You can see it all macro and sharks, rays and dolphins, turtles and schools of baracuda and tuna.
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Italy Tyrrhenian Sea
One of the best sites in Italy: we can find all that we find in the Mediterranean Sea but, above all, groupers and barracudas.
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Italy Mediterranean Sea
A lot of sealife and red coral.
Email us at click here to email or visit our website website for more info.
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Puerto Rico Caribbean Sea
Taino Divers in Rincon, PR will take you out to the island for the best kept secret in the Caribbean. It takes about 45 minutes to get there & coming back can be rough & wet but thats part of the fun. Yellow Reef is on the North side & cant be dived sometimes but the South side is good as well. Also Dos Pesones is a killer dive to around 95 feet, it means two nipples.
Rincon is a funky little surfer town with a number of American expats. It is on the West coast & about 2.5 hours from San Juan.
Mona Island is another option in the Summer, it is about 40 miles off Rincon. This is a multi-day diving/camping trip. Highly recommended but you gotta be able to rough it.
The Humpbacks come through from Jan. to March & also Pilot Whales. Late Feb. is best time to see them.
Check it out for a cheap dive vacation w/ lots of other things to do.
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Bermuda Atlantic
It was an absolutely fantastic dive with the hull sitting in about 55 feet of water i went with Triangle Diving i am a resident to the Island and Triangle is by far the best most trustworthy and has the coolest dives including North Rock the most famous dive however this is on the south shore and the life is quite different with the posibility of a shark passing through
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Papua New Guinea Bismarck Sea
A mile off shore or less, this site had large basket sponges, small walls with shark action, and plenty of reef fish. Noticeable were the unicorn fish that were being cleaned and turned an iradescent blue when they were happy. Clown fish and anenomes of several kind. Blind shrimp with gobies as look out. Soft coral of various colors. Currnt was barely noticeable. The water temp. was 90F.
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Malta Mediterranean Sea
Dwejra has about 4 dive sites and a multitude of possibile dives. You can start from the inland sea and swim out through a tunnel, start from the Blue hole and then swim out. You can also opt for a boat dive to Crocodile rock where depths of 40m are easily reached. The swim out of the tunnel has some spectacular photographic opportunities, and it was this site that encouraged me to take up underwater photography. There is also the Coral Garden, with some lovely colours. There is also a large cave to the right of the inland sea, but this should be undertaken as a boat dive as there is a long swim.
Its one of the few place in the Maltese archipelago where one can see large groupers.
One of the main attractions of this area is the colour of the sea. The blue here is like nowhere else in Malta or Gozo.
This area is very popular with tourists all year round.
I hope more people visit the islands to see our extensive heritage, the oldest erect building in the world is in Malta, and our clear blue waters with many wrecks and sites to visit.
Look for Malta and diving on the internet, and you will find some interesting pictures of what is available in Malta.
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Norway Atlantic
TURUT is not a large commercial scuba related company, but a happy couple with a keen interest in scuba diving who can take you on a very personal vacation with a group of socially aware people!
We arrange week long scuba trips to the island Hitra several times a year. We stay in comfortable appartements at Knutshaug Fishing Resort on Dolmøy, and we run boat dives 3 times a day. One day we go onboard a larger boat for a 10 hour journey through the skerries of Mausund and Sula. Hitra offers tremendous cold water UW-fauna, excillarating drift dives through narrow sounds, wrecks, and UW-hunting usually leading to food on the table.
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