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Puerto Rico Caribbean SeaWelcome to Rincon PR a well hidden dive secret, I think most people believe that Puerto Rico has very poor water quality, but in fact we have 60Ft plus visibility for at least 8 months out of the year. What keeps our diving a well kept secret is there is only one dive operator in our town (Tiano Divers) and they are subject to the operating around rough weather and loading a boat from a shore launch not marina, this pretty much make us a hard core divers stop, you know people who don't mind a little work to get to dive some great reefs and walls, we have two island within reach of our coast. First is Desacheo Island which sits about 12 miles west of our town and Mona Island located 42 miles offshore. Desacheo is a marine reserve as is Mona but Mona being so hard to plan a trip too is our version of heaven on earth, If your ever in PR I suggest you take dive and see for your self, you might just end up moving here as I did.
more info about The Snapper Motel, Rincon PR 00677 including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Thailand Andaman SeaLocated on the north west side of Phi Phi Ley. Partly wall (laying in north-southern direction) with dendronephtya soft corals, sea fans. Sandy bottom around 15-20m, boulders laying around, on the outer ones cleaning stations with interesting macro life: nudibranch, cleaner shrimp, ghost pipe fish, seahorse, frog fish, pipe fish. Shoals of snappers. Hawksbill turtles and occasional leopard sharks around. In the north temporaly blacktip reef sharks seen.
more info about Palong, Koh Phi Phi Ley including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Brunei Darussalam South China SeaManta Boulevard
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RussiaLopatka
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Cuba Caribbean SeaDolphin's house
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AustraliaAwesome diving.
Manta rays, marble rays, Bull rays.
Loggerhead Turtles, other turtles.
Queensland Gropers.
Sea Snakes.
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United Kingdom North Sealaunch from Seahouses. Loads of wrecks. Not for beginners as there are some strong currents. The seals are very inquisitive and will nibble your fins
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Cayman islands Caribbean SeaOne of my favorite dive sites. Very friendly French Angelfish, turtles, groupers.
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United Arab Emirates Indian OceanWreck 45-50 ft long on the depth 28-32m, current.
Marine life - black-spotted moray "Captain Fred", big and fat turkey-fish, stone-fish, sometimes stingray, crocodile-fish, sea-snakes.
more info about Inchcape-1, Fujeira, Unated Arab Emirates including maps, reviews, and ratings...
RussiaWater + 4 Celsiy
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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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Thailand Andaman SeaOne of the best divesites for Ao Nang Local Island. A lot of big schools of snappers, fusiliers etc. Macro life very rich with nudibrances, seahorses etc Visibility varies from the low to excellent.
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South Africa Indian OceanA really nice site in test same system as Gasmic Gorge. Lots of outcrops with an abundance of underwater life lots of schooling fish as well as a wide array of fans corals and sponges. Lots of small marine life for the macro photographer as well
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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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Martinique Caribbean SeaWhat a great spot! Starting out very shallow with lots of coral blocks full of small creatures; crabs, shrimps, frogfish, nudibranches etc. Towards the corner of the bay the reef slowly starts to drop to around 100'. Here again lots of big coral boulders encrusted with tube sponge and barrel sponges. Silversides circling the boulders and in between snappers and jacks.
This dive site holds great picture opportunities for macro and wide angle alike!
I found this dive site while anchored in that bay with the 58' catamaran I work on. But I am sure there are dive shops who will go and dive there.
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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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Martinique Caribbean SeaIt's not often you dive a wreck that was sunk by a volcano - this one was
It's only a five minute ride from the dive center but it's very deep - 140 feet to the stern - so well preserved.
It's 400 feet long and upright. You can get inside but with limited bottom time it's not one for the faint hearted or inexperienced.
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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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