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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...
Indonesia Bali SeaThis divesite which is located a few hundered meters north of Batu Kelebit is accessed from the shore, consisting of small stones and pebbles. At a depth of around 4 meter the bottom changes into sand with here and there a small coral formation with small marine life.
more info about The River, Tulamben, Bali including maps, reviews, and ratings...
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.
more info about King Cruiser Wreck including maps, reviews, and ratings...
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.
more info about Bida Nai including maps, reviews, and ratings...
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.
more info about Palancar reef one of the most famous and beautiful reefs at the island of Cozumel including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Thailand Andaman SeaLimestone rock, one shallow side (south-east) with sandy slopes and staghorn-, table- and lobate corals, soft coral fields. Northern side is mainly wall transforming into boulders on the western part. Dendronephtya soft coral colonies, schools of trevallies and dog tooth tuna. Leopard and Blacktip sharks are common as well as Hawksbill turtles. Also intersting for macro stuff: seahorses, ghostpipe fish and various nudibranch species.
more info about Bida Nok including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Thailand Andaman SeaWall dive with occasional sandy slopes and staghorn coral fields. Mostly slight current going south, beautiful soft corals, morays, lionsfishes, cleaner shrimp, occasional leopard sharks and hawksbill turtles, longnose filefish and comet
more info about Phi Ley Wall including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Netherlands Antilles Caribbean SeaFantastic place for diving. Great diving fantastic weather but wow you can bankrupt a third world country at one restraurant. Clear warm water, 22 inches of rainfall a year and a constant breeze
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Honduras Caribbean SeaOne of many great dive sites in Roatan. Dive Master LIber from Mayan Divers is safe but fun with his underwater jestures.
more info about Pablo's Place including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Philippines Visayan SeaThis is an underwater photography station, a haven for macro enthusiasts. Subjects can be found on the area are frogfish of varying sizes, ghostpipefish,mandarin fish, harlequin shrimp, pigmy seahorse, orangutan crab, pink squatlobster, etc. aside from the varied species of benthic and pelagic fish species that now thrive in the are after being declared a protected area.
more info about Dakit-Dakit Marine Sanctuary, Maribago, Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu, Philippines including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Mexico Caribbean SeaIf you have some experience and quick thinking, even if your strobe fails and dont work, you can switch to natural light and got some interesting silouettes like this, specially if you are diving in very clear water as we have in the island of Cozumel.See you in the Sea.
more info about Palancar reef-Cozumel including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Brazil Atlantic (South America coastal)My PhD. research takes place here, at Arvoredo Reserve, considered the southern limit for the distribution of many tropical (warm) water species.
more info about Arvoredo Archipelago (Arvoredo, Gales and Deserta island) including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Thailand Indian Oceanmore info about Mango Bay , Koh Tao including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Egypt Red SeaGreat 100 year old wreck on the north west point of Big Brother Island, Egypt.
more info about Numidia, Big Brother including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Australia PacificLots of nooks, crannies, caves, and heaps of small macro life. Great chance of seeing Eastern Blue Devil Fish and Weedy Seadragons.
more info about The Docks, Jervis Bay, NSW including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Palau PacificGerman channel - Palau
more info about German channel, Palau including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Spain Balearic SeaGet there with Sea Gypsy Divers
more info about Ocean Diver, near Son Bou including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Norway North SeaLurefjorden north of Bergen is home to the fantastic deep-sea jelly Periphylla periphylla, also known as crown jelly. There animals normally live on a depth of 7-800 to 7-8000 meters, but in Lurefjorden they can be found thriving in "just" 400 meters of water.
To see these amazing creatures it is necessary to dive at night in the winter (february is the best time). The dive is done in the middle ov the fjord, over deep water, as the jellies migrate vertically. The best time is a moonless night between midnight and 02:00. If you're lucky, you'll see thousands!
Every february we do a special "jelly safari" weekend with Gulen Dive Resort (www.gulendiveresort.com), the only resort in the world to offer this unique experience. Diving is for advanced/experienced divers only, as it is done in open, pitch black water several hundret feet above the bottom. It is very easy to loose track of your depth as there are no points of reference.
more info about Lurefjorden including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Caribbean SeaClose to Young Island, this is an awesome muck dive, you just don't know what you're going to see!
more info about Critter Corner including maps, reviews, and ratings...