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Egypt Red SeaUn photographe amateur immortalisant une tortue verte
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Egypt Red SeaBig Brother island is one of the best dive site in red sea.Beautiful marine life from small tropical fish,coral,moral eals, turtles,tuna,grey reef sharks,white tip sharks,thresher shark and if you are lucky can see hammer head sharks as well.Visibility is from 10-30 meters and some times even more and the whole island is surrounded by big reef tha can drop up to maybe 100 meters and more.Excellent and easy dive site..Also there is a wreck lying on the reef and is worth the world to see it.A dive site that can leave memories for ever.
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Brazil Atlantic (South)A huge reef to be explored.
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Ukraine Black SeaUnderwater Gallerie of old statues of "bolsheviks"
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Indonesia Bali SeaThe reef of Sanur is a largely underestimated and overlooked area for Scuba diving in Bali and not many divers go there. Depending on the tides and some other factors, the visibility can range from fairly good to quiet low and moderate current can occur. The reef is slowly sloping down and best from around 7 - 20 metres, a sandy bottom with many small coral boomies and a great variety of marine life. Some things that can be encountered here are: Nudibranch, Octopus (occasionally blue ring), Shrimp, Lobster, Reef sharks and much more. You will dive from a local boat (Jukung) or with one of the Sanur dive operators boats.
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Russia Sea of Japantest of stars
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Thailand Andaman SeaEasy sloping reef. Lots of hard corals and the usual marine fishes.
0 - 25 m on a typhical dive.
Garden eels and Rays in the sand from 14 m and deeper.
Highpoints are Turtles, Octopus, Frogfish and Ghostpipe fishes.
Dolphins frequently seen from the boat around lunchtime.
Good for all PADI courses.
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Mauritius Indian OceanNorth of Mauritius Island
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Egypt Red SeaThis reef is one of the most spectular diving sites in the northern Red Sea.
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Indonesia Bali SeaJust offshore, starts @1 meter below surface, lots of corals and gorgonians, nudibranchs, and fish. Nasty currents occasionally.
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Saint Lucia Caribbean SeaBest time of year to dive this site is March because there is a 90% chance of seeing a seahorse and a frog fish.
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Egypt Red SeaDay dive, 14 mtrs, 1/5 Flash + 1/8 Flash, 20mm f:12 , 1/250 sec.
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Iran (Islamic Republic of) Caspian SeaQESHM ISLAND (Jazira-ye Qešm, Ar. Jazira-al-Ṭawila); the largest island (ca. 122 km long, 18 km wide on average, 1,445 sq km) in the Persian Gulf, about 22 km south of Bandar-e ʿAbbās (q.v.). Separated from the mainland by the straits of Ḵurān (Clarence Strait), Qeshm runs virtually parallel to the Persian coast between Bandar-e ʿAbbās in the east and Bandar-(e) Lenga in the west (Sailing directions for the Persian Gulf, p. 123; Handbuch des Persischen Golfs, p. 155).
The toponomy of the island has varied greatly over time. Nearchus referred to an island near the mouth of the Persian Gulf as Oaracta (e.g., Geog. 16.3.7; Pliny, Natural History 6.98), where, in Arrian’s account, Nearchus was shown the tomb of Erythras (Goukowsky, p. 120), after whom the Erythraean Sea was thought to have been named (Arrian, Indica 27; cf. Oracta, Ooracta, Doracta). Portuguese sources refer to the island as Queiximi/ Queixome /Queixume (Tomaschek, p. 48; cf. Quesomo in Jean de Thévenot, and the Kichmichs of Sir John Chardin [Curzon, II, p. 410]), in which we easily recognize Qeshm. They also mention Broco/Boroch/Beroho/Brocto (Tomaschek, p. 48), which scholars have long (e.g., d’Anville, p. 149; Stein) identified with Greek Oaracta. (Curzon, II, p. 410, noted a village called “Brukth/Urukth” on Qeshm).
The Aḵbār al-Ṣin wa’l-Hend (851 CE) mentions the island of Abarkāwān (see ABARKĀVĀN) in the eastern Persian Gulf, between Sirāf and Muscat (Sauvaget, p. 7). This is identical to the island of Bani Kāwān, assigned by Abu Esḥāq Eṣṭaḵri to the district of Ardašir-ḵorra (q.v.; Eṣṭaḵri, pp. 106-7), also known to Eṣṭaḵri, Masʿudi and Ebn Ḥawqal as Lāft, (Schwarz, p. 82, n. 13). For Yāqut (Schwarz, p. 83) the isles of Kāwān and Lāft (or Lāfet) were one and the same; and Lāft survives as the name of the second largest town, historically, on Qeshm (Curzon, II, p. 411). According to Balāḏori, Abarkāwān/Qeshm was reckoned part of Kermān, rather than Fārs, prior to the Islamic conquest, a point made plausible by the fact that when ʿOṯmān b. al-ʿAṣ landed there at the beginning of the Islamic conquest, he encountered a margrave of Kermān (Schwarz, p. 83). Later lexicographers explained Abarkāwān as a corruption of Jazira-ye gāvān, (cow island); this is a folk etymology, which is reflected in Ṭabari’s story of a commander in Khorasan who accused his soldiers of having ridden only cattle and donkeys on the isle of Banu Kāwān before he had turned them into competent cavalrymen (Schwarz, p. 83). Ebn Ḵordāḏbeh identified the island of Banu Kāwān as a station between Kish and Hormuz on the sea-route to India and China and described its inhabitants as belonging to the ʿEbādi sect (Sprenger, p. 79; Schwarz, p. 83).
In 1301, the ruler of Hormuz, Bahāʾ-al-Din Ayāz, moved his court and a large portion of his population to Qeshm following a Tartar attack (Piacentini, p. 112; Wilson, p. 104). From this period onward the island was an important dependency of the Kingdom of Hormuz, often providing drinking water to Hormuz itself (Steensgaard, pp. 195, 297). When the king of Hormuz, Qoṭb-al-Din Tahamtan III Firuz Shah, abdicated in favor of his son, Ṣaif-al-Din (1417-36) in 1417, he retired to Qeshm (Piacentini, p. 99). Qeshm’s status as a major Hormuzi mercantile center is shown by the fact that, in late September1552, the Turkish commander Piri Reʾis raided it, seizing “a great quantity of goods, of gold and silver, and of cash … the richest prize that could be found in all the world,” according to a contemporary account (Özbaran, p. 81; Ökte, p. 157).
In January 1619, Ruy Freire de Andrade left Lisbon for the Persian Gulf with orders to disperse the English, who had established a factory at Jāsk in 1616 (Boxer, p. 58), and to put pressure on the Persians, in part by dislodging the Persian garrison on Qeshm and building a Portuguese fort there (Boxer, p. 71; Slot, p. 107; Steensgaard, p. 312). Two thousand Portuguese soldiers, supported by 1,000 Hormuzi t
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Saint Lucia Caribbean SeaIt is a shallow dive, maximum depth 30 ft. It has a couple of underwater caves with lots of seahorses and frog fish. Best time to dive the site is March, that is when you are more likely to see the frog fish.This is one of the best dive site in St-Lucia for Underwater Photography. You can see Turtles, Sea Horse and Frog fish on this site. The best time of year to dive this site is in March, April or May.
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United States Atlantic (North American coastal)Discover Diving will take you there and a few other places along with it .
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Indonesia PacificI love this site. Frogfish, turtles, pygmy seahorse. Just great!
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Egypt Red SeaNight diving
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Egypt Red SeaTwo mile long open bay.
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Indonesia Java SeaJava sea
thousand island
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Ukraine Black SeaClear Water
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