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United Kingdom South China SeaDive site is a shallow lagoon (max depth 12m) in a sheltered sandy bay. There is normally no current and the area is roped off for snorkelers to use, so it's a popular site with lots of boat traffic and for that reason care needs to be taken if diving on the deeper outside edge of the lagoon. It has a large coral reef with densely packed coral heads fringing the lagoon. Experienced divers will probably want to dive along the fringing edge and avoid the shallower snorkeling areas.
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Malaysia South China SeaThe site consists of a small circular group of rocks at the southern end of the lighthouse reef. Currents can be strong at time and we experienced thermoclines with deteriorating visibility at the deepest parts. Sea temp in May 29c
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Malaysia South China SeaThe site consists of a collection of very large granite boulders, the top of which is about 7m, and the bottom is in 21m. Between the boulders there are swim throughs, and lots of soft corals and sea fans. A large variety of nudibranchs can be found on the corals and sponges over the rocks. Sea Temp in May 29c
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website more info about Three Brothers (Terumbu Tiga), Perhentian Besar including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Malaysia South China SeaShallow sandy area with lots of small soft corals in a depth of 12 to 14 metres. Usually little to no current. The area is a nursery for small fish and the soft corals are home to numerous small crabs, so there is lots of macro life. Sea Temp in May 29c
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website more info about Near Romantic Beach, Perhentian Kecil including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Netherlands Antilles Caribbean SeaViz off Klein Bonaire is typically better than the shore dives off Bonaire. Found this around 45 feet. Diving with Buddy Dive on the Red Tide.
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Malaysia South China SeaMuck dive site with sandy bottom at depth of 24 metres. Current can be strong so it's best done on slack water. Visibility can be poor < 3 metres sometimes. Small soft corals can be found in the sand and these are shelter and home to seahorses, decorator crabs, octopuses (including Blue Ring) and porcelain crabs. Sea Temp in May 29c
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website more info about Petani Drift, Perhentian Kecil including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Maldives Indian Oceanperfect place for pros and begginers
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United States Caribbean SeaGreat local Dive site, plenty of snapper and grouper to see. During whale season you might get lucky and have a Humpback Whale swim over you.
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SwitzerlandMost probably the best river dives in Europe....
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Indonesia Bali SeaThis was at a dive site called Hann?s Reef. A site thats great for macro!
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Thailand Andaman SeaBeautiful divesite northwest of Phi Phi Ley between Palong and Maya Bay. Reef slope with boulders and partly wall, partly covered with dendronephtya, sea fans and barrel sponges. Interesting macro life like seahorses, frogfish, ghost pipe fish, shrimpfish, pipefish. Hawksbill turtles are most of the time around, occasionally leopard and blacktip reef sharks.
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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.
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Czech RepublicIt is a very small and shallow (9 meters) privatly owned locality.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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