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United Arab Emirates Arabian Seaevery time i dived there i saw somehing new the visibility is between 5 and 10 m
more info about Diba including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Ghana Atlantic (South)All new dive locations. There are schools of whales and other things to discover. Charlys Extreme Diving is not only offering diving but also relaxing on the beach having a great party at our beach house. Information about our new website will be presented soon.
Be one of the first to discover the beauty of the Golf of Guinea.
more info about Gulf of Guinea including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Italy Tyrrhenian SeaOne of the best sites in Italy: we can find all that we find in the Mediterranean Sea but, above all, groupers and barracudas.
more info about Secca del Papa, Tavolara Island, Sardinia including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Puerto Rico Caribbean SeaTaino 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.
more info about Yellow Reef, Desecheo Island including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Italy Adriatic SeaLike Lembeh, but in Italy.
A lot of nudibranch, 20 species.
more info about Numana - Ancona including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Papua New Guinea Bismarck SeaA 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.
more info about Leslies including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Spain Mediterranean SeaOne of the best sites to dive in the south of Europe.
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Indonesia Asian SeaThe waters of Bunaken National Marine Park are extremely deep (1566 m in Manado Bay), clear (up to 35-40 m visibility), refreshing in temperature (27-29 C) and harbor some of the highest levels of biodiversity in the world. Pick any of group of interest - corals, fish, echinoderms or sponges - and the number of families, genera or species is bound to be astonishingly high. For example, 7 of the 8 species of giant clams that occur in the world, occur in Bunaken. The park has around 70 genera of corals compare this to a mere 10 in Hawaii. Although the exact number of fish species is unknown, it may be slightly higher than in the Philippines, where 2,500 species, or nearly 70 of all fish species known to the Indo-western Pacific, are found.
Oceanic currents may explain, in part, why Bunaken National Marine Park is such a treasure trove of biodiversity. Northeasternly currents generally sweep through the park but abundant counter currents and gyros related to lunar cycles are believed to be a trap for free swimming larvae. This is particularly true on the south side of the crescent-shaped Bunaken Island, lying in the heart of the park. A snorkler or diver in the vicinity of Lekuan or Fukui may spot over 33 species of butterfly fish and numerous types of groupers, damsels, wrasses and gobies. The gobies, smallish fish with bulging eyes and modified fins that allow them to attach to hard surfaces, are the most diverse but least known group of fish in the park.
Biologists believe that the abundance of hard corals is crucial in maintaining the high levels of diversity in the park. Hard corals are the architects of the reefs, without them, numerous marine organisms would be homeless and hungry. Many species of fish are closely associated with particular types of corals (folious, branching, massives, etc.) for shelter and egg-laying. Others, like the enormous Bumphead Parrotfish, Balbometopon muricatum, are coralivores and depend on hard corals for their sustenance. Bony mouth parts fused into an impressive beak allow these gregarious fish to crunch corals like roasted peanuts.
Good dive site for all divers. Wall dives and shallow reefs with good visibility of 20-30m. Coelacanths are found here!
more info about Bunaken National Park including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Colombia Caribbean SeaCasa Camargo, es una pared vertical ubicada en el Parque Tayrona, a 25 minutos de Taganga, que tiene dos (2) opciones de buceo:
a. El Cantil: Hay un bajo de coral a unos 5 metros de profundidad, seguido de una pared de coarles, esponjas y demas, bien colonizada, que nos lleva hasta 20 metros.
b. Una inmersión tranquila bajando hasta 20 metros de profundidad, nos hace descubrir corales de los más grandes (hasta 4 metros de altura). Buceo nocturno muy bonito.
Informes:
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Colombia Caribbean SeaEl Bajo Bushnell, localizado a 45 minutos en la lancha al oeste de Isla Fuerte, es una plataforma de coral, con profundidades que van hasta los 100 pies y variados tipos de formaciones coralinas. Su estado de conservación es excelente. El agua es cristalina la mayor parte del año, a través de donde se pueden ver praderas marinas repartidas por todo el perímetro. Se bucea en un medio de extraordinaria belleza, donde se pueden apreciar 175 especies diferentes, desde corales pétreos, octoráles esponjas, algas y toda la variedad de peces del caribe, desde el Caballito de Mar hasta el Tiburón Ballena.
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Trinidad and TobagoWe were diving for two weeks every single day, did dives on both ends of the island, but, couldn't get enough of Diver's Dream, we dove with Manta Dive on Pigeon Point Road, and they were just fantastic!! Very friendly and well organized... I prefer diving on the southern end, off Crown Point, however.
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Indonesia Indian Ocean----- SCUBA Dive In Resort Bali Indonesia Online Information -----
Geography and Climate
The island of Bali was shaped by the action of volcanoes, which produced the rich, black soils that nourish Bali's beautiful and productive rice paddies.
Just 8-9 south of the equator, Bali is always warm-a mean 27.2 C, although the highlands are about 6 C cooler. Humidity is an almost constant 75 persent. Most of Bali's annual 2,500-3,000 millimeters of rain falls from November through March.
Bali's great strength is that it is NOT isolated. The island's reefs are ideally positioned to recieve a cosmopolitan assortment of plankton and juvenile animals from the Indonesia Throughflow, a massive flow of water that passes from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean. Because of this combination, perhaps Bali is just to familiar to be considered a great diving area.
Dive Sites
There are five main areas for diving in Bali, working counter clockwise around the island from the airport in the south: Nusa Dua and Sanur; Nusa Penida; Candi Dasa (Padang Bai, Gili Mimpang, Gili Tepekong); Amed/Cemeluk and Tulamben; Pemutaran, Menjangan and Gilimanuk ( Secret Bay). Each area offers dive locations for novice, intermediate and advanced divers. At most sites, divers can plan a dive to match their degree of experience, and dives can be made around the year.
Depth of dives
The best diving lies between 5 and 40 meters.
Marine Life
The varied inhabitants of Bali's reefs. " different fields, different grasshoppers."
Visibility
Variable, 5-15 m, exceeds 30 m.
Water Temperature
Normally 26 - 27 C (78 - 80 F). During July and August, the temperature drops to 21 C (70 F)
High seasons
July-August and around Christmas and New Year.
Highlights
The Liberty Wreck 120 meters long Tulamben,
Wooden anker wreck, cave and craggy wall Menjangan,
Pelagics, and between the months of August - November Mola-Mola (Sunfish) at Nusa Penida,
Rare critters muck diving at Secret Bay/Gilimanuk
Canyon at Gili Tepekong/Cand Dasa
Other
Very tricky current, strong surge, uncomfortably cold in some dive sites.
more info about Bali Dived Site In General including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Oman Indian OceanI have been diving i Oman for a few years now, both North and South, but my favourite dive will always be the aquarium. I have always tried to end the weekends diving with a visit to the aquarium, its an easy shore dive, entering in a small rocky gully sinking down onto table coral where we find all sorts of small marine life, usually lobsters hiding in the coral and puffer fish hanging around. we then make our way across the bay to the aquarium itself.It starts off with a small rocky reef, loads of small fish, clown fish in their anemones, scorpion fish spread around, you can usually see rays and turtles here. moving towards the mouth of the bay you pass through the main coral which is covered with small marine life and for a while we had our own nurse shark, which hid amongst the coral, then pass on to the wall keeping an eye out for lion fish, stingrays normally settled on the bottom, depending on air consumption you can exit the bay to check out bigger reefs, but then turn around to pass back through the bay again, I will always love this dive. Thi is a very good dive site to train on, the middle of the bay has a flat bottom with sand, after carrying out your training you can show students lots of life and it can all be contained withing the bay.
Only problem with the site is it is 80 km from Salalah, the nearest big town and we always took all our own equipment and compressors, camping on the beach for weekends and longer when there are holidays.
The dive is also a good snorkelling site.
more info about The Aquarium, Dhofar including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Colombia Pacific THIS IS HARDCORE SCUBA DIVING more info about Malpelo Island including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Colombia Caribbean SeaGR8
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Spain Atlantic (South)wreckship on sand bottom.
you can see sharks, morays, octopus, red coral, stingrays, bogues, barracudas,... abound.
This wreck was sinked in 1903. still we can find personal objets (plates, bottles, spoons, knifes, ... )
the security was tangible every moment: 5 meters deep reserve tank, oxygen, First Aid Kit, VHF transmitter and mobile telephone. the divemaster has a ponnytank (extra tank) with him and 2 second stage.
we dive with SeaDive (http://www.subcanaria.com)
more info about CARBONERO - Tenerife- Canary islands including maps, reviews, and ratings...
Spain Atlantic (South)this point is adrenaline!! ... don´t hesitate!!! :D
on boat 5 minutes. descending by anchor line. a sand bottom with garden eels. The reef ends at vertical wall descending at 35- 40 mts deep. in this wall you can see morays, stingrays, tunas, barracudas, a lot of groupers, giants anaemones, octopus, parrotfish, jackfish, different kind of sharks, black and red coral... abound..
the security was tangible every moment: 5 meters deep reserve tank, oxygen, First Aid Kit, VHF transmitter and mobile telephone. the divemaster has a ponnytank (extra tank) with him and 2 second stage.
we dive with SeaDive (http://www.subcanaria.com)
indeed, is very dep but .. highly recomended.
more info about Devil's reef - Tenerife- Canary islands including maps, reviews, and ratings...
BahamasAll sorts of opportunities for photograhpy. Great shark dive, lots of life, both big and small.
more info about South shore of Grand Bahama including maps, reviews, and ratings...
United Kingdom AtlanticA bit of a scramble over large shingle wherever you get in. Most divers prefer the shelter at the Portland end. The beach slope quickly (making it tricky to get back onto when you're tired at the end of a dive and the swell pulls you back. It's a bit indignified crawling out on your kneees but at least you know that everyone who has tried managed it!
The marine life ranges from dogfish (yes, they're sharks) to dustbin sized Rhizostoma Pulmo Jellyfish.
There are wrecks too. Park in the Portland rd big car park.
Excellent range of British marine life, wreck, what more do you want!
more info about Chesil Beach including maps, reviews, and ratings...
PortugalLearn to dive at a nice and comfortable place, warm and clear water, beautiful divesites.
about DIVING MADEIRA website The fascinating wreck of the "Bowbelle", see some pictures on our web site.
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