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The best dive sites all around the world

Depth, level, season, access and budget: checked guides to choose where to dive, and when.

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Everything you need to know before you book your dive

Depth, required level, current, visibility, the best months, how to get there, the budget, and a calendar of the marine life you meet there. Checked and dated facts, real photos with their credits.

Must-sees

A bluespotted ribbontail ray resting on the sand under a coral overhang, in turquoise water

Mnemba Atoll

2 to 30 mOpen WaterFrom July to October and from December to February

BoatCurrent: variableVisibility 15 to 30 m

A diver in a black wetsuit with a yellow tank, seen from behind, faces a dusky grouper swimming toward him in open blue water, above algae-covered rocks and among dozens of small fish.

La Gabinière (Port-Cros)

French Mediterranean: Riviera, Provence and Corsica

10 to 45 mAdvancedFrom June to October

BoatCurrent: strongVisibility good in calm seas, reduced by east winds

The Liberty's hull covered in pink and brown encrusting corals, a blue-ringed angelfish along the plating and yellow butterflyfish in the blue

IndonesiaShore dive

USAT Liberty wreck

Bali and Nusa Penida

5 to 30 mOpen WaterFrom April to November

ShoreCurrent: lightVisibility 10 to 20 m

A garden of hard corals and fire coral a few meters below the surface, a butterflyfish in the foreground

Shark and Yolanda Reef, Ras Mohammed

Northern Red Sea, Egypt

5 to 40 mAdvancedFrom April to November

BoatCurrent: variableVisibility 25 to 40 m

A spotted whale shark seen head-on swimming in the deep blue, surrounded by about ten divers whose bubbles rise toward the surface.

PhilippinesPelagic

Tubbataha Reef

5 to 40 mAdvancedFrom April to May

LiveaboardCurrent: strongVisibility 20 to 40 m

A wall of pink soft corals and an orange sea fan at Richelieu Rock, in front of a cloud of glassfish and a school of yellowtail fusiliers in the blue

ThailandPelagic

Richelieu Rock

Andaman Sea: Similan, Surin and Lanta

5 to 35 mAdvancedFrom November to April

LiveaboardCurrent: strongVisibility 10 to 35 m

The east eye of Dos Ojos Cenote: a limestone vault bristling with stalactites above turquoise water, a wooden platform on the left and swimmers in the background

MexicoCave or cenote

Dos Ojos Cenote

Yucatán and the Caribbean: Cozumel, cenotes, Playa del Carmen

5 to 10 mOpen WaterFrom November to August

ShoreCurrent: lightVisibility 30 m and beyond, limited by the light

A white-spotted whale shark swims below three snorkelers at the surface, in dark blue water

MaldivesPelagic

South Ari Atoll (Maamigili)

Ari and Rasdhoo atolls

5 to 30 mOpen WaterFrom September to April

BoatCurrent: moderateVisibility 15 to 30 m

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The forward superstructure of the Thistlegorm covered in hard corals, seen from the deck

Egypt

A diver in a black wetsuit facing the camera, framed by red sea fans and orange soft corals where small anthias swim, against blue water.

Indonesia

A wall of pink soft corals and an orange sea fan at Richelieu Rock, in front of a cloud of glassfish and a school of yellowtail fusiliers in the blue

Thailand

A diver in a black wetsuit with a yellow tank, seen from behind, faces a dusky grouper swimming toward him in open blue water, above algae-covered rocks and among dozens of small fish.

France

Philippines

Split view at the entrance to The Pit Cenote: the limestone vault and wooden staircase under the jungle at the top, two divers in deep blue water below

Mexico

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A green turtle grazes the seagrass on the sandy bottom near Marsa Alam, in the Red Sea

Green turtle

Found in 39 dive sitesHarmless

The green turtle is the largest of the hard-shelled sea turtles, with a 115-centimeter shell and 80 to 130 kg on average.

Bigeye trevally

Caranx sexfasciatus

Found in 37 dive sitesHarmless

The bigeye trevally is a silvery jack with a very large eye that spends the day in tight schools whose tornadoes wrap around divers.

A hawksbill turtle swims along a wall above pink soft corals, the deep blue behind it

Hawksbill turtle

Eretmochelys imbricata

Found in 31 dive sitesHarmless

The hawksbill turtle searches the reef for sponges in every season, often a few meters from divers.

A great barracuda hanging vertically along the Elphinstone wall, in the middle of a cloud of small fish

Great barracuda

Sphyraena barracuda

Found in 25 dive sitesTake care

The great barracuda is a streamlined predator, 1.40 meters on average and up to 2 meters, that hunts by ambush.

A gray reef shark swims in the blue amid a school of black and white bannerfish

Gray reef shark

Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos

Found in 24 dive sitesTake care

The gray reef shark patrols in groups at the edge of the plateaus, facing the current, and approaches divers who stay still.

A Napoleon wrasse seen from the side, its head covered in a maze of lines and its flanks striped with fine vertical lines, in front of a reef

Napoleon wrasse

Cheilinus undulatus

Found in 24 dive sitesHarmless

The Napoleon wrasse often stays on the same reef and comes to check out divers up close.

A whitetip reef shark resting on the sand at the foot of a rock wall, mouth half open, the tip of its first dorsal fin bright white

Whitetip reef shark

Triaenodon obesus

Found in 21 dive sitesTake care

The whitetip reef shark rarely exceeds 1.60 meters and lives in caves; you recognize it by the white tips of its dorsal fin and tail.

A lionfish facing the camera, striped fins spread, above a coral against a dark background

Lionfish

Found in 19 dive sitesCan injure

The lionfish is a 40-centimeter scorpionfish bristling with venomous spines, found in the shallows on Red Sea and Indian Ocean reefs.