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Cave or cenote Pass Pelagic Reef Shore dive Wall Wreck See the map

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

USAT Liberty wreck

5 to 30 mOpen WaterFrom April to November

ShoreCurrent: lightVisibility 10 to 20 m

The USAT Liberty is a 125 m American cargo ship, torpedoed in 1942 and beached at Tulamben, then pushed into the sea by the eruption of Mount Agung in 1963.

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

Palawan

5 to 40 mAdvancedFrom April to May

LiveaboardCurrent: strongVisibility 20 to 40 m

Tubbataha Reef brings together two atolls 150 km off Palawan, in the open Sulu Sea.

A diver just above a coral bottom watches two sharks pass very close to him, above a school of gray fish with yellow tails, in deep blue water

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Tiputa Pass (Rangiroa)

French Polynesia

14 to 60 mAdvancedJune and from December to March

BoatCurrent: strongVisibility good on an incoming current, poor in the pass on an outgoing current

Tiputa Pass links the Rangiroa lagoon to the ocean over 950 m, in 14 to 60 m of water, less than 10 minutes by boat from the Avatoru dive centers.

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

MexicoCave or cenote

The Pit Cenote

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

10 to 40 mAdvancedFrom November to August

ShoreCurrent: lightVisibility 30 m and more, zero inside the cloud

The Pit is a 119-meter shaft in the jungle of Dos Ojos Park, near Tulum.

A cluster of pink and yellow soft corals covered in orange anthias, on a Red Sea reef

EgyptCave or cenote

St. John's and Fury Shoals

Southern Red Sea, Egypt

5 to 40 mOpen WaterFrom April to November

LiveaboardCurrent: variableVisibility 25 to 40 m

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Two divers swim along the deck of the Thistlegorm beside a passageway, in milky blue water

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SS Thistlegorm

Northern Red Sea, Egypt

18 to 32 mAdvancedFrom April to November

BoatCurrent: strongVisibility 15 to 25 m

The Thistlegorm is a British cargo ship sunk in October 1941 with its trucks, motorcycles and locomotives; it sits almost upright in 30 meters of water in the northern Red Sea.

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

South Ari Atoll has been a marine protected area since 2009, and whale sharks are seen there all year along the outer reef.

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

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Shark and Yolanda Reef, Ras Mohammed

Northern Red Sea, Egypt

5 to 40 mAdvancedFrom April to November

BoatCurrent: variableVisibility 25 to 40 m

Shark Reef and Yolanda Reef are two reefs at the southern tip of the Sinai: a wall that drops more than 700 meters and, on the plateau, the bathroom fittings cargo of a freighter...