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

An oceanic manta seen from below, its white belly marked with large black spots, gill slits visible, a trevally beneath it, the surface above

El Boiler

LiveaboardCurrent: variableVisibility 25 to 40 m, sometimes 15 to 20 m in November and December

El Boiler is a pinnacle off San Benedicto, in the Revillagigedo Islands, rising from 45 meters to a few meters below the surface.

A lionfish with brown stripes and long fins spread out in front of red soft corals and a yellow fire coral

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Dunraven wreck

Northern Red Sea, Egypt

18 to 30 mAdvancedFrom April to November

BoatCurrent: lightVisibility 15 to 25 m

The Dunraven is a British sail and steam ship that sank in 1876 on Sha'ab Mahmoud reef and was found again in 1977.

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

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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

Dos Ojos Cenote, 20 minutes north of Tulum, opens its two eyes of water onto 82 kilometers of flooded passages.

A scalloped hammerhead swimming toward the lens in blue water, two more hammerheads behind it and a cloud of small fish above the rocky bottom.

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Dirty Rock

Cocos Island

15 to 40 mAdvancedFrom June to November

LiveaboardCurrent: strongVisibility 15 to 30 m

Dirty Rock is a guano-whitened pinnacle off the north of Cocos Island, with walls that drop to 40 meters.

Aerial view of the long Le Diamant beach lined with turquoise water, Diamond Rock offshore and Morne Larcher, a green hill, on the right

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Diamond Rock

French West Indies: Guadeloupe and Martinique

5 to 40 mAdvancedFrom December to May

BoatCurrent: strongVisibility up to 25 m in the dry season, less from June to November

Diamond Rock is a 175 m volcanic pinnacle 2 km off the south coast of Martinique, in the current of the Saint Lucia Channel, where you dive a narrow crevice at around 20 m...

Two divers follow the outer wall of the Blue Hole, covered in hard corals and anthias, with the deep blue on the left

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Dahab Blue Hole

Northern Red Sea, Egypt

7 to 30 mAdvancedFrom March to November

ShoreCurrent: lightVisibility 20 to 30 m

The Blue Hole is a sinkhole more than 100 meters deep in the reef, twenty minutes north of Dahab, and you dive it from the beach.

The Daedalus lighthouse, a black and white striped tower standing on the reef, with its buildings and metal jetty, at sunset

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Daedalus Reef

Southern Red Sea, Egypt

5 to 40 mExperiencedFrom April to November

LiveaboardCurrent: strongVisibility 25 to 40 m

Daedalus Reef is an isolated reef in the middle of the Red Sea, 90 kilometers from Marsa Alam, rising from 550 meters deep to a lighthouse.

A gray sunfish with pale spots, seen three-quarters on in open blue water, its long dorsal and anal fins stretched out, surrounded by small reef fish.

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Crystal Bay

Bali and Nusa Penida

5 to 30 mAdvancedFrom July to October

BoatCurrent: strongVisibility 20 to 40 m

Crystal Bay is a bay on Nusa Penida, off Bali, where sunfish rise to be cleaned from August to October, in 18 to 20°C water.

A hawksbill turtle seen from above swims just over rocks covered in algae, brain corals, gorgonians and yellow tube sponges, in green-turquoise water

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Cousteau Reserve (Pigeon Islands)

French West Indies: Guadeloupe and Martinique

3 to 40 mTry diveFrom December to May

BoatCurrent: lightVisibility 10 to 30 m

The Cousteau Reserve surrounds two volcanic islets 1.5 km off Malendure beach in Guadeloupe and has been the marine core of the National Park since 2009.

In murky green-turquoise water, the dark silhouette of a wreck whose mast, covered in whip corals, rises on the right above an encrusted superstructure.

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Coron wrecks

Palawan

5 to 43 mAdvancedFrom December to April

BoatCurrent: variableVisibility 8 to 20 m, better before high tide

The Coron wrecks are a Japanese supply fleet sunk by American aircraft on September 24, 1944, in northern Palawan.