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Diving by country

One country, one page: its dive sites, its season, its budget, how to get there and where to stay.

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

The head and back of a whale shark covered in white dots, seen from the side just below the surface, in bright blue water

Tanzania

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

Maldives

A school of scalloped hammerheads in silhouette in blue-green water, seen from below, about twenty animals

Costa Rica

A mobula ray passes between divers holding the boat's line, in the deep blue of Princess Alice Bank

Azores

Egypt by area

The upright bow of the Giannis D, covered in growth, with three divers at the foot of the wreck in blue water full of bubbles

Central Red Sea, Egypt

The broken stern of the Thistlegorm rising at an angle in the blue, a diver on the right

Northern Red Sea, Egypt

An oceanic whitetip shark with white-edged fins swims below the surface, surrounded by striped pilot fish

Southern Red Sea, Egypt

Indonesia by area

A manta ray banks above a reef, one wing raised and its mouth open, in blue-green water at Manta Bay, Nusa Penida

Bali and Nusa Penida

A manta ray, cephalic lobes unfurled and mouth open, glides toward the camera above a reef, in green, plankton-rich water at Manta Point

Komodo

Pink, orange and red soft corals clinging to a wall, in turquoise water where small fish swim, in the Passage between Gam and Waigeo

Raja Ampat

A vertical wall covered in sponges and black corals with golden branches, a brown feather star in the center, and an underwater photographer silhouetted against sunlit blue water.

Sulawesi: Bunaken and Lembeh

Thailand by area

A wall of silvery bigeye trevallies rises toward the surface above a diver with green fins, in the blue of Richelieu Rock

Andaman Sea: Similan, Surin and Lanta

Close-up of an anemone with green, purple-tipped tentacles, nestled in the orange-red folds of its column, approached from the right by a pink anemonefish with a white stripe

Gulf of Thailand: Koh Tao

France by area

A diver in a yellow and black hood and a blue mask measures the stipe of a kelp with a ruler, inside a white tube frame set on a rock covered in pink algae, in the middle of a forest of tall kelp in green water.

Brittany and the Atlantic coast

A sea turtle with a narrow, hooked beak swims over sand and branching coral in the clear, shallow water of the lagoon

French Indian Ocean: Réunion and Mayotte

A tight school of silver barracuda with dark bars swims from left to right above a rocky slope covered in green algae, in blue water lit from the surface.

French Mediterranean: Riviera, Provence and Corsica

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

French Polynesia

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

French West Indies: Guadeloupe and Martinique

An eagle ray seen from above, its black back speckled with pale spots and its long thin tail, glides over a bottom of sand and coral in turquoise water

New Caledonia

Philippines by area

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

Palawan

Thousands of silver sardines in a tight school in blue water, against the wall where a red brain coral stands out.

Visayas: Cebu, Bohol and Negros

Mexico by area

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

Revillagigedo Islands (Socorro)

A California sea lion swimming side-on in green water, its body streamlined, white whiskers, above a rocky bottom where small fish pass

Sea of Cortez: La Paz and Cabo Pulmo

The silhouette of a diver heading down head-first toward the Palancar Gardens reef, the sun backlit at the surface, sea fans on the bottom

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

Tanzania by area

The head and back of a whale shark covered in white dots, seen from the side just below the surface, in bright blue water

Mafia Island

A sea anemone with raised white tentacles and a pink base, with a blurred diver in yellow fins in the background, in the Njao channel

Pemba

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

Zanzibar

Maldives by area

A whale shark seen head-on, mouth half open, gray back spotted with white, in turquoise water full of bubbles

Ari and Rasdhoo atolls

Seen from the front, a diver with arms spread glides above a thick school of blue-striped yellow snappers covering the reef, in deep blue water.

Malé atolls

Costa Rica by area

Cocos Island backlit at sunset, with a liveaboard at anchor on the right and a calm sea

Cocos Island

An oceanic manta, wings spread, gliding head-on toward a diver who lights it with a torch, a remora on its black back with white shoulders and bubbles rising in the blue.

Guanacaste and the North Pacific

A plunging view framed by palm fronds: a headland covered in rainforest drops into the sea, waves break white on black rocks and a distant coast stands out on the horizon under a blue sky.

South Pacific: Osa and Caño Island

Azores by area

A streamlined blue shark swims below the surface with two striped pilot fish, at Condor Bank

Pico and Faial

A mobula ray seen from the side swims to the left, olive green back and white belly, two remoras stuck under its body and its sickle-shaped wing dipping down, in clear blue water

Santa Maria