Dive sites: shore dive

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.

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

PhilippinesShore dive

Moalboal sardine run

Visayas: Cebu, Bohol and Negros

3 to 20 mOpen WaterFrom November to May

ShoreCurrent: lightVisibility 15 to 30 m

The Moalboal sardine run gathers several million fish into a shifting curtain, 20 or 30 m from Panagsama Beach.

Close-up of an orange hairy frogfish striped with brown and covered in filaments, its small eye gleaming and mouth half open, against a black background.

IndonesiaReef

Lembeh Strait

Sulawesi: Bunaken and Lembeh

5 to 25 mOpen WaterFrom March to November

BoatCurrent: lightVisibility 10 to 20 m

The Lembeh Strait, between Sulawesi and Lembeh Island, is the capital of muck diving on black volcanic sand, with more than sixty sites.

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

EgyptShore dive

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.

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

FranceReef

Cap La Houssaye (Réunion)

French Indian Ocean: Réunion and Mayotte

4 to 18 mTry diveFrom April to May and from July to December

BoatCurrent: lightVisibility good, best in the morning when the sea is calm

Cap La Houssaye, a basalt point north of Saint-Gilles harbor, marks the northern edge of the Réunion Marine Nature Reserve.