Dive sites: wall

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.

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...

A reef in the Cozumel park: a purple azure vase sponge in the foreground, a barrel sponge, a sea fan and small blue fish in bright blue water

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Santa Rosa Wall

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

15 to 35 mAdvancedFrom November to July

BoatCurrent: strongVisibility 25 to 35 m

Santa Rosa Wall is the classic Cozumel wall: a sand plateau at 15 meters tips over into the blue, and the current turns every dive into a drift.

Aerial view of a dark blue S-shaped channel winding between the turquoise flats of the barrier reef, with a few small white boats in the pass

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S Pass (Mayotte)

French Indian Ocean: Réunion and Mayotte

5 to 60 mOpen WaterFrom May to October

BoatCurrent: variableVisibility no figure available, varies with the tide

The S Pass, an old riverbed, cuts 2 to 4 km through Mayotte's eastern barrier reef, inside the Marine Nature Park.

Drone view of Roca Partida: a bird-whitened rock split into two peaks, pounded by a deep blue sea under a blue sky dotted with clouds

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Roca Partida

Revillagigedo Islands (Socorro)

10 to 40 mAdvancedFrom November to May

LiveaboardCurrent: strongVisibility 25 to 40 m

Roca Partida is a rock split into two peaks, alone in the Pacific about a hundred kilometers from Socorro, with walls that drop below 40 meters.

MaldivesPelagic

Rasdhoo Madivaru

Ari and Rasdhoo atolls

5 to 30 mAdvancedFrom December to April

BoatCurrent: strongVisibility 15 to 30 m

Rasdhoo Madivaru is the outer reef of Madivaru islet, and the site in the Maldives with the most scalloped hammerhead sightings over the year.

Aerial view of Pescador Island, a rock covered in green vegetation with its white lighthouse, surrounded by about ten dive bancas on a dark blue sea

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Pescador Island

Visayas: Cebu, Bohol and Negros

5 to 40 mOpen WaterFrom November to May

BoatCurrent: variableVisibility 10 to 40 m

Pescador Island is a limestone islet 4 km off Panagsama Beach, ringed by a plateau and then walls that plunge beyond 60 m.

A wall of fire coral and hard corals with anthias and damselfish, sunlight shining through the surface

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Panorama Reef

Central Red Sea, Egypt

12 to 45 mExperiencedFrom March to November

BoatCurrent: variableVisibility 20 to 30 m

Panorama Reef is the largest reef off Safaga, a long wall whose sides drop to 400 meters.

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

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Palancar Reef

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

6 to 34 mOpen WaterFrom November to July

BoatCurrent: variableVisibility 25 to 35 m

Palancar Reef is a five-kilometer reef off southwest Cozumel, cut into canyons, tunnels and pinnacles that you explore on a drift dive, from 6 to 34 meters.