Dive sites: wall

A gray reef shark swims above a wall covered in black coral bushes, with a second shark in the background in blue-green water

Fish Head (Mushimasmingili Thila)

LiveaboardCurrent: strongVisibility 15 to 30 m

Fish Head is a pinnacle in North Ari Atoll, with a plateau between 8 and 15 meters and sides that drop to 40 or 50 meters.

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

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Elphinstone Reef

Southern Red Sea, Egypt

12 to 40 mAdvancedFrom April to December

BoatCurrent: strongVisibility 20 to 40 m

Elphinstone Reef is a 300 meter reef in the open sea, 12 kilometers from Marsa Alam, with soft coral walls dropping into the blue.

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 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.