Dive sites: wall

Costa RicaPelagic

Bat Islands (Islas Murciélago)

Guanacaste and the North Pacific

15 to 35 mAdvancedFrom June to October

BoatCurrent: strongVisibility 5 to 27 m

The Bat Islands are an archipelago in Santa Rosa National Park, 45 minutes by RIB from Playa Flamingo.

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.

MaldivesReef

Banana Reef

Malé atolls

5 to 30 mOpen WaterFrom December to April

BoatCurrent: variableVisibility 20 to 30 m

Banana Reef is a banana-shaped reef 20 minutes by speedboat from Malé and one of the first dive sites in the Maldives.

The flat, wooded island of Balicasag on the horizon, with its white lighthouse and fringe of pale sand, seen from a bangka whose white outriggers fill the foreground, under a cloudless blue sky.

PhilippinesReef

Balicasag Island

Visayas: Cebu, Bohol and Negros

5 to 40 mOpen WaterFrom January to May

BoatCurrent: variableVisibility 10 to 30 m

Balicasag is an islet ten kilometers from Panglao, in Bohol, ringed by a plateau from 5 to 18 m and then a wall, and protected since 1985.

Two divers hovering in the deep blue above a garden of plate and table corals, surrounded by yellow and black striped sergeant majors, their bubbles rising toward the surface.

PhilippinesReef

Apo Island

Visayas: Cebu, Bohol and Negros

5 to 40 mOpen WaterFrom December to May

BoatCurrent: variableVisibility 10 to 20 m

Apo Island is a volcanic island south of Negros, where fishermen and Silliman University created one of the Philippines' first marine sanctuaries in 1982.