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Sugar wreck is an old sailing ship that sank while carrying sugar from the Caribbean.Many Yellow Stingrays, Southern Stingrays, pufferfish and lots of crabs live on this wreck. It is also known for it's resident Loggerhead Turtle that is frequently adorned by Remoras.

A 45 minute boat ride from Dili is East Timor's most pristine diving area. Around the island there is a variety of dive sites suitable for all levels. Visibility is always excellent and the bio-diversity and unspoilt nature of the coral reefs is simply fantastic. Hundreds of fish, with huge pelagics gathering, divers can drift past, carried along by a gentle current.

Pulau Pisang is a very remote island in Irian Jaya / Western Papua. This island is only rarely visited by liveaboards, usually as a stopover on the way from Misool to the Triton bay.The diving at Pulau Pisang was extremely rewarding. On the first dive we have seen as shoal of about 25 eagle rays, a manta ray, turtles, sharks, a group of good sized bumphead parrot fish and plenty of macro animals…

A Coral slope with many giant sea Fans and an abundance of fish life. This site has surprisingly good Coral with amazing colours. It is an excellent spot for locating the beautiful Pygmy Seahorses, Xeno Crabs (Xenocarcinus conicus/tuberculatus), Crabeyed Gobys and Mantis Shrimps.

This small island is best known for two massive coral heads which are said to be the largest off the Malay Peninsular. The larger of the mammouth Porites measures around 25 meters across at its base circumference. They are both over a hundred years old and the small caves around the bottom attract angel fish and moorish idols.

A research study in 1976 found Pulau Lima and its associated sea mounts as perhaps the most valuable entity within the Redang marine park as the reefs around this islet represented all environments found elsewhere in Redang, thereby providing a miniaturized view of the entire park's marine environment.Easily accessible from the resorts at Pasir Panjang, Pulau Lima translated means 5 islets.…

Inside a bay is a beautiful Coral and sponge garden in sheltered conditions. It offers a steep reef with good visibility. Nice corals, rare critters, and also some cleaning stations. The scenery itself is the highlight, though larger Rays (Devil and Eagle Rays) are seen from time to time, together with the shy Jawfish on a sand slope by the mooring.

Great dive site for novice and snorkelers. Schools of barracuda and tuna, groupers, rays, and all the tropical marine life.

On the east side of Pulau Pemanggil is an old unknown shipwreck. The wreck is covered of fish. Very nice dive.

Ferry Boat

Three wrecks in a row to explore and lots of sea life such as sting rays.Excellent for underwater photography.

Reef fish shoals among volcanic rocks.Note: The small skeleton wreck on the northwest side is not really interesting.

Fishing boat wreck

It is located in the east side of Malajon Island, alias Black Island due to its black rocks. The wreck is right in front of the beach next to a ship stranded on the shore.The 45m (148ft) long coastal ship of unknown origin lies upright on a sandy slope. The bow at 32m (105ft) and its stern at 20m (66ft). Marvellous, relatively shallow wreck diving for beginners, photographers and night divers with…

The Royal Mail Steamer "Rhone" is famous for its role movie "The Deep", with Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bissett. A great wreck dive with most parts still in tact. Great for all divers with depths from 6-24metres. Lots of corals and sea life such as barracuda, turtles, rays, angelfish, snappers and many more. One of the best dives on the British Virgin Islands.

Northwest of China Terjun are the islands of Pulau Kerengga Besar and Pulau Kerengga Kecil with a large expanse of shallow reef which is ideal for snorkellers as well as novice divers. If Cina Terjun is 'eel & lionfish city', Kerengga is 'ray city' as the shallow sandy bottom around it is home to a large number of rays and a few sharks. The diving around Kerengga Besar is in relatively calm and…

Great white gorgonians and sea fans. Also seen : Stingrays, Napoleon wrasse, two turtles and a goatfish.

Another series of underwater boulders just off the tip of the smaller outer islands. There are a couple of small caves and swimthroughs here and some nice black coral and sea fans. Nurse sharks may be spotted resting in the crevices here.

This dive site is into the marine park, and you can find some leatherback turtles in july!

A stone's throw away are the islands of Pulau Paku Besar and Pulau Paku Kecil which are popular snorkelling haunts but also have enough to keep divers happy.

Marine life is similar to Tokong Laut, with less coral life.

Good Beaches and snorkelling, healthy ìSTAG'S-HORN CORALî surrounding both beaches with easy access for snorkelling. New dive centre opening Feb / March 2010

Pulau Pinang off the southern coast has a rocky wall that drops down to around 50 meters.

Exploration diving! Untoughed reefs - great coral and many turtles.

Pulau Tiga (Three Islands) are 3 small islands close to Ambon.The sites are covered with mostly healthy coral and there is a lot of fish to be seen. There are red tooth trigger fish whereever you look and if there is some current there is also big fish.

This small island lies 13 kilometers west of Pulau Payar, it features steep rocky terrain down to 20 meters. Fish life is in abundance with barracuda, jacks, snappers and often nurse sharks. Tyre Reef is the most popular site here, there is also an anemone garden round the northern side of Segantang.

Exploration diving. Lot's of Hawksbill Turtles and great coral. Beware of tigersharks!

There is an exquisite array of hard corals at this site, all jostling for that optimum light capturing position on the reef. There are blue corals, soft leather corals and some large clams to be found here. The northeast tip of the island comprises mainly of large boulders dropping down to 24 meters with a cave at the bottom. Eagle rays and bowmouth shovelnose guitar sharks have been spotted at…

Situated inbetween Koror and Peleliu on the east coast, this island has some interesting diving. Because depths and currents are not an issue here, the area is ideal for beginners and photography. Ngerchong Outside is a gently sloping wall featuring a good variety of soft and hard coral as well as anemones. You can expect to encounter plentiful schooling fish as well as the occasional shark or…

Small caves and short walls. Rabbit fishes, Turtles, barracudas...

The top of the shoal is about 12m deep.

Wonderful Place! Millions of fish

This is a sunken plateau about 18m deep, lying in the south of Pamilacan, covered with corals. This dive site lies in the middle of the ocean and usually there is a very strong current. Plan your dive, jump in on the side the current comes from and then sweep over the plateau with it. We saw 8 snakes in total and - as a big surprise - a thresher shark (shark with a huge, long tail) on the edge of…

The Baffin Island Dive Safari is one of our favourite dive locations due to it’s variety of dives, along with the variety of wildlife we can encounter – From icebergs, drifting pack ice, seal holes, ice floe cracks, Arctic sea floor, diving black billed murres, to resting narwhal.. the variety and sheer scale of dive opportunities will never cease to amaze.Ne

lying off the mouth of Sematan River is a protected turtle sanctuary for green, hawksbill and olive ridley turtles.

El Mina is an Egyptian minesweeper sunk by Israeli fighters, while lying at anchor in 1969. The wreck lies in 30m on a rock sea bed. The current here can be strong from the north and the visibility poor. There is a large debris field which contains a lot of still active munitions, worth a look but for sure do not touch it. The wreck is only 70m long so there is plenty of time to explore everything…

Diving is possible all around Pig Island, but the southern side seems to offer the best all round diving. Depths here work down to about 18-25m, with a great sponge garden and a lot of rocky gullies and walls. This area is part of a reef running towards nearby Toothbrush Island. There is a good variety of fish life including snapper, tailor, bonito, bream, groper. In addition, you can often spot…

This is a dive site that runs along the west side of the Herradura island. Cuevitas means ìLittle Cavesî and in the many different ones itís easy to find white tip sharks and morray eels and swimming near the surface, barracudas and mantarays.

a good spot for crays,usaully toward the end of the season. The occasional due fish hangs around in the deeper caves. As the name suggests male australian sealions hang around on the island and the sorrounding waters, do NOT touch them, not only are they protected but they can get very violent when they get uneasy or pissed off. During mating season they can get very frisky and will become very…

Very interesting dive at the southeast side of Makronisos island. Small depth and a big variety in underwater life make this dive ideal for underwater photographers. It also offers us some very nice night dives.