Diving locations
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Most bodies of water can and are used for recreational diving including:
- seas and oceans - consist of salt water and a hugh variety of flora and fauna. Among the favorites are:
- Atlantic ocean - temperate diving
- Caribbean Sea - coral reefs and wide variety marine fauna
- Indian ocean - coral reefs and wide variety marine fauna
- Mediterranean Sea
- Pacific ocean - huge number of islands with coral reefs and wide variety marine fauna
- Red Sea - one of the best tropical marine life diving areas
- lakes - small lakes are often used for diver training. Large lakes have many features of seas including wrecks and a variety of marine life.
- caves - these are more adventurous and dangerous than normal diving. See cave diving.
- rivers - are often shallow, murky and with strong currents
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Africa
- Egypt
- Red Sea - fantastic tropical marine life
- Kenya - coral fringe reefs
- Mozambique - coral fringe reefs
- South Africa
- Sodwana Bay - sharks and other tropical marine life
- Sudan
- Red Sea - fantastic tropical marine life
- Tanzania - coral fringe reefs
Americas - North, Central and South
- Bahamas
- Belize
- The Cays - remote coral islands
- Bonaire
- Canada
- Coast of British Columbia
- Cuba
- Cayman Islands
- Martinique
- Mexico
- Cozumel 20.5° N 86.9° W
- Tobago
- United States
- Great Lakes - Ship wrecks
Australasia
- Australia
- Coral sea - Better than Great Barrier Reef
- Great Barrier Reef
- Ningaloo Reef - Whale shark early in the year.
- Fiji
- India
- Andaman Islands - many large fish due to isolated islands with little commercial fishing
- Indonesia - coral reefs and wide variety of marine fauna
- Japan
- Malaysia
- Layang-Layang - Hammer head sharks
- Sipadan Island - remote drop off, pelagics and nice coral reef fish
- Tioman Island - average reef diving
- Maldives - many small islands with tidal currents and great marine life
- New Zealand
- Great Barrier Island
- Poor Knight Islands - great sub-tropical marine life
- Bay of Islands
- Papua New Guinea - Untouched reefs, everything from muck to pelagics.
- Philippines
- Busuanga Island or Coron - site of WWII Japanese wrecks from operation to retake Philippines
- Solomon Islands
- Guadalcanal - site of American and Japanese wrecks
- Thailand
- Phuket - Simmilan islands, richelious rock, good reef diving.
- Pattaya
Pacific
- Cocos Island - Spectacular diving, pelagics, hammer head sharks.
- Galapagos Islands - Spectacular diving, pelagics, hammer head sharks.
- Micronesia
- Chuuk lagoon - site WWII Japanese wrecks of Operation Hailstorm
- Palau - Blue corner, famous for Gray reef sharks
- Yap - Famous for Manta rays
Europe
- Britain
- Scapa Flow - site the scuttling of the German Kaiserliche Marine High Seas Fleet of World War I
- English Channel - extremely busy international water way with hundreds of wrecks
- Cyprus
- France
- French Polynesia
- Greece
- Ireland
- Skellig Islands - clear water and great variety of marine fauna
- Italy
- Norway
- Portugal
- Maderia
- Spain
- Turkey
Other diving regions