The most beautiful dive sites are the ones we thought of when we wanted to learn to dive. Scuba diving was actually a way to get to know the wonderful place we had always dreamed of. Diving is just a way, a sure way to get to and see these beautiful places.
However, it is difficult to have a common consensus on which places are the best ones. After all, divers just like people are different, different places consider the most beautiful dive sites, so when asked what are the best dive sites in the world? Each diver may answer a little differently but, like the world’s greatest capitals or the world’s greatest cathedrals, the diving community has chosen and rated a certain place as the best.
When one buys a dive guide titled “10 or 100 best dive sites” it is very common to see certain places and areas of the entourage in the forefront. Certain names will recur regardless of where the book was written. These most beautiful dive sites will usually be places where there are amazing rock formations underwater often overgrown with reefs. These will be impressive wreck sites or large individual wrecks and places where you can admire large sea creatures or, on the other hand, very small, very specific creatures, the viewing of which is especially beloved by photographers who specialize in so-called macro photography.
Amazing rock formations
Focusing on the amazing underwater rock formations these are usually the so-called Blue Hole that is places where the seabed has sunk over a massive cave creating a huge well sometimes connected to the open sea such such a formation scientifically it is called singhol is a place where We simply have to deal with amazing views such great blues are in dachaba in Egypt and Belize much smaller Blue Holi is on Gozo in Malta.
Amazing large underwater creatures
Something amazing is the opportunity to admire great sea creatures underwater. Diving creates conditions for us to admire sometimes is very close to large creatures in their natural environment, which actually does not happen in the case of admiring large animals in the wild but on land nature if it is not some kind of artificial fed Place where we lure some there creatures even In reserves then the chance to see grease have a distance powerful creature is very small underwater we have the opportunity to admire powerful fish such as manta rays or whale sharks and sometimes marine mammals such as dolphins or whales.
Best wrecking sites
- Truk
- Scapa Flow
- Coron
- Vis
- Bikini Atoll
The next places that focus divers’ attention are large wreck sites, that is, areas where for some reason a lot of ships sank, including often warships an amazing site of this type is Skapa Flow Bay in the Orkney Islands or islands above Scotland north of Scotland another such site is Laguna Truk in Micronesia where a Japanese fleet from World War II is sunk a similar although perhaps less spectacular site is Koron Bay in the Philippines where a Japanese fleet including a huge tanker also lies underwater.
The last of the amazing wreck dive sites is the Bikini Atoll. Bikini Atoll is located in a very remote part of Micronesia and is actually very difficult to visit, a long trip, huge costs, so it’s a legendary place where very few divers have been, but the wrecks lying there are definitely worth the trip someday.
Between 1948 and 1958, the United States conducted 23 nuclear tests there, including planned nuclear explosions that tested the resilience of warships by putting there old U.S. ships and Japanese ships captured during World War II.
Great single dive sites
Amazing single dive sites that attract divers from all over the world are certainly the island of Sipadan near Borneo; the Zenobia wreck in Cyprus or the wreck of the B17 plane near the island of Vis in Croatia.
Amazing macro photography
A separate species of dive sites are places where there are a lot of very small, very interesting creatures on the reef, the viewing and immortalization of which is beloved by underwater photographers engaged in so-called macro photography, i.e. taking pictures of creatures that are only a few dozen millimeters long, here leading all kinds of species of seahorses.
Illes Medes
An under-appreciated or perhaps just less-visited dive site is the amazing Islas Medes archipelago opposite L’Estartid in Spain. The site lies about 80 kilometers beyond the French-Spanish border even before Barcelona. Here the Pyrenees reach the sea, there are amazing cliffs on the main land and opposite the town of L’Estartid is a small – pocket archipelago that is a strict marine reserve but you can dive there. The site shows what the Mediterranean sea might have looked like if it were not for fishing, crossbow hunting and such human activities. In the crevices of the rocks in the archipelago there is an incredible amount of fish sea creatures, including some that are truly rare in the Mediterranean. You can find moray eels there, as well as literally several meters deep red coral – that precious red coral from which jewelry is made.
Top 10 dive sites
- Blue Hole Belize (Belize)
- Blue Hole Dahab (Egypt)
- Canyon Dahab (Egypt)
- Illes Medes (Spain)
- Scapa Flow (Orkney Islands)
- Wreck of the B-17 island of Vis (Croatia)
- Coron Bay – tanker (Philippines)
- Laguna Truk (Micronesia)
- Laguna Bikini (Micronesia)
- Cocos Island (Costa Rica)
