Dive sites: Hammerhead
Hammerhead dive sites — depth, conditions, and required training level.
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Colombia
1Costa Rica
2Bajo Alcyone
Puntarenas · Cocos Island · Costa Rica
An isolated seamount off Cocos Island where hundreds of hammerheads school overhead in one of diving's most iconic spectacles.
Cano Island
Drake Bay · Osa Peninsula · Costa Rica
A biological reserve island off Costa Rica's wild Osa Peninsula, where warm Pacific currents deliver hammerhead sharks, whale sharks, and massive schools of fish to rocky reefs of exceptional health.
Ecuador
2Gordon Rocks
Puerto Ayora · Galapagos Islands · Ecuador
An extinct volcanic crater off Santa Cruz where schools of hammerheads circle a sandy amphitheatre swept by powerful currents.
Wolf Island
Puerto Ayora · Galapagos Islands · Ecuador
A remote Galapagos outpost where massive hammerhead schools, whale sharks, and Galapagos sharks converge at volcanic pinnacles.
Egypt
1Fiji
2Wakaya Passage
Suva · Lomaiviti Group · Fiji
A nutrient-rich channel between Wakaya and Makogai islands where manta rays aggregate in large numbers and hammerhead sharks patrol the deeper reaches of the passage during the cooler months.
Namena Marine Reserve
Savusavu · Namena Barrier Reef · Fiji
Fiji's largest marine protected area where pristine coral pinnacles, schooling hammerheads, and vibrant soft coral gardens create world-class reef diving.
French Polynesia
1Indonesia
4Banda Api Volcano Dive
Banda Naira · Maluku · Indonesia
A dramatic underwater volcanic wall off Banda Api's cone where the 1988 lava flow created a surreal landscape of black basalt colonized by vibrant hard corals, with hammerhead sharks cruising the deep blue beyond.
Pisang Island
Ambon · Maluku · Indonesia
A remote volcanic islet in the Banda Sea where sheer walls plunge into deep blue water, attracting hammerhead sharks, vast pelagic schools, and pristine hard coral growth untouched by mass tourism.
Pulau Ai South Wall
Banda Neira · Maluku · Indonesia
A sheer coral wall on the southern exposure of Pulau Ai in the Banda Islands, where nutrient-rich Banda Sea currents deliver exceptional soft coral growth, schooling pelagics, and hammerhead shark encounters along a pristine vertical drop.
Belongas Bay
Kuta Lombok · West Nusa Tenggara · Indonesia
A wild bay on Lombok's remote southwest coast where powerful currents sweep past volcanic pinnacles, drawing hammerhead sharks, mobula rays, and massive schools of pelagics into one of Indonesia's most exhilarating drift dives.
Japan
2Yonaguni Monument
Yonaguni · Okinawa Prefecture · Japan
A mysterious underwater rock formation off Japan's westernmost island featuring terraced platforms, sharp right-angled edges, and channel-like passages that have sparked decades of debate over natural versus man-made origins.
Izu Oceanic Park
Ito · Shizuoka Prefecture · Japan
A sheltered volcanic rock reef on the eastern coast of the Izu Peninsula offering year-round diving with seasonal hammerhead shark sightings, vast schools of jack, and one of Japan's most accessible dive training facilities.
Malaysia
1Maldives
1Nicaragua
1Philippines
1Seychelles
1South Africa
1Sudan
2Sanganeb Reef
Port Sudan · Red Sea State · Sudan
The only atoll in the Red Sea, a UNESCO World Heritage site with sheer walls dropping 800 metres, schooling hammerheads, and the richest soft coral displays in the region.
Sha'ab Rumi
Port Sudan · Red Sea State · Sudan
Jacques Cousteau's legendary underwater habitat site on a remote Sudanese reef where the remains of Conshelf II sit among pristine coral walls patrolled by schooling hammerheads, grey reef sharks, and enormous pelagics in Red Sea waters virtually untouched by mass tourism.