Best liveaboard Dive Sites in the World
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Australia
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wallOsprey Reef - North Horn
Cairns · Coral Sea · Australia
The Coral Sea's premier shark dive, where dozens of grey reef sharks, silvertip sharks, and hammerheads patrol a remote oceanic wall 350 kilometres from the mainland.
reefCod Hole
Cairns · Queensland · Australia
A legendary Great Barrier Reef site where enormous, friendly potato cod approach divers for interaction on the pristine Ribbon Reefs.
Ribbon Reefs - Steve's Bommie
Cairns · Queensland · Australia
A legendary coral pinnacle on Ribbon Reef No. 3, where dense soft corals, nudibranchs, and swirling fish schools create arguably the Great Barrier Reef's finest single dive.
Rowley Shoals
Broome · Western Australia · Australia
Three pristine coral atolls rising from deep ocean 300km off Broome, offering untouched coral gardens, dramatic walls, and powerful tidal channel dives.
China
1Colombia
1Costa Rica
1Cuba
1Ecuador
1Egypt
13Abu Fandira
Marsa Alam · Fury Shoal · Egypt
A shallow coral paradise in Egypt's deep south known for its pristine coral gardens, resident pod of spinner dolphins, and relaxed diving conditions suited to all levels.
Shaab Claudia
Marsa Alam · Fury Shoal · Egypt
A labyrinthine reef system in Egypt's Fury Shoal known for its intricate swim-throughs, coral-encrusted tunnels, and a famous underwater cavern where sunlight pierces through a natural skylight.
St. John's Caves
Marsa Alam · Fury Shoal · Egypt
A mesmerizing reef system in the deep south of the Egyptian Red Sea featuring a labyrinth of swim-throughs, caverns, and light-filled chambers carved into massive coral formations.
Brothers Islands
Marsa Alam · Red Sea · Egypt
Remote offshore islands with vertical walls and pelagic action. Liveaboard-only destination.
Rocky Island
Marsa Alam · Red Sea · Egypt
A tiny exposed rock in Egypt's furthest south Red Sea surrounded by vertical walls of extraordinary coral growth, attracting grey reef sharks, silvertip sharks, and seasonal mantas in one of the most remote dive sites accessible from Egyptian ports.
Sha'ab Sheer
Marsa Alam · Red Sea · Egypt
A remote offshore reef in Egypt's deep south where sheer walls plunge into abyssal depths, attracting schooling hammerhead sharks, silky sharks, and oceanic whitetips in one of the Red Sea's most pristine and least-dived locations.
Sataya Reef (Dolphin House South)
Marsa Alam · Red Sea Governorate · Egypt
A horseshoe-shaped offshore reef system in the southern Red Sea where resident spinner dolphins rest in a protected lagoon and the outer walls boast pristine coral growth with shark and turtle encounters.
Small Brother Island
Hurghada · Red Sea Governorate · Egypt
The smaller of Egypt's legendary Brothers Islands, a sheer-sided oceanic pinnacle where walls of pristine soft coral drop into the abyss and encounters with oceanic whitetip sharks, thresher sharks, and hammerheads draw advanced divers from around the world.
Zabargad Island
Marsa Alam · Red Sea Governorate · Egypt
A remote volcanic island in Egypt's Deep South where pristine coral walls, untouched seagrass beds, and the historical legacy of ancient peridot mines create one of the most exotic and least-dived destinations in the Red Sea.
Abu Kafan
Marsa Alam · Southern Red Sea · Egypt
A remote offshore reef in the southern Egyptian Red Sea renowned for its dramatic vertical walls, large pelagic encounters, and pristine soft coral coverage accessible primarily by liveaboard.
Daedalus Reef
Marsa Alam · Southern Red Sea · Egypt
An isolated oceanic reef rising from the deep Red Sea marked by a historic lighthouse, famous for schooling hammerhead sharks, oceanic whitetip encounters, and pristine coral walls plunging into the abyss.
Shaab Claudio
Marsa Alam · Southern Red Sea · Egypt
A spectacular offshore reef system south of Marsa Alam featuring a massive coral amphitheatre, pristine hard coral gardens, and reliable encounters with hawksbill turtles and schooling pelagics.
Umm Halhala
Marsa Alam · Southern Red Sea · Egypt
A pristine and rarely visited coral pinnacle in Egypt's deep south offering untouched hard coral gardens, resident green turtles, and extraordinary visibility in complete solitude.
Fiji
2E6 Cathedral
Rakiraki · Bligh Water · Fiji
An iconic pinnacle dive in the nutrient-rich Bligh Water, featuring a massive swim-through cathedral chamber draped in rainbow soft corals and patrolled by grey reef sharks.
Mount Mutiny
Rakiraki · Bligh Water · Fiji
A spectacular seamount rising from the deep waters of Bligh Passage, blanketed in rainbow-coloured soft corals and surrounded by schools of barracuda and trevally in nutrient-rich upwelling currents.
Indonesia
3Suanggi Island
Ambon · Banda Sea · Indonesia
A remote volcanic seamount in the Banda Sea shrouded in local superstition, offering pristine walls, big pelagic encounters, and an utterly wild diving experience for expedition-minded divers.
Hatta Island
Banda Neira · Maluku · Indonesia
A pristine Spice Islands wall dive in the remote Banda Sea with giant gorgonians, napoleon wrasse, eagle rays, and a spectacular submerged reef archway.
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.
Malaysia
1Maldives
4Dhidhdhoo Beyru
Dhidhdhoo · Haa Alifu Atoll · Maldives
A remote outer reef in the far northern Maldives where pristine coral walls host manta cleaning stations, large schools of fusiliers, and the wild atmosphere of a virtually undived atoll.
Rasdhoo Madivaru
Rasdhoo · Rasdhoo Atoll · Maldives
Early-morning channel dive famous for schooling hammerhead sharks at dawn, a bucket-list Maldives experience.
Maaya Thila Night Dive
Maamigili · South Ari Atoll · Maldives
A legendary Maldivian pinnacle that transforms after dark into one of the world's premier night dives, where hunting whitetip reef sharks, free-swimming moray eels, and bioluminescent displays create an unforgettable nocturnal spectacle.
Fotteyo Kandu Channel Dive
Felidhoo · Vaavu Atoll · Maldives
A premier channel dive in Vaavu Atoll where incoming currents funnel grey reef sharks, Napoleon wrasse, and dense pelagic schools past overhangs decorated with spectacular soft coral growth.
Mexico
4Isla Guadalupe Great White Sharks
Ensenada · Baja California · Mexico
A volcanic island 240 kilometers off Baja California offering the world's clearest water for great white shark cage diving, with visibility regularly exceeding 30 meters and reliable encounters from August to November.
El Boiler
Cabo San Lucas · Revillagigedo Archipelago · Mexico
A volcanic seamount off Socorro Island where giant Pacific manta rays approach divers for close, extended encounters in deep blue water.
Roca Partida
Cabo San Lucas · Revillagigedo Archipelago · Mexico
A tiny volcanic rock jutting from the open Pacific, surrounded by swirling walls of sharks, mantas, and humpback whales during winter months.
Roca Partida
San José del Cabo · Revillagigedo Islands · Mexico
Tiny rock 350km offshore where giant mantas, hammerheads, and whale sharks converge — a big animal Mecca.
Myanmar
2Shark Cave
Kawthaung · Mergui Archipelago · Myanmar
A dramatic swim-through cavern in the Mergui Archipelago where nurse sharks rest on sandy floors beneath limestone overhangs, surrounded by untouched soft coral gardens in gin-clear Andaman Sea water.
Western Rocky
Kawthaung · Mergui Archipelago · Myanmar
A remote granite pinnacle in the outer Mergui Archipelago where massive manta rays, whale sharks, and swirling barracuda schools converge on one of Southeast Asia's most isolated and rewarding dive sites.
Oman
1Philippines
3Tubbataha North Atoll Approach
Puerto Princesa · Palawan · Philippines
The northern approach to Tubbataha's North Atoll where an immense coral slope meets open Sulu Sea, creating a pelagic highway of hammerheads, mantas, and tiger sharks against a backdrop of pristine reef.
Tubbataha South Atoll
Puerto Princesa · Palawan · Philippines
The southern half of the Philippines' most iconic marine park, a remote oceanic atoll in the Sulu Sea where sheer coral walls plunge into abyssal depths and large pelagics, sharks, and mantas patrol in numbers rarely seen elsewhere in the country.
Tubbataha Reef
Puerto Princesa · Sulu Sea · Philippines
UNESCO World Heritage marine park. Two atolls with pristine walls and pelagic action. Liveaboard only.
Sudan
1Thailand
2East of Eden
Khao Lak · Phang Nga · Thailand
A spectacular sloping coral garden on the sheltered eastern side of Similan Island 7, known for pristine hard coral formations, enormous barrel sponges, and one of Thailand's healthiest reef ecosystems.
Surin Islands
Khao Lak · Phang Nga · Thailand
A pristine national marine park 55 km offshore with granite boulders, healthy hard corals, and some of the clearest water in the Andaman Sea.