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Dive sites: Seamount

Seamount dive sites — depth, conditions, and required training level.

Costa Rica

Bajo 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.

Fiji

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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

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Suanggi 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.

Mexico

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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.

Myanmar

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Burma Banks

Kawthaung · Andaman Sea · Myanmar

Massive flat-topped seamounts rising from 300-meter depths in the open Andaman Sea, attracting silvertip sharks, mantas, and open-ocean predators.

Papua New Guinea

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Fathers Reefs

Kimbe · West New Britain · Papua New Guinea

A cluster of volcanic seamounts in the centre of Kimbe Bay rising from deep water, famous for pristine hard coral gardens, dense fish aggregations, and as a research site for marine biodiversity studies.

Kimbe Bay

Kimbe · West New Britain Province · Papua New Guinea

The coral capital of the world, sheltering 60 percent of Indo-Pacific coral species on seamounts, walls, and pristine reefs.

Portugal

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Formigas Islets

Vila Franca do Campo · Azores · Portugal

A remote chain of rocky islets and submerged pinnacles in the eastern Azores, designated a marine reserve where mobula rays school in hundreds and blue sharks cruise the nutrient-rich mid-Atlantic waters.

Princess Alice Bank

Madalena, Pico · Azores · Portugal

A legendary open-ocean seamount 90 kilometres from the Azores where vast carousels of mobula rays, giant manta rays, and blue sharks congregate in summer.

Seychelles

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Shark Bank

Victoria · Mahé · Seychelles

A submerged granite plateau rising from the deep water northwest of Mahé, Shark Bank is the Seychelles' premier pelagic dive site where whale sharks, grey reef sharks, and massive stingrays congregate around the current-swept pinnacle.

Spain

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Cabo de Palos Islas Hormigas

Cartagena · Murcia · Spain

A marine reserve off southeast Spain where submerged volcanic pinnacles attract the Mediterranean's largest aggregations of barracuda, eagle rays, and enormous dusky groupers, with dramatic underwater topography and exceptional visibility.