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Dive sites: Whale

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

Ecuador

Isla de la Plata

Puerto Lopez · Machalilla National Park · Ecuador

Ecuador's 'Poor Man's Galapagos' harbours the world's largest manta ray population, humpback whales in season, and the country's best-preserved coastal coral reef.

France

pinnacle

Le Sec Jaune

Saint-Leu · Reunion · France

The legendary dive of Reunion Island, a volcanic pinnacle rising from the deep with extraordinary fish mimicry, green turtles, and seasonal humpback whale encounters.

Gabon

open-water

Pongara National Park

Libreville · Estuaire Province · Gabon

An unexplored frontier of Central African diving where the equatorial Atlantic meets the Gabon estuary, yielding encounters with humpback whales, whale sharks, and pristine rocky reefs.

Indonesia

open-water

Sawu Sea

Ba'a · East Nusa Tenggara · Indonesia

A vast pelagic wilderness between Timor and Sumba where deep oceanic upwellings attract blue whales, sperm whales, and oceanic manta rays to one of the last truly wild marine frontiers in Southeast Asia.

Japan

reef

Chichijima - Bonin Islands

Chichijima · Ogasawara Islands · Japan

Japan's remote Galapagos where sand tiger sharks, dolphins, humpback whales, and pristine coral reefs reward the 24-hour ferry journey from Tokyo.

Mexico

open-water

Magdalena Bay Gray Whales

Ciudad Constitucion · Baja California Sur · Mexico

A sheltered Pacific lagoon where gray whales gather each winter to calve and nurse, offering extraordinary in-water encounters with curious mothers and calves in shallow warm waters.

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.

Papua New Guinea

reef

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.

South Africa

open-water

Sardine Run Wild Coast

Port St Johns · KwaZulu-Natal / Eastern Cape · South Africa

The greatest marine spectacle on Earth, where billions of sardines migrate along South Africa's Wild Coast pursued by sharks, dolphins, whales, and diving birds in a feeding frenzy of unmatched scale.