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Kerama Blue Zamami
Zamami · Okinawa Prefecture · Japan
Crystal-clear waters nicknamed Kerama Blue surround Zamami Island's coral gardens, where green sea turtles glide over pristine staghorn formations and humpback whales pass through during winter months.
Miyakojima Yabiji Coral Reef
Miyakojima · Okinawa Prefecture · Japan
Japan's largest coral reef system north of Miyako Island in Okinawa, featuring over 100 reef patches with pristine table corals, manta ray cleaning stations, and some of the clearest water in the Japanese archipelago.
Okinawa Blue Cave Cape Maeda
Naha · Okinawa Prefecture · Japan
A sea cave on Okinawa's western coast where sunlight refracting through the underwater entrance creates an ethereal blue glow inside the cavern, accessible to snorkellers and divers alike and home to colourful tropical reef fish and marine crustaceans.
Yonaguni 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.
Atami
Atami · Shizuoka Prefecture · Japan
A soft coral-encrusted shipwreck and volcanic reef just 45 minutes from Tokyo by bullet train, offering year-round temperate diving with seasonal megafauna.
Cape Ose
Numazu · Shizuoka Prefecture · Japan
A biodiversity hotspot on the Izu Peninsula where deep-sea oddities, frogfish, and seasonal mola mola converge against a Mount Fuji backdrop.
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.
Ogasawara Minami-jima
Chichijima · Tokyo Prefecture · Japan
A tiny uninhabited island in the Ogasawara chain south of Chichijima, where dramatic underwater walls plunge into deep blue water and encounters with dolphins, sharks, and massive pelagic fish define every dive.
Kabira Manta Point
Ishigaki · Yaeyama Islands, Okinawa · Japan
A shallow reef cleaning station off Kabira Bay where manta rays gather in spectacular numbers from summer through autumn.
Cedar Pride Wreck
Aqaba · Aqaba Governorate · Jordan
Jordan's most famous dive -- a 75-metre freighter deliberately sunk in 1985 as an artificial reef, lying on her port side and completely encrusted in soft corals and marine life.
Japanese Garden
Aqaba · Aqaba Governorate · Jordan
A beautiful shallow reef in Aqaba's marine park with dense hard coral gardens, resident seahorses, and colourful reef fish -- perfect for beginners and underwater photographers alike.
King Abdullah Reef
Aqaba · Gulf of Aqaba · Jordan
A purpose-sunk artificial reef complex off Aqaba combining military vehicles, an aircraft, and steel structures that have transformed into thriving artificial habitats, creating an underwater military museum alive with Red Sea marine life.
Malindi Marine National Park
Malindi · Kilifi County · Kenya
Kenya's oldest marine park protects coral gardens at the edge of the Sabaki River estuary where green turtles nest, dolphin pods patrol, and the nutrient-rich waters support remarkable fish diversity on accessible shallow reef.
Watamu Marine National Park
Watamu · Kilifi County · Kenya
A UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on Kenya's coast featuring coral gardens, underwater caves, and seasonal whale shark and manta ray encounters in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean between ancient coral cliffs and mangrove-fringed coastline.
Diani Reef
Diani Beach · Kwale County · Kenya
A vibrant fringing coral reef off Kenya's most popular beach, where green turtles, whale sharks, and manta rays visit warm Indian Ocean waters teeming with tropical life.
Kisite-Mpunguti Marine Park
Shimoni · Kwale County · Kenya
Kenya's premier marine national park off the Tanzanian border where warm Indian Ocean waters harbour resident pods of spinner and bottlenose dolphins, humpback whale migrations, and pristine coral gardens on the outer reef slopes of Kisite Island.
Kiritimati (Christmas Island) London Wreck
London · Line Islands · Kiribati
A shallow World War II landing craft wreck on the reef flat of the world's largest coral atoll by land area, surrounded by some of the most pristine and least explored reefs in the Pacific.
Kubbar Island Reef
Kuwait City · Al Ahmadi Governorate · Kuwait
A small coral island in the southern Persian Gulf where surprisingly diverse reef life thrives in extreme conditions, offering Kuwait's best natural diving on shallow coral platforms teeming with Arabian endemics.
Oga Maru Wreck
Kuwait City · Persian Gulf · Kuwait
A Japanese cargo vessel resting on the sandy Gulf floor off Kuwait, this accessible wreck dive offers penetration opportunities, resident marine life, and a window into Kuwait's growing recreational diving scene.
Liepaja Northern Forts
Liepaja · Baltic Sea · Latvia
Haunting underwater ruins of a 19th-century Russian military fortress slowly reclaimed by the Baltic Sea, offering eerie exploration among collapsed fortifications and WWII debris in shallow Latvian waters.
Ventspils Offshore Wrecks
Ventspils · Kurzeme · Latvia
A collection of merchant vessel and wartime wrecks lying on the sandy Baltic seabed offshore from Latvia's major port city, offering eerie cold-water wreck exploration with intact hull structures.
Raouche Sea Caves
Beirut · Beirut Coast · Lebanon
Dramatic sea caves and grottoes beneath Beirut's iconic Pigeon Rocks, where Mediterranean marine life thrives in volcanic caverns and divers explore an underwater landscape hidden beneath one of the Middle East's most famous coastlines.
Sidon Sea Castle Ruins
Sidon · South Governorate · Lebanon
Shallow archaeological diving beneath the 13th-century Crusader Sea Castle of Sidon, where Phoenician harbour remains, scattered amphora fragments, and ancient stone blocks are colonised by marine life in the warm Lebanese shallows.
Sabratha Roman Ruins Underwater
Sabratha · Tripolitania · Libya
Submerged Roman-era ruins and port structures off the ancient city of Sabratha, where archaeological remains from one of Libya's UNESCO World Heritage Sites extend beneath the Mediterranean surface.
About the dive sites catalog
The DiveOne dive sites catalog includes reefs, wrecks, walls, caves and drift dive locations across major dive destinations. Each location includes depth, conditions, environment type and skill requirements to help you plan safely.
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