A remarkable photo gallery of some of the world's best scuba diving sites. Which is your favorite?
Ludovic Galko-RundgrenThe name of this fantastic dive site is POS 2, located off of Menjangan Island in Northwest Bali. This photograph was taken during a boat dive with an average depth of around 80 feet. POS 2 is filled with marine life like sea fans, whip corals, damselfish, pygmy seahorses, and anemonefish like this peeking little clown.
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Brandon ColeThis dive took place amidst the mysterious waters of the Rio Negro River located in Brazil. A tributary of the Amazon; the Rio Negro is the largest blackwater river in the world, with visibility going down to about only 10 feet. This photograph captures a rare snapshot into the world of the endangered Amazon River dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), also called boto or pink river dolphin.
Damien MauricBlooming with life in the Mediterranean waters off the coast of Marseille, France, the wreck of Le Chaouen, a cargo ship that sank in 1970 while hauling oranges, lies lopsided upon the sea floor. It rests on its port side between 30 and 100 feet with a colorful mast covered in large red gorgonians. Schools of sardines and sea breams patrol the entire wreck and visibility is normally between 50 to 100 feet.
Tobias FriedrichBustling and swarming, a massive school of New Zealand demoiselles (Chromis dispilus), fill with a frenzy the waters of Tie Dye Arch, located off the Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand. Tie Dye Arch is a open-water pinnacle site abundant in underwater arches and caves. Visibility here is around 65 feet.
Ludovic Galko-RundgrenFiery red coral and blue schooling sardines seem to collide against the deep in this vibrant photograph taken at Pescador Island, a wall dive site located just off Moalboal, Cebu in the Philippines. Descending to 160 feet and with visibility being between 30 to 100 feet, this colorful wall is alive with soft coral, sardines, frogfish, leaf fish, and tube sponges.
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Tobias FriedrichA diver floats mesmerized by the crystal-clear water that fills the breath-taking Blue Hole dive site located in the Mediterranean Sea just off of Gozo, Malta. This blue hole dive lies beneath the "Azure Window" on Malta's west coast and begins with a picturesque decent to around 40 feet where a natural stone archway appears that leads to the open sea. Visibility here can reach up to an astounding 130 feet.
Franco BanfiRising ominously out of depths of a lagoon near Tahiti's Faa'a International Airport lies The Schooner, a tantalizing and decaying wreck site. Sitting at around 80 feet of water, the old schooner rests only a few hundred feet from the wreck of an airplane, which is also divable. Visibility here ranges between 50 to 100 feet.
Francesco Pacienza.Epic is an understatement as one floats in awe in between the ancient, stoic statues and Roman architecture scattered throughout the Sunken Nymphaeum. An archaeological site located inside the Underwater Archeological Park of Baiae near Naples, Italy, the submerged Nymphaeum of Emperor Claudius is a rectangular building decorated with a series of Homeric statues. Visibility here is at about 40 feet.
