🇪🇸Spain
El Bajon is the most famous dive site in the Canary Islands. It's a massive, submerged volcanic cone with sheer walls that rise from the deep. The strong currents attract a huge amount of pelagic life, including manta rays, sharks, and huge schools of fish.
🇹🇳Tunisia
El Boussala is an Italian minesweeper that sank during WWII. It's a very easy and popular wreck dive, lying on a sandy bottom and now home to a large population of friendly and very large groupers.
🇲🇽Mexico
El Canyon is another premier site at San Benedicto Island, known for its strong currents and big animal action. It's a fantastic spot to see schooling hammerhead sharks, silky sharks, and giant manta rays.
🇲🇽Mexico
El Chupadero is a beautiful submerged pinnacle in the Sea of Cortez. The pinnacle is covered in sea fans and is swarmed by huge schools of sardines and other fish. It's also a great spot for macro life, including seahorses.
🇲🇽Mexico
El Chupadero is a beautiful submerged pinnacle in the Sea of Cortez. The pinnacle is covered in sea fans and is swarmed by huge schools of sardines and other fish. It's also a great spot for macro life, including seahorses.
🇲🇽Mexico
El Chupadero is a beautiful submerged pinnacle in the Sea of Cortez. The pinnacle is covered in sea fans and is swarmed by huge schools of sardines and other fish. It's also a great spot for macro life, including seahorses.
🇲🇽Mexico
El Cielo ('Heaven') is a stunningly beautiful shallow sandbar, famous for the hundreds of starfish that dot the white sand. It's a protected area and primarily a snorkeling spot, offering a truly heavenly experience.
🇪🇸Spain
El Desierto ('The Desert') is a unique dive site in La Restinga, a vast, sloping sandy bottom punctuated by volcanic rock formations. It's home to a huge colony of garden eels and is a great place to find stingrays and angel sharks.
🇪🇸Spain
El Desierto ('The Desert') is a unique dive site in La Restinga, a vast, sloping sandy bottom punctuated by volcanic rock formations. It's home to a huge colony of garden eels and is a great place to find stingrays and angel sharks.
🇪🇬Egypt
El Fanadir is a long reef that offers a fantastic wall dive, particularly for macro life and night dives. The wall is full of small crevices and overhangs that are home to a huge variety of critters, including many species of shrimp and the elusive stonefish.
🇪🇬Egypt
El Fanadir is a long reef that offers a fantastic wall dive, particularly for macro life and night dives. The wall is full of small crevices and overhangs that are home to a huge variety of critters, including many species of shrimp and the elusive stonefish.
🇪🇬Egypt
El Fanadir is a long reef that offers a fantastic wall dive, particularly for macro life and night dives. The wall is full of small crevices and overhangs that are home to a huge variety of critters, including many species of shrimp and the elusive stonefish.
🇪🇸Spain
El Hierro is the smallest of the Canary Islands and a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, offering arguably the best diving in the archipelago. Its protected waters, clear visibility, and dramatic volcanic topography are a haven for marine life.
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
Not to be confused with the Egyptian site, El Ikhwa ('The Brothers') in Saudi Arabia are two remote offshore islands offering world-class diving. The reefs are pristine, and the strong currents attract a huge amount of pelagic life, including many species of sharks.
🇪🇬Egypt
The El Mina was an Egyptian minesweeper sunk by Israeli jets in Hurghada harbor. It's a fascinating historical wreck, lying on its port side and easily accessible from the main town. It's a great dive for wreck enthusiasts.
🇪🇬Egypt
The El Mina was an Egyptian minesweeper sunk by Israeli jets in Hurghada harbor. It's a fascinating historical wreck, lying on its port side and easily accessible from the main town. It's a great dive for wreck enthusiasts.
🇪🇬Egypt
The El Mina was an Egyptian minesweeper sunk by Israeli jets in Hurghada harbor. It's a fascinating historical wreck, lying on its port side and easily accessible from the main town. It's a great dive for wreck enthusiasts.
🇪🇬Egypt
El Muqabila is a beautiful dive site with a series of coral pinnacles rising from a sandy slope. The pinnacles are covered in colorful soft corals and are home to a huge variety of life, making for a very pretty and easy dive.
🇵🇭Philippines
El Nido is famous for its stunning landscape of towering limestone cliffs and hidden lagoons. Underwater, the scenery is just as beautiful, with healthy coral reefs, fun swim-throughs, and a surprising amount of interesting macro life.
🇲🇽Mexico
The El Vencedor was a tuna trawler that now lies on a sandy bottom in Cabo Pulmo. The wreck has become a fantastic artificial reef, attracting turtles, rays, and serving as a hunting ground for the resident bull sharks.
🇲🇽Mexico
The El Vencedor was a tuna trawler that now lies on a sandy bottom in Cabo Pulmo. The wreck has become a fantastic artificial reef, attracting turtles, rays, and serving as a hunting ground for the resident bull sharks.
🇹🇭Thailand
Elephant Head Rock is one of the most iconic and challenging dives in the Similan Islands. It's a jumble of massive granite boulders that create a complex maze of swim-throughs, arches, and canyons for divers to explore.
🇮🇹Italy
Elephant Rock is a spectacular pinnacle dive in the marine reserve of Tavolara. The site is known for its dramatic topography, large resident groupers, and beautiful branches of red and yellow coral.
🇬🇷Greece
Elephant's Cave is a unique and fascinating dive. The large, partially air-filled cavern is beautifully decorated with stalactites and stalagmites. The cave is also famous for the fossilized remains of a prehistoric elephant discovered here.
🇪🇬Egypt
Elphinstone is a legendary offshore reef in the southern Egyptian Red Sea. It's a long, finger-like reef with sheer walls dropping into the blue, covered in soft corals. It's famous for thrilling drift dives and encounters with oceanic whitetip sharks.