Dive Sites

The Loreto National Marine Park in the Sea of Cortez offers beautiful and pristine diving around its protected islands. The area is known for its healthy reefs, playful sea lion colonies, and seasonal encounters with blue and fin whales.

The Loreto National Marine Park in the Sea of Cortez offers beautiful and pristine diving around its protected islands. The area is known for its healthy reefs, playful sea lion colonies, and seasonal encounters with blue and fin whales.

The Loreto National Marine Park in the Sea of Cortez offers beautiful and pristine diving around its protected islands. The area is known for its healthy reefs, playful sea lion colonies, and seasonal encounters with blue and fin whales.

Los Islotes is a small group of rocky islands that is home to a large and very playful colony of California sea lions. Diving or snorkeling here means being surrounded by curious and acrobatic sea lion pups. A truly joyful experience.

The Lost Blue Hole is a massive blue hole in the open ocean off the coast of Nassau. It's a spectacular deep dive, with the rim of the hole at 12 meters, and it's a known aggregation site for a variety of sharks, eagle rays, and other large pelagics.

The Lost Blue Hole is a massive blue hole in the open ocean off the coast of Nassau. It's a spectacular deep dive, with the rim of the hole at 12 meters, and it's a known aggregation site for a variety of sharks, eagle rays, and other large pelagics.

Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel was the UK's first Marine Conservation Zone. It's best known for its colony of playful grey seals that love to interact with divers and snorkelers. The island also has numerous wrecks and beautiful rocky reefs.

The Talata is a freighter that was sunk as an artificial reef. It's a very easy and pretty wreck dive, sitting upright in shallow water and now home to a good variety of fish life, including large pufferfish.

Mactan Island, right next to Cebu City, offers surprisingly good and incredibly convenient diving. There are several marine sanctuaries with beautiful walls, a number of small wrecks, and great macro life, all just minutes from the international airport.

The island of Madeira offers fantastic diving in its protected marine reserves. The Garajau reserve is famous for its massive and very friendly dusky groupers, which are hand-fed by divers. The water is typically crystal clear.

Mafia Island is a protected marine park and one of the best and most reliable places in the world to snorkel with whale sharks. The diving in the bay is on beautiful, healthy coral reefs with a huge variety of fish life.

Magic Kingdom is a beautiful and easy coral garden dive in the Mamanuca Islands. It's like swimming in an aquarium, with a huge variety of colorful reef fish, anemonefish, and healthy hard and soft corals.

Located in the Misool region of southern Raja Ampat, Magic Mountain is a submerged pinnacle that is one of the few places in the world where both giant Oceanic Manta Rays and smaller Reef Mantas can be seen at the same cleaning station.

Maho Bay in the US Virgin Islands is a protected bay famous for its large population of sea turtles. The extensive seagrass beds are a major feeding ground for both green and hawksbill turtles, making for fantastic and easy snorkeling and diving.

Maho Bay in the US Virgin Islands is a protected bay famous for its large population of sea turtles. The extensive seagrass beds are a major feeding ground for both green and hawksbill turtles, making for fantastic and easy snorkeling and diving.

Mainit Point ('Hot Point') is a dive site where geothermal vents in the seabed release streams of bubbles, creating the feeling of diving in champagne. The point is also subject to currents, which support a very healthy and vibrant coral reef.

Makassar Reef is a long, flat reef that is more rubble than coral, but it's one of the most reliable places in Komodo to find manta rays. It's an easy drift dive where divers are carried by the current over several cleaning stations, watching the mantas hover below.

Malabar is a beautiful and varied dive site at Lord Howe, featuring a wall, a sloping reef, and several fun swim-throughs and tunnels. It's a great all-around dive with a lot of fish life and a high chance of turtle sightings.

Malang Rock is a beautiful and easy dive site featuring granite boulder formations that create fun swim-throughs and overhangs. The rocks are covered in colorful soft corals and are a fantastic place to hunt for different species of nudibranchs.

Malapascua is a tiny, beautiful island that has become world-famous for one thing: the thresher shark. It's the only place in the world for reliable sightings of these deep-water sharks. The island also offers fantastic macro diving and a relaxed vibe.

Malibu Point is a deep dive site on the east coast of Nusa Penida, known for its chances to see larger marine life. The site consists of several seamounts and is a good place to look for reef sharks, eagle rays, and Mola mola in season.

Malo Pass is a deep channel near Santo that offers a thrilling drift dive. The strong currents attract sharks, eagle rays, and huge schools of fish. The seagrass beds in the area are also one of the best places in Vanuatu to spot the elusive dugong.

Malpelo is a remote, barren rock island 500km off the coast of Colombia. It's a UNESCO World Heritage site and a true shark mecca. Divers come here for the enormous schools of hammerhead sharks and the famous 'monster' aggregations of silky sharks.