Dive Sites

Manuk, another volcanic 'snake island' in the Banda Sea, offers a similar experience to Gunung Api but in an even more remote setting. The sky is filled with frigatebirds, and the water is filled with sea snakes, creating a truly wild, 'end of the world' feeling.

Maomao Arch is a massive underwater archway, named for the enormous school of blue maomao fish that often congregates here, creating a swirling blue vortex. Swimming through the arch and the school of fish is a classic Poor Knights experience.

Located on the remote western tip of Cuba, Maria la Gorda offers spectacular wall diving. The Guanahacabibes Peninsula is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, and the walls here are incredibly pristine, with huge forests of black coral.

Marilyn's Cut is a beautiful dive on the Bloody Bay Wall, featuring a deep canyon that cuts through the reef and opens out onto the deep wall. The walls of the cut are covered in colorful sponges and are a great place to see large groupers.

Marovo Lagoon is the largest saltwater lagoon in the world. The diving here is spectacular, with thrilling drifts through the passages that connect the lagoon to the open ocean, and pristine, untouched coral reefs inside the lagoon.

Marsa Abu Galawa is a beautiful and easy dive site in Hurghada, featuring a series of stunning coral pinnacles rising from a sandy bottom. The pinnacles are covered in colorful soft corals and are swarming with glassfish and anthias.

Marsa Bareika is a huge, deep bay in Ras Mohammed that offers a great variety of diving. The entrance features beautiful walls, while the inner, sandy parts of the bay offer fantastic muck diving and macro opportunities.

Marsa Egla is a beautiful and quiet bay that offers a fantastic, easy shore dive. The seagrass beds are a good place to look for turtles, and the fringing reefs on either side of the bay are full of macro life.

Marsa Egla is a beautiful and quiet bay that offers a fantastic, easy shore dive. The seagrass beds are a good place to look for turtles, and the fringing reefs on either side of the bay are full of macro life.

Marsa Egla is a beautiful and quiet bay that offers a fantastic, easy shore dive. The seagrass beds are a good place to look for turtles, and the fringing reefs on either side of the bay are full of macro life.

Marsa Mubarak is a large, sheltered bay that is famous for being a feeding ground for dugongs (sea cows) and giant green sea turtles. The vast seagrass beds provide a unique diving and snorkeling experience with these gentle giants.

Marsa Mubarak is a large, sheltered bay that is famous for being a feeding ground for dugongs (sea cows) and giant green sea turtles. The vast seagrass beds provide a unique diving and snorkeling experience with these gentle giants.

Marsa Shouna is a large, sandy bay with extensive seagrass beds and beautiful reefs on both sides. It's a fantastic spot for seeing green turtles and is one of the best places in the area to find the unique-looking guitar shark.

Marsa Shouna is a large, sandy bay with extensive seagrass beds and beautiful reefs on both sides. It's a fantastic spot for seeing green turtles and is one of the best places in the area to find the unique-looking guitar shark.

Marsa Shouna is a large, sandy bay with extensive seagrass beds and beautiful reefs on both sides. It's a fantastic spot for seeing green turtles and is one of the best places in the area to find the unique-looking guitar shark.

Marsalforn Bay offers very easy and accessible shore diving. The site is a jumble of large boulders that create numerous hiding places for marine life, particularly octopus and moray eels.

Marsalforn Bay offers very easy and accessible shore diving. The site is a jumble of large boulders that create numerous hiding places for marine life, particularly octopus and moray eels.

Mary Island is a remote volcanic island famous for two things: a spectacular underwater crater and massive, swirling schools of jacks and barracuda that can block out the sun. It's a thrilling, action-packed pelagic dive.

Mary's Place is Roatan's most famous dive site. It features a deep fissure that has created a stunning series of narrow canyons and swim-throughs for divers to explore. The walls are covered in beautiful black coral and sea fans.

Masaplod Norte is a marine sanctuary in Dauin with a large artificial reef made of concrete blocks and other structures. This has created a thriving habitat for a huge amount of fish life, as well as being a great muck diving site.

The Matai is a historic cargo ship that now rests in very shallow water inside the main harbor of Rarotonga. It's an incredibly easy dive and a fantastic snorkeling spot, with the wreck's boilers breaking the surface.

Maumere Bay was once one of Indonesia's premier dive destinations before a tsunami in 1992. Today, the reefs are in a fascinating state of regeneration, and the bay has re-established itself as a world-class muck diving and macro photography location.

The Mawali Wreck is a large Japanese WWII cargo ship that lies on its port side in the Lembeh Strait. The wreck itself is a fantastic dive, but it's also a superb macro site, with the decaying structure providing a habitat for countless rare critters.