🇩🇴Dominican Republic
Bajo de Linder, near Saona Island, is a pristine and uncrowded reef that offers some of the best diving in the Dominican Republic. The site features a beautiful sloping wall with healthy corals and a huge variety of fish.
🇵🇭Philippines
Balicasag Island is a small, round island that is a protected marine sanctuary and offers some of the best diving in the Philippines. It's famous for its spectacular walls, huge population of sea turtles, and a massive, swirling tornado of big-eyed jacks.
🇦🇺Australia
Ball's Pyramid is the world's tallest sea stack, a dramatic volcanic spire rising from the open ocean. Diving here is a true adventure, offering a chance to see the rare Ballina angelfish and other large pelagics in deep, clear water.
🇮🇩Banda Neira, Indonesia
The Banda Sea is a remote and vast expanse of water in Indonesia, accessible mainly by liveaboard. It's famous for its 'Ring of Fire' volcanic islands, pristine reefs, and the chance to encounter large schools of scalloped hammerheads during migration season.
🇮🇩Indonesia
Bangka Island, located between Bunaken and Lembeh, offers a fantastic blend of diving styles. It's known for its stunning soft coral-covered pinnacles and the chance to spot the rare and elusive dugong (sea cow) feeding on the seagrass beds.
🇦🇬Antigua & Barbuda
Antigua's sister island, Barbuda, is largely undeveloped and offers pristine, uncrowded diving. The extensive barrier reef is very healthy, and has claimed hundreds of ships over the centuries, making it a great destination for wreck enthusiasts.
🇦🇼Aruba
Barcadera Reef is one of Aruba's healthiest and most beautiful coral reefs. It's a sloping reef with massive formations of brain and star corals, and is teeming with a huge variety of colorful Caribbean reef fish.
🇧🇶Bonaire
Bari Reef, located in front of the Sand Dollar resort, holds the record for the highest number of fish species found in the Caribbean. It's an incredibly easy shore dive with a huge amount to see, especially for macro lovers.
🇵🇼Palau
Barnum's Wall is a beautiful wall dive that is a favorite for macro lovers in Palau. The wall is covered in large sea fans, and it's a fantastic spot for finding pygmy seahorses, as well as a variety of nudibranchs and other small critters.
🇭🇷Croatia
The Baron Gautsch was an Austro-Hungarian passenger ship that sank after hitting a mine in WWI. Considered the 'Titanic of the Adriatic', it's a stunning and historic wreck, sitting upright and beautifully preserved in the deep, clear water.
🇵🇭Philippines
Barracuda Lake is a unique and surreal dive in a volcanic crater. The lake consists of layers of freshwater and saltwater, creating a dramatic thermocline where the temperature can jump to 38°C. The underwater landscape is like a moonscape, with sheer rock walls.
🇲🇾Malaysia
Consistently voted as one of the top dive sites in the world, Barracuda Point is famous for the enormous, swirling vortex of thousands of chevron barracudas that forms here. It's a thrilling deep wall dive with strong currents and abundant pelagic life.
🇪🇨Ecuador
Famous for its iconic Pinnacle Rock, Bartolome offers a unique dive experience. It's one of the best places in the islands to see the Galapagos penguin 'flying' underwater as they hunt for fish around the dramatic volcanic rock formations.
🇪🇨Ecuador
Famous for its iconic Pinnacle Rock, Bartolome offers a unique dive experience. It's one of the best places in the islands to see the Galapagos penguin 'flying' underwater as they hunt for fish around the dramatic volcanic rock formations.
🇪🇨Ecuador
Famous for its iconic Pinnacle Rock, Bartolome offers a unique dive experience. It's one of the best places in the islands to see the Galapagos penguin 'flying' underwater as they hunt for fish around the dramatic volcanic rock formations.
🇸🇨Seychelles
Bass City is a dive site made up of large granite boulders and pinnacles. As the name suggests, it's a fantastic place to see a variety of large groupers, as well as schools of snappers and other reef fish.
🇵🇬Papua New Guinea
Located in one of Tufi's fjords, Bat Cave is a unique dive where you can surface inside a large, air-filled cave that is home to a colony of bats. The dive itself is an easy exploration of the fjord walls leading to the cave.
🇮🇩Indonesia
Batu Abah is a remote and exposed pinnacle off the southeast coast of Nusa Penida. It's a challenging deep dive with strong currents, but it is considered one of the best (and least crowded) places to encounter the elusive Mola mola during the season.
🇮🇩Labuan Bajo, Indonesia
Batu Bolong, meaning 'Hollow Rock', is a small rock pinnacle in the Komodo National Park. Due to its protection from fishing and its location in a high-current area, it boasts an unbelievable density of fish and pristine coral coverage.
🇲🇾Malaysia
Batu Kuching ('Cat Rock') in the Miri-Sibuti park is a shallow reef that is a paradise for macro lovers. It's one of the best sites in the area to find a huge variety of colorful nudibranchs and other small critters.
🇲🇾Malaysia
Batu Kuching ('Cat Rock') in the Miri-Sibuti park is a shallow reef that is a paradise for macro lovers. It's one of the best sites in the area to find a huge variety of colorful nudibranchs and other small critters.
🇮🇩Indonesia
Batu Mandi is a submerged pinnacle in the Banda Islands that is exposed to currents. This makes it an excellent place to see large schools of fish, particularly fusiliers and snappers, as well as hunting dogtooth tuna and giant trevallies.
🇮🇩Indonesia
Batu Nunggul is another great drift dive on the north coast of Nusa Penida. It features a long, healthy sloping reef with excellent hard coral coverage and is another fantastic spot for seeing green and hawksbill turtles.
🇮🇩Indonesia
Batu Rufus is a site in Misool that features a spectacular hidden lagoon accessible through a short swim-through. The dive itself is along the outer wall, which is covered in pristine hard corals and frequented by schools of fish.
🇮🇩Indonesia
Batu Rufus is a site in Misool that features a spectacular hidden lagoon accessible through a short swim-through. The dive itself is along the outer wall, which is covered in pristine hard corals and frequented by schools of fish.