Scuba Diving Blog & Forum
One of the best places in the world to scuba dive or swim with seahorses is Barbados. At the Cement Works dive site, you are almost guaranteed sightings of seahorses in and around the pier piles. For pygmy seahorses, the best dive site for these is Raja Ampat, Indonesia.
The best place to scuba dive with whale sharks is in warm waters of 21°C (70°F) or more in temperature. The largest extant fish in the ocean and a filter feeder, the whale shark is on the endangered list of creatures. Places like the Ningaloo Reef, Australia and Isla Mujeres off the coast of Mexico near Cancun are some of the best places to see whale sharks.
The best place to scuba dive with turtles includes The Great Barrier Reef, the Red Sea in Egypt, Bonaire, Barbados and Akumal in the Caribbean sea and the Gulf of Mexico, Exmouth and the Ningaloo Reef in Australia and Sipadan in Malaysia. There are seven species of extant sea turtles, which are explained in detail below.
Night diving bioluminescence is a phenomenon you can see underwater when you switch off your dive torch and wave your arms. When you do this tiny plankton light up blue underwater. Scientists are still unsure as to why so many creatures are bioluminescent, but either way it’s something that scuba divers can enjoy on a night dive.
There are up to 134 species of shark found on the Great Barrier Reef. Shark species found there include whitetip sharks, blacktip sharks, hammerhead sharks, tiger sharks and the strange looking Wobbegong shark.
Many beginner scuba divers ask ‘how deep can you dive without decompression.’ As all dives are decompression dives, the answer is: You can’t dive without needing to decompress. A better question that should be asked is ‘how deep can you dive without decompression stops?‘ Decompression stops are affected by how deep you dive and also by how much time you spend at your chosen depth. The deeper and longer your dive, the more chances of needing decompression stops. For shallow dives between 6-10 metres (20-30 feet) you could spend many hours without needing to stop for decompression. But if you dive deeper than 30 metres (100 feet), your time at this depth would be limited to around 20 minutes before a decompression stop is required.
The best airport to fly to for visiting the Great Barrier Reef is Cairns international airport. Cairns is in the northern part of the State of Queensland and is the closest coastal town to the Great Barrier Reef. You can either get a direct international flight into Cairns, or get a domestic flight from one of the other Australian cities, like Sydney, Perth or Melbourne.
The world’s best shore diving is in Bonaire where you can buy unlimited scuba diving packages The best shore dives in Bonaire can be enjoyed by experienced and certified scuba divers. Go as a buddy-pair and dive the shore dive sites around this Netherlands Antilles island. Bonaire’s shore dives are so good they have been vote […]
Jardines de la Reina National Park is Cuba’s second largest archipelago. Situated along the southern coast of mainland Cuba, it’s a protected marine park. The only way to scuba dive this top dive destination is by liveaboard. An almost guarantee to see reef and silky sharks and the area has many giant and Goliath groupers to enjoy.
The best resorts to stay at on the Bahamas where scuba diving is included, are Sandals resorts. There are two ‘adult-only’ all-inclusive resorts by Sandals. These are the Sandals Royal Bahamian and Sandals Emerald Bay. If you’re certified, simply show your certification and you can dive. But even if you’re not a certified scuba diver, you can learn to dive with an experienced PADI diving instructor. But you’ll have to pay the PADI course fees to learn scuba. Alternatively, there’s a 3-hour Discover Scuba Diving Program, which carries a nominal fee too.
Scuba diving Cocos Island Costa Rica can only be done from a liveaboard. To get there you need to fly to Cost Rica. Then it’s a 36 hour boat trip to Cocos Island from Puntarenas port. For experienced and advanced divers only due it its remote location of 342 miles off the cost of Cost Rica. The marine life there includes large numbers of hammerhead. But you will also see other shark species, including on occasion the whale shark, plus other marine creatures.
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