Top 10 Summer Scuba Diving Destinations Contd

June 17, 2011
by NOREEN
With summer around the corner, it’s that time of the year again to scope out those tropical scuba diving destinations for that unforgettable dive vacation.
Here’s a look at the Top 10 Summer Diving Destinations around the world:

1. Cozumel, Mexico

Ranked no. 1 by PADI as a top dive destination and featuring on almost every divers must-dive destination list, the island of Cozumel off the Mayan Coast of Mexico is a feast for any divers eyes. Famous for its drift diving, Cozumel is a lazy diver’s paradise with currents that range from gentle 1/2 knots near some dive sites to fast, strong currents only for experienced and adventurous drift divers. The island is a mere 28 miles / 45 kilometers/ km long and 10 miles / 16 kilometers/ km wide and is surrounded by gorgeous reefs and pristine clear waters. Cozumel is actually a conglomeration of many different coral formations and personalities, as a series of separate reefs make up the over 20 highlypopular diving areas of Cozumel, including a labyrinth of tunnels, dramatic swim through’s and canyons lying amidst the towering coral plateaus teeming with marine life.

2. Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

Bonaire of the Dutch Antilles located in the southern Caribbean near Aruba is world renowned for its excellent scuba diving and is consistently rated among the best diving and locations in the world. The island itself is actually the peak of a submerged mountain, so deep sloping reefs surround most of the island. Just a walk down the beach and you can plunge into any one of the 86 spots and find spectacular coral within a few hundred yards. The Bonaire Marine Park protect the environment from the high water mark to a depth of 200 feet maintaining this reef’s integrity.

3. Cayman Islands, Caribbean

Rated by many publications as the best place to dive in the Caribbean, the Grand Cayman a part of the Cayman Islands is also ranks 3rd on PADI Network’s list of favorite Scuba destinations. Diving conditions in the Caymans is second to none, with it’s astonishingly clear underwater visibility usually ranging from 150′ to 200′. It’s renowned primarily for their abundant Wall and Wreck Diving sites. This world class dive destination has sites such as the Strawberry Sponge Wall, Snapper Reef and the MV Capt. Keith Tibbetts Wreck in Cayman Brac, Little Cayman’s Bloody Bay Wall ranked as one of the top five dive sites in the world and so many more. It’s quite popular for non-diver sites too like Stingray City, where you can float through shallow waters and come face-to-face with stingrays the size of table tops.

4. Belize, Caribbean

At the mention Belize Scuba diving and as a diving destination everyone talks about the Blue Hole Diving, but there’s a lot more to this diving hotspot that just that. The Barrier Reef around Belize is 185 meandering miles (298 km) of unspoiled beauty. It varies from 8 to 16 miles (13-26 km) from the mainland to less than one mile (1.6 km) offshore from Ambergris Caye. Belize even has three atolls with more than 160 miles of walls and reefs suitable for diving. With divers flocking to the blue hole’s Lighthouse reef, the rest are secluded unspoiled and untouched, a far cry from the major dive centers and other popular marine life destinations of the Caribbean and our pick for no.4.

5. Sipadan, Malaysia

Sipadan island, off the coast of Sabah, Malaysia is simply unbeatable in its beauty and wealth of marine life that inhabit this coral island, formed by living coral growing on top of an extinct volcanic cone in the heart if the indo-pacific basin. The island itself is a pinnacle rising from 600 meters from the seabed in the Celebes Sea. Home to some of the best dive sites in the world, Sipadan is most renowned for Barracuda Point which regularly features among the top 5 dive sites in the world.

6. Chuuk (Truk), Micronesia
Chuuk Lagoon formerly known as Truk Lagoon is Micronesia’s incredible undersea phenomena and the finest wreck diving destination in the World. The heart of the World War 2 activities between America and Japan, the Japanese set their naval base in Micronesia’s Truk Lagoon with often more than 1,000 merchant and war ships moored there ready for deployment. The venue of many fierce encounters during the WW2, now more than 100 ships, planes and submarines rest in the crystal clear lagoon waters of the Chuuk Atolls that make for some stunning dive sites.

7. Turks and Caicos Islands, Caribbean

PADI’s 7th favorite dive spot and ours too, these islands provide a rich assortment of relatively unexplored underwater sites, including sea lanes where boaters and divers often spot whales. Along with miles of reefs brimming with marine life, the islands also have some great wreck diving of their coasts. The HMS Endymion which sunk in 1790 is one such wreck. The reefs also feature some deep sea drop offs where the walls plunge into inky black depths of more than 2,100 meters (6,900 ft.).
8. Phuket, Thailand

Thailand is simply a spectacular South-East Asian destination for Scuba Diving. All the water bodies surrounding this nation are populated by diverse and rich variety of coral and marine life making it easy to find great dive sites. The Western coastline of Thailand facing the Andaman Sea is a coastline rich with some of the best scuba diving sites in the world.

9. Indonesia

You can’t say you’ve dived Asia until you’ve been underneath the surface in this archipelago. Forming one corner of the ‘Coral Triangle’, Indonesia’s 17,000 magnificent islands with it’s rich marine diversity is slap bang in the center when it comes the some of the best diving in Asia. Situated at what it sometimes referred to as the core of the ocean’s heart, Indonesia sits on the western edge of the Pacific Rim which witnesses a lot of seismic activity and is called the “Ring of Fire”. The seismic activity in the region causes the pressure and heat responsible for nutrient rich warm equatorial currents, that make Indonesia a hot bed of marine bio-diversity and home to 20% of the world’s coral reefs. It’s no wonder that Indonesia features in the world’s best scuba destinations, unfortunately it’s the least known of them- A forgotten divers paradise!

10. Cocos Island, Costa Rica

Ranked as the 6th Best dive site by the PADI network, Cocos Island is a live-aboard only dive destination as it’s situated some 300 miles off the main coast of Costa Rica. A must dive site for those shark diving enthusiasts, it’s a unique spot to dive with literally hundreds of hammerhead sharks. You can also swim with dolphins, tuna, gigantic marble rays and even whale sharks here making it a must dive destination for any diver.

Source: http://aquaviews.net/scuba-dive-destinations/top-10-summer-scuba-diving-destinations-2/

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