Diving locations
Appearance
Most bodies of water can and are dived by SCUBA divers:
- seas and oceans - consist of salt water and a hugh variety of flora and fauna
- Atlantic ocean
- Caribbean Sea
- Indian ocean
- Mediterranean Sea
- Pacific ocean
- Red Sea - one of the best tropical marine life diving areas
- lakes - small ones are often used from training, large lakes have many features of seas including wrecks and a variety of marine life
- caves - adventurous and dangerous
- rivers - can be shallow, murky and with strong currents
Countriesand site with popular or interesting dive sites:
- Australia
- Britain
- Scapa Flow - final resting place of the WWI German Fleet
- English Channel - extremely busy international water way with hundreds of wrecks
- Cuba
- France
- D-Day beaches - site of WWII wrecks
- Greece
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Italy
- Kenya
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mexico
- Cozumel 20.5° N 86.9° W
- Micronesia
- Chuuk lagoon - site WWII Japanese wrecks of Operation Hailstone
- New Zealand
- Great Barrier Island
- Poor Knights Islands - great sub tropical marine life
- Bay of Islands
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Coron - site of WWII Japanese wrecks from operation to retake Philippines
- Portugal
- Spain
- Solomon Islands
- {Guadalcanal]] - site of American and Japanese wrecks
- South Africa
- Tobago
- Turkey
- United States