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THE MOST UNIQUE AND EXCLUSIVE DIVE SITES YOU COULD EVER FIND…
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MALDIVES
Fleetfoot’s crown jewel and our first dive love
Welcome to the Maldives - it’s our top pick and perennial favourite. Immerse yourself in crystal-clear waters, pristine reefs, and an abundance of marine life. Explore underwater caves, drift along breathtaking drop-offs, and discover a range of beautiful coral and marine life, from the largest pelagics to the smallest creatures of the reef.
Newbie or seasoned diver, Maldives offers an unforgettable experience just a few hours from India, with consistent water temperatures and generally calm currents year-round.
Marine Life: Colourful reef fish, turtles, octopuses, eagle and manta rays, reef sharks
Highlights:
- Underwater Wonderland: Dive into a vibrant living aquarium with stunning marine life and spectacular visibility. Enjoy schools of colorful fish, watch reef sharks and eagle rays glide by, spot turtles, and explore captivating shipwrecks.
- Manta Rays: Swim with graceful giants showcasing their smooth somersaults and impressive moves. Witness the ‘Manta Car Wash’ at cleaning stations, where cleaner wrasse provide a VIP cleanup in a stunning display of marine teamwork.
Best time to dive: Year-round
RAJA AMPAT, INDONESIA
The Amazon of the underwater world
Raja Ampat, known as “the last paradise,” is nestled in the Coral Triangle. This stunning archipelago is a diver’s dream, home to vibrant coral gardens, seamounts, and pinnacles brimming with diverse marine life. Dive through coral-covered walls and channels, encountering everything from swirling barracuda to elusive pygmy seahorses.
The northern regions are famed for their ripping currents and marine megafauna, including sharks and tuna—many divers’ big fish bucket list. Further south, discover stunning hard and soft coral gardens with exciting drift dives and incredible wildlife encounters, like oceanic manta ray flybys and patrolling sharks. This area is a top spot for macro enthusiasts, with up to three species of pygmy seahorses sometimes spotted in a single dive!.
Marine Life: 75% of the world’s coral species and over 2,500 fish species. Look out for barracudas, jacks, batfish, ribbon sweetlips, and larger species like Napoleon wrasse and walking sharks. Dive into the macro world with nudibranchs, pygmy seahorses, and ghost pipefish.
Highlights:
- Tasselled Wobbegong Sharks: Encounter these unique, camouflaged sharks resting on the ocean floor, blending seamlessly with their surroundings.
- Black Manta Rays: Dive with flights of black manta rays as they swoop and soar beneath the water’s surface, creating an unforgettable underwater ballet.
Best time to dive: December - April
RED SEA, EGYPT
Epic dives, Extraordinary discoveries
‘Shock and awe’ is how one of our tribe described their first dive in the Red Sea. Dive into one of the world’s most legendary underwater playgrounds with great visibility and heart-pounding drift dives. You’ll be amazed by the intricate colourful coral formations that decorate the ocean floor, hiding all sorts of treasures just waiting to be discovered.
The Red Sea is a diver’s dream—pristine coral formations, amazing visibility, and heart-pounding drift dives. Known for its incredible marine biodiversity, it’s home to 10% of the world’s fish species, from tiny reef fish to majestic sharks - every dive promises fascinating encounters.
Marine Life: Tiny reef fish, dolphins, majestic sharks, oceanic mantas, diverse coral species
Highlights:
- SS Thistlegorm and Dunraven Wrecks: Delve into these iconic wrecks, teeming with marine life and providing an exciting glimpse into the Red Sea’s maritime history—an underwater museum like no other.
- Shark action: Thrilling encounters with sharks in their natural habitats - oceanic white tips, hammerheads, tigers and threshers.
Best time to dive: March – May and September - November
PALAU, MICRONESIA
The Holy Grail of Scuba Diving
Dive into turquoise waters and discover epic drop-offs, surreal blue holes, and vibrant coral reefs. Explore Jellyfish Lake, German Channel, and WWII wrecks while spotting majestic reef sharks, elusive oceanic whitetips, and iconic hammerheads.
With underwater cliffs, coral walls, blue holes, and cool wrecks, Palau is a diver’s dream. Crystal-clear waters with 30-metre visibility and marine protected areas make it a top spot for conservation and epic dives!”
Marine Life: Reef sharks, rays, giant clams, sea turtles and hammerhead sharks.
Highlights:
- Bumphead Parrotfish and Grouper Spawning: Catch the epic show of thousands of bumphead parrotfish and groupers spawning around the full and new moons.
- Jellyfish Lake: Swim with millions of harmless jellyfish in this unique marine lake for a surreal, enchanting experience.
Best time to dive: November - April
KOMODO, INDONESIA
Dive into Nature’s Wild Playground
Craving a dive into the world’s most stunning coral reefs? Imagine gliding with tons of reef fish, cruising with majestic sharks, and soaring with graceful manta rays.
Welcome to Komodo—where diving dreams become reality. Famous for thrilling drift dives, huge schools of fish, vibrant reefs, and awesome manta ray encounters, Komodo is a diver’s paradise!
Marine Life: Tiny macro critters like nudibranchs and pygmy seahorses, as well as massive pelagics like dogtooth tuna, giant trevally, barracudas, sharks, and manta rays.
Highlights:
- Castle Rock: Dive into a fish frenzy and vibrant coral at this thrilling spot. Watch predators like napoleons, giant trevally, and reef sharks hunt in the strong currents.
- Komodo Dragons: See these dinosaur-like creatures up close, either on land or from your boat—sometimes they’ll even paddle over to say hi from the shore!
Best time to dive: May - October
NUSA PENIDA, BALI, INDONESIA
A diving haven
A must-visit destination for divers seeking both thrill and beauty beneath the surface. Marine life is diverse, ranging from healthy reefs and vibrant fish, macro to pelagics, tiny pygmy seahorses to the incredible Mola Mola! Majestic manta rays also call Nusa Penida home for most of the year, and it’s a paradise for nudibranch enthusiasts!
With excellent visibility, warm waters, and diverse coral fields, divers can effortlessly drift with the currents and immerse themselves in stunning panoramas, from shallow reefs to deep waters. As you explore the coral plateau, expect delightful encounters with sea turtles, tunas, barracudas, and white-tip sharks. The area’s fast, exciting currents bring an abundance of marine life, making it a diver’s haven. Above the water, the islands offer scenic views, beautiful beaches, and towering limestone cliffs.
Marine Life: Grey reef and white tip reef sharks, eagle rays, blue-spotted stingrays, lionfish, octopus, moray eels, scorpion fish, and turtles
Highlights:
- Manta Point: Top dive site famous for close encounters with majestic manta rays which frequent the area for cleaning by smaller fish.
- Crystal Bay:: Known for crystal-clear waters, it’s the prime spot to see the elusive Mola Mola (sunfish) and boasts beautiful coral reefs and diverse marine life.
Best time to dive: July to October.
EAST COAST OF AFRICA
Dive with the Ocean’s Giants
Imagine diving into a realm of oceanic giants, where whale sharks and manta rays glide through plankton-rich waters. Each year, humpback whales steal the spotlight with epic courtship songs and displays. These giants, measuring 12 to 16 metres long and weighing upto 40 tonnes, put on an unforgettable spectacle as they breach and blow.
This spot is also a haven for nesting marine turtles, mantas, dolphins, and humpbacks, all chilling in warm, shallow reefs to give birth to the next generation. It’s a paradise where marine life thrives and you get a front-row seat to the ocean’s coolest show.
Marine Life: Whale sharks, manta rays, humpback whales, nesting marine turtles
Highlights:
- Humpback Whale Breaching: Witness the awe-inspiring acrobatic displays of humpback whales as they breach and blow, propelling themselves out of the water, often twisting and turning, creating an unforgettable spectacle.
- Nesting Marine Turtles: Encounter marine turtles nesting in the warm tropics
Best time to dive: June – November
BANDA SEA, INDONESIA
Hidden gem of the Coral Triangle
Picture this: The Banda Sea, nestled between a patchwork of islands and connected to the vast Pacific Ocean. Black volcanic sand slopes and coral gardens stretching for kilometers create a stunning backdrop for world-class diving. Its remote location makes a liveaboard the ideal way to explore its untouched wonders - a once-in-a-lifetime journey through pristine reefs, seamounts, and valleys, illuminated by glowing plankton blooms.
Dive into Indonesia’s best-kept secret, with powerful currents, remarkable biodiversity and endless visibility. Discover vibrant coral gardens, schools of tropical fish, and passing pelagics.
Marine Life: A coral paradise with 400+ species, teeming with massive schools of fish, majestic pelagics, and fascinating macro creatures. Spot mobula and manta rays, mola molas, and sea snakes.
Highlights:
- Hammerhead Sharks: Get your adrenaline pumping as you spot dozens of hammerheads gliding by. Visit their cleaning stations, where up to 200 of these incredible sharks gather—a rare and breathtaking sight!
- Banded Sea and Olive Sea Snakes: Manuk Island boasts of an extraordinary sea snake aggregation, where divers can plunge into the water alongside hundreds, if not thousands, of banded sea kraits and olive sea snakes.
Best time to dive: February - April and September - November
SIPADAN, MALAYSIA
The Ultimate Dive Paradise
A world-renowned dive destination in the heart of the Coral Triangle. With over 3,000 fish species and hundreds of corals, it’s a diver’s dream come true - a ‘bucket list worthy’ experience.
From steep walls to mysterious caverns, all set against the backdrop of pristine waters, Sipadan gives you the chance to gracefully glide with the gentle current and soak up the beauty underwater.
Marine Life: Green and hawksbill turtles, barracudas, jackfish, reef sharks, mantas and eagle rays, macro life
Highlights:
- Barracuda and Jackfish: Watch massive vortexes of barracuda and jackfish as they create stunning, swirling displays underwater.
- Bumphead Parrotfish: These striking fish, with bulbous heads and parrot-like beaks, often move in large schools, marching in single file and creating an unforgettable underwater display
Best time to dive: March - June, October - December