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Shore diving, day-boat diving, and multi-day dive packages for all certification levels. Dive Globally is the accessible counterpart to Dive Liveaboards — covering PADI Open Water courses in warm, clear Caribbean waters, guided reef dives in the Maldives and Bali, wreck diving off Malta and the Florida Keys, night dives on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, and drift dives in Palau's Blue Corner. Whether you're earning your first certification or logging your 500th dive, this SI connects you with dive resorts, dive operators, and guided experiences at every major dive destination on Earth.

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TravelWell Expedition Index

Ranked by TravelWell's editorial team on access, uniqueness, ecological integrity and the particular quality of being somewhere that makes you reconsider what travel actually is.

1

Galápagos Islands

Ecuador

Luxury

The most biodiverse marine ecosystem on earth. Hammerhead sharks in schools of hundreds, sea lions that want to play, marine iguanas that ignore you. Snorkelling here changes your relationship with the ocean.

📊 Over 2,900 marine species — 18% found nowhere else on earth
📍 South Pacific
🗓 December–May
2

Palawan

Philippines

Mid Range

El Nido and Coron offer two distinct ocean adventures: pristine reef snorkelling and wreck diving of exceptional quality. The limestone karsts rising from turquoise water make even the surface beautiful.

📊 Coron Bay holds 12 Japanese WWII wrecks within recreational diving depth
📍 Southeast Asia
🗓 November–May
3

Maldives

Maldives

Luxury

The world's finest diving and snorkelling infrastructure. Whale sharks at South Ari Atoll, mantas at Hanifaru Bay, night dives on reef walls that drop to 40 metres of visibility.

📊 Hanifaru Bay sees up to 200 manta rays feeding simultaneously during plankton blooms
📍 Indian Ocean
🗓 November–April
4

Papua New Guinea (Milne Bay & Kimbe Bay)

Papua New Guinea

Luxury

Milne Bay and Kimbe Bay hold coral triangle reefs that marine biologists describe as the most species-rich in the world. Muck diving, pygmy seahorses, and encounters that are genuinely rare.

📊 Kimbe Bay contains over 60% of all known Indo-Pacific coral species
📍 Melanesia
🗓 October–May
5

French Polynesia (Fakarava & Rangiroa)

France (French Polynesia)

Luxury

The two great Tuamotu atolls: Rangiroa for shark passes, Fakarava for wall diving in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. The passes fill with hundreds of grey reef sharks on the outgoing tide.

📊 Fakarava South Pass hosts the world's largest annual shark spawning aggregation
📍 South Pacific
🗓 June–August
6

Komodo

Indonesia

Mid Range

The manta rays at Komodo are not incidental — they come in such numbers that divers hover in the current watching cleaning stations serve fifty at once. The dragon encounters on land are the support act.

📊 Manta Point regularly hosts 30–50 manta rays at a single cleaning station
📍 Southeast Asia
🗓 April–November
7

Norway (Fjords & Arctic)

Norway

Luxury

Sea kayaking through fjords with waterfalls falling from above, whale watching off the Lofoten Islands, and the midnight sun on the ocean at 70° north. Norway is Europe's ocean adventure capital.

📊 Tysfjord hosts the world's largest winter orca congregation — up to 5,000 individual whales
📍 Northern Europe
🗓 May–September (kayak); November–January (whale watching)
8

Hawaii (Big Island)

United States

Mid Range

Manta ray night dives off Kona are one of the great ocean experiences: mantas with ten-foot wingspans feeding on plankton clouds, circling the lights of your torches.

📊 Kona manta night dive has a near-100% manta encounter success rate
📍 North Pacific
🗓 Year-round (diving); December–April (whale watching)
9

Cape Town & Gansbaai

South Africa

Mid Range

Great white shark cage diving at Gansbaai is the world's most reliable encounter. Seal Island at dawn, the shark approaching the cage, the moment of absolute clarity.

📊 Gansbaai's Shark Alley has the highest density of great white sharks in the world
📍 Southern Africa
🗓 May–October
10

New Zealand (Bay of Islands & Kaikōura)

New Zealand

Mid Range

Dolphin swimming, whale watching (sperm whales all year off Kaikōura), and a coastline that rewards kayakers for weeks.

📊 Kaikōura's underwater canyon concentrates sperm whales year-round — the only such location in the world
📍 South Pacific
🗓 October–April
11

Cocos Island

Costa Rica

Luxury

Cocos Island National Park, 36 hours by boat from the mainland, is one of the world's top three dive destinations: hammerheads in massive schools, tiger sharks, whale sharks. Not for the faint-hearted.

📊 Named one of the top three dive destinations on earth by Jacques Cousteau
📍 East Pacific
🗓 June–November
12

Azores

Portugal

Mid Range

Blue whales, sperm whales, and dolphins gather in the deep water off Faial and Pico at concentrations that rival anywhere on earth. The Azores is the world's finest whale watching destination.

📊 9 of the world's 13 great whale species have been recorded in Azorean waters
📍 North Atlantic
🗓 April–October
13

Tofo Beach

Mozambique

Mid Range

The whale shark aggregations off Tofo are the largest consistently reliable gathering of whale sharks in the world. Swimming alongside a 12-metre filter feeder is its own category of experience.

📊 Tofo hosts the largest documented whale shark aggregation in the Indian Ocean
📍 East Africa
🗓 October–March
14

Providenciales, Turks & Caicos

Turks & Caicos Islands

Luxury

The third-largest coral reef system in the world. French Cay draws bull sharks and hammerheads (November–March). Bight Reef is accessible from the beach. Grace Bay Wall drops to 60 feet of visibility.

📊 Grace Bay consistently rated the Caribbean's clearest water — visibility exceeding 60 metres
📍 Caribbean
🗓 November–AprilFull guide →
15

Raja Ampat

Indonesia

Luxury

The coral triangle epicentre. More species per square metre than anywhere else on earth. Walking sharks, pygmy seahorses, and a sense of diving in a place still being catalogued.

📊 75% of all known coral species and 1,500+ fish species recorded in Raja Ampat waters
📍 Southeast Asia
🗓 October–AprilFull guide →
16

Belize (Great Blue Hole)

Belize

Mid Range

The most famous dive site in the Atlantic: a circular sinkhole 300 metres across and 125 metres deep. Stalactites hanging from the ceiling 30 metres down, bull sharks in the blue.

📊 UNESCO World Heritage Site — the Great Blue Hole is 300m wide and 125m deep
📍 Central America / Caribbean
🗓 November–June
17

Tonga

Tonga

Luxury

The only country in the world where you can legally swim with humpback whales. A snorkel, a boat, and a fifteen-metre cetacean two metres away: one of the great wildlife experiences on the planet.

📊 Tonga is one of fewer than five countries globally that permits in-water humpback whale interactions
📍 South Pacific
🗓 July–October
18

Socorro Islands (Revillagigedo)

Mexico

Luxury

Giant pacific mantas, whale sharks, humpback whales, silky sharks — the Socorro Islands are Mexico's Galápagos. Live-aboard only, 24 hours from Cabo.

📊 UNESCO World Heritage Site — the archipelago hosts the largest Pacific manta rays in the world
📍 East Pacific
🗓 November–May
19

British Columbia

Canada

Luxury

Orca watching in the Broughton Archipelago, grizzly bear viewing from kayak in the Bute Inlet, and a coastal wilderness that makes British Columbia North America's finest ocean adventure destination.

📊 Johnstone Strait hosts the world's largest concentration of northern resident killer whales
📍 North Pacific
🗓 June–September
20

Silfra Fissure

Iceland

Mid Range

The only place on earth you can snorkel or dive between two continental tectonic plates — the North American and Eurasian. Visibility of 100+ metres in glacial meltwater. An experience that cannot be found anywhere else.

📊 Horizontal visibility exceeds 100 metres — among the clearest freshwater diving in the world
📍 North Atlantic
🗓 May–September

TravelWell Expedition Index destinations are selected and ranked annually by our editorial team. Rankings reflect access difficulty, ecological uniqueness, operator quality and the irreplaceable quality of the experience. Destinations marked with a guide link have full TravelWell coverage.

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