The sites.
One descent at a time.
A curated index of famous dive sites — wrecks that Cousteau discovered, cleaning stations where manta rays queue, channels where sharks stack in the current.
Cannibal Rock
Cold-water pinnacle in Horseshoe Bay (south Komodo). Perhaps the most colorful soft-coral site in Indonesia. Pygmy seaho...
Cape Kri
## Cape Kri — Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia **Cape Kri** holds a world record. In 2002, American marine biologist G...
Manta Point Komodo
## Manta Point Komodo — Komodo National Park, Indonesia **Manta Point** (also called Karang Makassar) sits on the south...
Manta Sandy
## Manta Sandy — Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia **Manta Sandy** (also known as Manta Ridge) is a shallow cleaning st...
Cathedral Rock
## Cathedral Rock — Ari Atoll, Maldives **Cathedral Rock** (also known as Maaya Thila in some operator literature, thou...
Fesdu Wreck
30-meter cargo boat sunk in 1990 as an artificial reef. Covered in soft corals, glassfish, and batfish. Good for wreck p...
Maya Thila
Submerged pinnacle in North Ari Atoll. Grey reef sharks, white-tip reef sharks, turtles, and large schools of snapper. N...
Dunraven Wreck
## Dunraven Wreck — Sha'ab Mahmoud, Sinai, Egypt The **Dunraven** is a **British steamship** built in Newcastle in 1873...
Shark and Yolanda Reef
## Shark Reef and Yolanda Reef — Ras Mohammed, Egypt At the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, **Ras Mohammed Nationa...
German Channel
Artificial channel dredged by the Germans in the early 1900s to access the lagoon. Now a manta ray cleaning station. Bes...
Ulong Channel
Drift dive through a natural canyon flanked by lettuce coral gardens. Grey reef sharks patrol the exit into the blue. Ju...