Richelieu Rock is considered Thailand’s top dive site, a submerged pinnacle attracting large pelagic species such as whale sharks and manta rays. The site offers swim-throughs within the pinnacle’s caverns, colorful soft corals, and abundant smaller reef fish. It is ideal for advanced beginners and experienced divers due to depth and variable currents. Whale shark sightings peak from February to April, drawing divers worldwide.

Blue Lagoon in Padang Bay, Bali, is a top beginner dive site perfect for scuba certification and learning dives. It features a shallow coastal reef with a sandy bottom, vibrant coral bommies, and a gentle slope teeming with colorful hard and soft corals. Divers encounter a surprising variety of marine life including small tropical fish, turtles, reef sharks, and occasional sightings of manta rays. The calm conditions and rich biodiversity make it ideal for new divers seeking easy, safe, and scenic underwater experiences.

World-record dive site holding the highest documented fish species count on a single dive with 374 species. Located in Raja Ampat’s nutrient-rich Dampier Strait, this legendary reef showcases exceptional biodiversity including massive schools of fusiliers, barracudas, reef sharks, vibrant hard and soft corals, pygmy seahorses, and large pelagic predators.

Jimmy’s Walls is an exciting dive site located on the remote southeast coast of Lombok, just outside the bay near Jeeva Beloam Beach Camp in the Telong Elong area. The site features a shallow plateau at 8 meters deep where divers can see reef fish and lobsters among soft corals. Further out to sea are two impressive walls separated by a slope, housing crustaceans and nudibranchs. The walls are filled with corals hiding a multitude of critters and nudibranchs, with amazing coral coverage extending from the shallows down the walls. Divers can expect to see schooling bumphead parrotfish, passing eagle rays, mackerel, and trevallies. The site also features a gentle slope with its own mini wall leading up to the shallows, where resident coral catsharks can be found hiding under corals. The eastern wall is relatively unexplored as prevailing currents typically push divers reef right. Jimmy’s Walls connects to two other dive sites: Bommyland (with big seamounts covered in glassfish and lobsters) and Bikini Bottom (an underwater sandy beach great for training). The dive site is accessible to both advanced and beginner divers, offering stunning topography including deep walls and incredible soft coral coverage

Nusa Tiga is a beginner-friendly dive site located on the southeast coast of Lombok, Indonesia. The name refers to three small islands connected by shallow sandbanks and beaches, creating a sheltered diving environment perfect for novice divers. The site features two main dive areas: Nusa Tiga East and Nusa Tiga West. Nusa Tiga East has an extended shallow plateau stretching 400 meters with hard and soft corals. The gentle rubble slope descends to 22 meters and is home to a multitude of special critters and bucket-list creatures including blue ring octopus, poison ocellate octopus, seahorses, pipefish, decorator soft coral crabs, rhinopias, flatworms, nudibranchs, and even frogfish. Divers may also encounter passing mobula rays. Nusa Tiga West’s most northern point features a steep rock face with a huge family of hard tube coral. The area is fishy with amazing soft corals, sand patches, and staghorn corals perfect for critter hunting. This side is mostly protected from currents, making it ideal for beginner divers. During your dive, you can come across semi-healthy coral reefs, lots of different types of critters and fish, and when lucky, run into black-tip reef sharks and sea turtles. The site recently became a favorite among dive guides for its macro diving opportunities and sheltered conditions.

Shark Point is one of Gili Trawangan’s most famous and diverse dive sites, located on the island’s northwestern coast. The site begins with a coral reef plateau at around 10 meters and slopes gently down to deep sandy canyons reaching 30–35 meters (98–115 feet). The topography features coral ridges, valleys, and a few small walls that create an exciting landscape for divers of all levels. True to its name, this is one of the best places around the Gili Islands to see white-tip and black-tip reef sharks, which are commonly found resting under large coral bommies or cruising through the deeper canyons. The site is also renowned for its green sea turtles, often seen resting on sandy ledges or gliding gracefully over the reef—so much so that locals sometimes joke it should be called “Turtle Point.” In addition to sharks and turtles, divers can expect to spot large schools of trevally, bumphead parrotfish (during the full moon), dogtooth tuna, barracuda, and snapper. In the shallows, you’ll find ribbon eels, octopus, and scorpionfish, while massive sea fans, stony corals, and barrel sponges provide plenty of subjects for underwater photography. The site is a drift dive when currents are present, adding excitement to the experience.