Your favorite reef dive sites

Its Live Aboard only. I think it took 14 hours to get there on a 60 foot sailing yacht. We spent a week there. It was like diving in a pool. Vis was pretty much unlimited.
 
I'd have to say Cozumel, specifically Palancar Gardens. It was awesome, I was floored by the huge coral formations lushly coating every possible surface and all the beautiful fish. Coz is my new favourite dive destination.
 
Take Palancar and multiply it by 100 and you have Holmes Reef. It blew my mind the first dive. We sailed past the Great Barrier Reef to get there. It is so pristene, mostly because few dive operators go out that far. There were only 6 divers on our boat and we were the only ones at the reefs.
 
i went to curaco last april instead of bonaire and it was great the only problem was the rest of the island was ugly,but then again we went for diving and not land loveing......i saw huge coral formations and i think the "mushroom forest" was amazing and then a huge eagle ray came over my shoulder and i was so overwhelmed i forgot to take a pic....anyway this may we hed back to hawaii for a couple weeks and although the water isnt as preaty as the carriabean the "atmosphere" is 10xs better .....happy to here you had a great time and hopefully you will get to go to all the sweet spots
 
Prater said:
Take Palancar and multiply it by 100 and you have Holmes Reef. It blew my mind the first dive. We sailed past the Great Barrier Reef to get there. It is so pristene, mostly because few dive operators go out that far. There were only 6 divers on our boat and we were the only ones at the reefs.
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Sounds truly wonderful. My kind of diving.
 
After doing the South Pacific, the Islands of Tahiti, specifically Bora Bora, I have no more interest in diving the Caribbean anymore. And I have about 100 dives in the Caribbean.
I know I am spoiled and I can't afford to go there very often but there is no comparism.
Every dive is full of whales, large sharks, huge manta rays and moorish Idols long nose butterflies.
I can't get enough of it.
 
Raja ampat

Raja ampat

I just returned from a dive trip to Raja Ampat - West Papua, Indonesia. Raja Ampat (also known as R4) has to have the MOST PHENOMENAL reefs left on the planet. Of all my dive trips, which include Palau, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Galapogos, Yap, Sipaden/Borneo, Rangiroa, Sulawesi, etc, etc...nothing compares to the pristine reefs of Raja Ampat. Definitely the last frontier of scuba diving...I highly, highly recommend it...the only down-side is it takes about 2 days to get there: From Los Angeles > Hong Kong < Singapore < Jarkarta < then all the way across Indonesia to West Papua.
Also, I also got to see the "walking" epaulette shark during a night dive. This is one funny but cute looking shark that actually "walks" on its fins rather than swims.
 
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I am with AMW...... lots of effort to go there but it pays. Raja ampat (R4) definitely the last place you want to go....
 
I am still new to diving with > 20 dives but my favorite place that I have been so far was the breakers reef off west palm. I am hoping my first overseas dive will be hunduras then from there I have a HUGE bucket list of dive sites I would love to go to.
 
ive only gone diving here in florida :[
but ive been lots of places here .

however Looe reef in the keys was the best. gone there multiple times
 
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