Venture off of southern Thailand’s peninsula to the famed dive areas in the Andaman Sea. Best accessed by liveaboard, the Similan Islands and Burma Banks offer world-class diving in protected waters where colorful reefs and dramatic underwater landscapes harbor a plethora of marine life including rare and exotic marine life. Ghost pipefish, ribbon eels and nudibranchs are some of the smaller species found throughout the area. Whales sharks have been seen in numbers at Richelieu Rock while leopard sharks can be found at Ko Tachai. The Mergui Archipelago in Myanmar (Burma) to the north of the Andaman Sea has also become a popular area for dive live-aboards to explore.
The Bahamas are well known for the wide variety of diving experiences from big animal encounters including diving with sharks and wild dolphins to all manner of reef, wall and wreck diving.
Honduras is known for its ancient Mayan ceremonial site Copán in addition to the Bay Islands, which are part of a massive barrier reef popular for scuba diving.
In addition to its vast array of reef fish and its wide variety of dive sites, Cenderawasih Bay is most commonly known for its fantastic whale shark diving.
Located north of Malaysian Borneo and Indonesia, the 7,107 islands in the Philippines are amongst the least visited yet most worthy dive destinations in the world.
