[Closed] Scuba divers, where is the best place you have dived?

Kadavu, Fuji.

Edit: Closely followed by Ningaloo Reef, Australia.

Fiji

Muff

I really have dived in Muff (N. Ireland).

The best places I have dived are either the Gili Islands or, in the Philippines;

Tubbataha reef (live aboard)

Malapascua (thresher sharks)

Puerto Galera (several amazing diving spot - probably dived (doved, dove, divin) 20+ times around there)

Apo Island (sea turtles)

Apo reef - live aboard. Another world class location.

Donsol - mantas and a whale shark if you're lucky

Anilao - micro stuff. Pigmy sea horses, nudibranches etc

Coron (I haven't been there, my wife has) is amazing. You fly to Busuanga and go to Coron. Truly world class diving there.

I have dived all over the World.

However, UK diving is greatly underrated.

Scapa Flow and the Farne Islands are 2 of the best places I have dived.

Fish watching - Palau takes some beating

Wrecks - Bikini atoll

Only dived in UK and Red Sea so little to compare against.

<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">However as already said above Farne Islands and St Abb's are superb in the right conditions. Just a bit of a PITA dry suit diving, kit wise. </span>

Best place I have ever dived was a swimming pool somewhere near the NEC in Birmingham.

I'm probably not as experienced as those posting above but you did ask. Wouldn't recommend it as a holiday destination.

Cavern diving in Dos Ojos cenote, Yucutan Peninsula in Mexico. Absolutely unreal. Do it.

Mrs Gti is an experienced diver with over 300 quite necky dives mostly in Scottish waters. She says the Med is dead (and reconfirmed that last month near Port Soller) and says her favourite dive site is a wall off Eileann Donan Castle in Scotland. Not very exotic or foreign though.

Sipadan was awesome when we went 9 or 10 years ago - I assume it still is!

Cenotes in Mexico were amazing in my opinion, but my wife had troubles with her ears because of pressure changes with the haloclines and didn't really get the cave diving bit.

I snorkelled at Tioman Island, it was very nice.

It is already mentioned above, but Puerto Galera in The Philippines would get my vote.   I have been diving there three times and always great diving.   It maybe lacks the giant sized stuff you can see in the Red Sea, but more than makes up for it in the diversity of marine life.

I am diving at The Brothers and Daedalus in the Red Sea in a couple of weeks time, both are fantastic dive sites but only accessible by liveaboard boats - which may not fit in with your plans for a tropical holiday.

Poor Knights

If I had the opportunity I'd do the cavern diving in Dos Ojos cenote, looks fantastic.

Not dived for years (and years), but a couple of dives at Aliwal Shoal off SA were very memorable. Sharks everywhere!

As above, off Durban and the Aliwal Shoal or over the other side (weirdly stayed in a place called Birkenhead) in Gansbaai, not to far from Cape Town too.

I haven’t dived for years (25), but I dived at Sharm, when it was a few shacks and a beach, no hotels.  It was amazing then, it’s probably shit now.

Like blazinsaddles I haven't dived for a long time. The best divng I had was on an isolated reef off Townsville, Queensland culminating in a dive on the Yongala. Next best was Fiji.

Isla de Cozumel in Mexico, I've also dived in Israel, Egypt, SouthAfrica, UK and Australia but Mexico was the best.

Avoid the Great Barrier Reef,

learnt to dive in perhentian island east of the Thai Malaysian border. Was good 15 years back

Ive only dived Greece, Canaries and Red Sea. No guesses on the winner then. Even snorkelling off Dahab was excellent.

Coron in the Philippines was superb, loads of wrecks at shallow depths.

The blue hole in Belize was superb, although that was twenty-odd years ago, no idea if it's still the same.

Undersea seamounts close to Pulau Rinca, Indonesia - rarely dived area back in 2004

Sipadan, Borneo

Surin islands - Mantas (yay!)

Marsa Alam / Elphinstone - Egypt