Scuba Diving in Tobago, Caribbean – Tyrell’s Bay, Speyside

Dive Site: Tyrell’s Bay
Location: Speyside
Description: Reef
Depth: 29 metres (95 feet)

Visibility: 15 metres (50 metres)

There is meant to be the wreck of a fishing vessel here which is pretty elusive. On the way back one can come across the reef that is covered in sea fans and nudibranchs.

Scuba Diving in the Maldives – Thinefushi Etere Thila, Dhigurashu Channel, South Ari Atoll

Dive Site: Thinefushi Etere Thila
Location: Dhigurashu Channel, South Ari Atoll, Maldives
Description: Thila dive

Length: 40 x 200 metres (130 – 650 feet)

Depth: 8 – 30 metres (26 – 100 feet)

Visibility: 25 metres (80 feet)

This is an interesting dive on a very large thila with lovely corals and sea fans and overhangs to explore. There are some great pufferfish, including a bright yellow one, groupers, turtle, scribbled filefish, scorpionfish and a mantis shrimp.

Scuba Diving in Cairns (16°47’S 146°10′), Great Barrier Reef, Australia – Cathedrals, Thetford Reef

Dive Site: Cathedrals
Location: Thetford Reef, Cairns (16°47’S 146°10′)
Description: Reef
Depth: 5 – 30 metres (16 – 100 feet)
Visibility: 15 – 20 metres (50 – 65 feet)

A spectacular dive, the coral formations of Cathedrals rise from the seabed, creating deep canyons through the reef. This site is home to many soft and hard corals like staghorn, fan, and plate coral and an abundance of marine life. Look for the giant clams, butterflyfish, damsels and angelfish. Access to the reef is very weather and tidal dependent.

Scuba Diving Southwest Coast of England, UK, Europe – The Vase, Manacles, the Lizard, Cornwall

Dive Site: The Vase
Location: Manacles, the Lizard, Cornwall
Description: Reef
Depth: 10 – 42 metres (33 – 138 feet)
Visibility: 6 metres (20 feet)

The Vase is a very pretty, colourful reef dive. It is part of the Manacles and is a rock that is wedding cake shaped with three tiers at varying depths. The rocks are covered in kelp, sea fans and sponges and beautiful jewel anemones of all colours imaginable. There are sandy gullies and coves within the rocks that provide shelter from the current and are home to numerous sea urchins, starfish, crabs, pollack and wrasse. The current here can be exceptionally strong, especially on springs. Because of the strong currents, it is recommended that divers have some experience as the initial descent can be tricky. The Vase is a five minute rib ride out of Porthkerris Cove.

Scuba Diving Southwest Coast of England, UK, Europe – Galicia wreck

Dive Site: Galicia
Location: Off of the Torbay coast
Description: Wreck
Depth: 18 metres (60 feet)
Visibility: 5 – 6 metres (15 – 20 feet)

This is a very broken up wreck but worth a visit, much to see congers, pollock, white cluster anemones, sea fans, Devonshire cup corals, lobsters, crabs and much more. Viz can be poor but still worth a visit. Teign Dive Centre visit this wreck most weekends.

Scuba Diving in Cuba, Caribbean – El Acuarium, Maria la Gorda, Cuba

Dive Site: El Acuarium (the Aquarium)

Location: Maria la Gorda, Cuba

Description: Reef

Depth: 8 metres max (26 feet)

Visibility: 15 – 20 metres (50 – 65 feet)

A very aptly named site that was a relaxing dive. Because of the patchy reef, the sheer numbers of reef fish and the shallow depth – averaging 3 to 5 metres deep. Amongst the sea fans and sponges, flamingo tongues can be found and arrow crabs on the gorgonians. This dive site is a good opportunity to look at the reef fish in detail, rather than being on the hunt for the bigger stuff and with shoals of sergeant majors, Nassau grouper, chromis, tangs, snapper, goatfish, lobsters, large crabs and trumpetfish.