In-depth guides to the best diving destinations in Southeast Asia.
Our destination guides cover everything you need to plan a dive trip with confidence — dive conditions, key sites, marine life, the best time to visit, and how to get there.
Inside a single island: the world's most productive muck diving in Ambon Bay, and ancient coral walls on outer coasts that most visitors never reach.
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An archipelago of 1,500 islands at the heart of the Coral Triangle, where migration corridors bring mantas, turtles and cetaceans through the Dampier Strait, walking sharks hunt the shallows at night, and a single dive at Cape Kri has logged more fish species than anywhere else on earth.
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From sheer walls above a 4,000-metre abyss to a lake of stingless jellyfish and year-round manta rays — four extraordinary dive experiences within one archipelago.
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A protected coral island in the Sulu Sea with three reasons to visit: year-round reef diving, a sea turtle hatchery, and a seasonal whale shark migration.
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A 15-kilometre volcanic channel in North Sulawesi that defines muck diving — extraordinary biological density built on black sand, holding more rare and bizarre marine life than almost anywhere else on Earth.
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A volcanic pinnacle rising from 600 metres of open ocean, a continental shelf rich in macro life, a sandbar famous for mandarin fish at dusk, and a remote island that draws devil rays from the deep — four entirely different dive environments within reach of the same Sabah basecamp.
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A volcanic island chain within the Coral Triangle where tidal currents funnel through narrow straits to concentrate pelagic life, house reefs hold extraordinary species diversity, and the walking shark — endemic to these islands — prowls the reef at night.
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A remote bay on the southern coast of West Papua where river nutrients feed one of the most productive reef systems in the Coral Triangle, an endemic walking shark prowls the soft coral gardens, and whale sharks gather reliably around traditional fishing platforms.
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From the flooded volcanic crater of the inner park to the pelagic corridors of the continental shelf — the Coral Triangle's most ecologically layered dive destination.
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