The dive of your life?
Where did you make the best scuba dive(s) and why?
My place of election (among not so many…) is Madeira islands (Portugal), more precisely at Garajau marine reserve… Amazing visibility, warm water, friendly fish, always a surprise somehow…
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My best dives by far weren’t SCUBA. It was in 1-2m of crystal clear water over coral reefs in the Ningalu reef national reserve in North-West Australia.
The water was warm so you didn’t need a wetsuit. You only needed snorkel, mask and fins. There was a current of 1-2 knots running parallel the beach, flowing over the reef, so you just swim out at one end and get carried across the reef by the current, then swim in again at the other end, walk back up the beach and do it again.
The diversity and colours were spectacular, as no light or colour is lost at those shallow depths, and no hunting or fishing allowed in the reserve, so fish aren’t scared of you.
This was more than 10 years ago. Don’t know if it is still the same now. The marine reserve was breached by oil exploration and extraction since then. Might be ruined by now… :(
My vote would go to Utila, Honduras as my best dives… in between dives the diveboats searches for whalesharks and usually finds them at least once or twice a week… beautiful corals; deep dives on walls; lots of sealfie; sea mounds; inexpensive to dive there; the bummer is flying there as there are many airports and plane changes… maybe that’s why its so nice to be there… not many people
Warm water destinations are nice for a break, but I wouldn’t want to do them all the time. I’m a Great Lakes area diver, so I’m more into shipwrecks. For me? Tobermory. I go every year. There are three wrecks up there I always take the time to visit. The Arabia, Forest City and the Niagara II. All cold relatively deep dives. The boilers on the Forest are at 150. :)