What is your favorite dive zone?

[adutto]

So guys, which is the preference from all over the globe??
I know this is a broad question, but I believe it will be fun to check the results!!

My Place? Caribbean!!!

 

[BDSC]

I'd have to go along with the Caribbean as well. I pick that area not just because the diving can be good to excellent but it's easy to get to from the States and you'll find just about every price range there. Overall, it's just hard to beat. My favorite place in the Caribbean would be Little Cayman.

 

[CamG]

Greetings Adutto time being it would have to be North Florida for the caves that are there. I have not been the same since I got my Intro to Cave.
When I am diving everywhere else I am always thinking of there!
I have yet to pin point the exact thing that has fired me up but a close second would be Great Lakes wreck diving.
2010 was awesome and had some great wreck dives but cave season 2010/11 blew all diving I have done to date away!

Just magnificent dives in several systems that were very memorable.
One dive we saw hundreds of bugs, crawfish, and catfish not to mention many firsts.
I am smitten for the time being till wreck season starts in April then it will be off to the Great Lakes!

CamG Keep diving....Keep training....Keep learning!

 

[TSandM]

I think North America, West and North America, East would make better sense . . . the West Coast of the US and Canada is my favorite place to dive, because of the diversity and density of life, and the amazing variations in sites, from the kelp forests of Southern California to the hydrocoral in Monterey, to the Giant Pacific Octopuses in Puget Sound and the massive, life-covered, colorful walls in northern BC.

I've been a lot of other places, and no other salt water diving tops the West Coast for me.

 

[Rhone Man]

Odd not to include the Red Sea...

 

[highdesert]

Can't figure your "zones", and I'm not going to vote until you tell me where Indonesia belongs. It's not Oceania, and barely Indian Ocean. I guess I tipped my hand though, huh?

 

[iztok]

I think North America, West and North America, East would make better sense . . . the West Coast of the US and Canada is my favorite place to dive, because of the diversity and density of life, and the amazing variations in sites, from the kelp forests of Southern California to the hydrocoral in Monterey, to the Giant Pacific Octopuses in Puget Sound and the massive, life-covered, colorful walls in northern BC.

I've been a lot of other places, and no other salt water diving tops the West Coast for me.

And I for one envy you! I will make sure to drag my dive gear if I ever have a business trip to Seattle!

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

I think North America, West and North America, East would make better sense . . . the West Coast of the US and Canada is my favorite place to dive, because of the diversity and density of life, and the amazing variations in sites, from the kelp forests of Southern California to the hydrocoral in Monterey, to the Giant Pacific Octopuses in Puget Sound and the massive, life-covered, colorful walls in northern BC.

I've been a lot of other places, and no other salt water diving tops the West Coast for me.

You've been all over the world so when you say North America from BC to Southern California (you left out Norcal but we'll have to change that) I don't just take it with a grain of salt. Your opinions have some gravity to me.
I too said NA, but that's because I almost exclusively dive here and don't get a chance to get out much (yet) so this is all I really know. I've been to Hawaii and GBR which was really nice, but It was all boat charters and expensive to get to.
Here I can shore dive and be amazed on every dive if I want to.

Like Ross said a couple years ago when we had 80-90 foot vis out of Albion, "It doesn't get any better than this".
Maybe not as warm as some places and not as many different pretty fish but way more colorful growy stuff all over everything.

 

[TSandM]

Other places have better viz (let's face it, MOST places have better viz). Other places have more colorful fish. Other places have big coral structures, or barrel sponges . . . but noplace else has the density of invertebrate life, with walls covered with sponges and hydroids and cold water corals, with deep water haboring the unique cloud sponges, with multiple species of crabs and shrimp and echinoderms everywhere . . . and THEN the fish, which can be in large numbers, even if they aren't bright yellow (and I'll put vermilion rockfish up against ANYTHING for brilliant color!)

And I want to dive NorCal -- it's where I grew up. It's just that the logistics of getting there and then maybe getting blown out of diving at all by water conditions have daunted me

 

[DevonDiver]

I've gone for 'North Asia' because I think that would mean Thailand/Malaysia/Borneo/Philippines/Indonesia. I think....

Still trying to guess where the Red Sea would figure (Africa North?) or Dubai/Oman.. (Indian Ocean?)...

Hmmm....