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@Volleyballlol...I stand by the examples I provided. Direct experiences are not absolute, they're relative, it can vary by the time of year, the currents, the viz, etc. I'm not saying this is you; when someone says "I dove there, I didn't like it" do you just take their word for it or do you do more research? Thank you for suggesting I travel more, I tell everyone the same thing...No matter how much you travel, you can and should always travel more
Since I guess folks want to go back and forth with posting lists here's another...We can do this for days...lol
Scuba Diving Bucket List: Top Dive Destinations
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You started by posting:
" Palau is a top 3 diving location in the world on nearly every best diving location list. While Tubbataha is considered the best diving in the Philippines, it rarely appears in the top 20 list of the world's best diving locations."
And you follow this by posting the "Top 9" list from a dive shop in Arizona? You definitely are coming across as a noob...
Palau has a number of world class dives. Here's the thing - they were even better 20 years ago. Tubbataha is like Palau was 20+ years ago... the difference? Diver pressure... even with Palau's very effective conservation efforts, ~40,000 divers visit Palau each year, Tubbataha gets <3k divers a year.
LoL (not).
I get it, you can't afford the time (or $ ?) to dive Tubbataha. Don't suggest it's not world class if you haven't even done the research on it.
Palau is a country, Tubbataha is a reef system (within the Philippines)... There are only a couple of dives in Palau that I would rate higher (on average) than Tubbataha (and that's only when you don't find whale sharks at Tubbataha).
