Rating the World's Best Dives

[Scuba Brad]

After growing up in So. California I didn't think it got any better, then I dove in Hawaii, I realized there was a whole new level of diving out there.........then I dove Fiji......and I found my "new" favoriate place to dive.

So here is the question: In your humble opinion, what is the world's best places to dive. Tell us your favoriate diving story (or stories if needed). What is it that makes your Favoriate Place the Greatest??? What was the world's best dive deal?

Thanks and as always.............Happy Diving

If its ok we'll post the best stories on our web site.

 

[isurus]

I'll open the batting then, shall I? For me Malapascua in the Philippines is the ultimate destination so far. Why? because of the variety it offers. There aren't many sites but when on the same dive site you can see 3m+ thresher sharks, mantas and pygmy sea horses and nudis who needs lots of sites?

First dive of the day before breakfast at sunrise on monad shoal for sharks and mantas.
Back to the island for banana pancakes
2 daytime dives exploring the other sites; deep walls, reefs or the tunnel at Gato Island perhaps?
Late lunch
1 and a half hours shallow muck dive at Lighthouse at dusk for seahorses, octos, mating mandarins etc etc.
Repeat as required.

 

[S. starfish]

Well, I don't have humble opinion about where the best diving is, but I do have one kick *** dive story:

It was a night like any other in vancouver, dark, cold, the coulds were blocking out all the stars and my buddy and I had decided to go for a night dive. Our site of choice, Ansell Point, which despite it's tricky entry is a nice site with lots of life. The only bad thing about ansell is that it has a curse, every time we go dive it something bad happens... and tonight was no exception. Right off the batt it turns out that I've forgotten the outer boots to my drysuit and my buddy has forgotten his long johns. On the way into the water i slipped and fell, jarring my camera enough to turn it off, which I of course didn't notice until a great photo op presented itself at 60ft. Towards the end of our dive we came across a pair of opalescent squid, which was quite exciting. As we floated and watched them swim about there suddenly came the loud sound of an electric pump. I looked over to see that the water around the mouth of a pipe which has been the subject of many jokes was not the same density as the ocean water. My instincts were to get out of there fast. After reaching what I thought was a safe distance I turned around just in time to see my buddy, looking up the up the pipe with his light for god knows what, get blasted in the face with a thick brown jet of turds. Almost immediately he was enveloped in a swirling brown cloud orbited by brown chunks of varyng sizes, all i could see of him was his right arm and legs below the knees. Needless to say I began to laugh uncontrolably, lost all bouyancy control and plummeted to the bottom while attempting to keep my reg in and mask from flooding. On the ride home he kept saying "I don't want to lick my lips, but I can't help it".
I laughed for three days straight.

So far that's my favorite diving story.

 

[Nailer99]

You guys really need to step up to 20th century sewage treatment.

 

[Cacia]

I love the freeway Of Blue Corner action. I just can not get enough of the pelagics sailing by in the current. The big sharks look right at me..and just keep going. Drifting along...then "hooking in" for the show. The best way to explain a Blue Corner dive, is it is like the grand finale on the 4th of July. A big one...then a burst of brightly colored little ones, etc. It really gets you pumped.

(Palau, Micronesia)

(I have very high expectations/hopes for PNG)

 

[Doc]

Copy me when this list is comlete.

I'll be in the pool. Practicing.

 

[Wildcard]

You guys really need to step up to 20th century sewage treatment.

Heck Hawaii just dumped 56 million gallons of untreated sewage in the water becouse the last mayor decided to write a biography and use the sewer repair money to promote it as a travel guide.
The turd story was awsome! LMAO
It's hard to say what is my best dive. I saw a naked frmale swimmer once whe was less than 50 and under three hundred pounds, that was pretty great. Usualy they are over those limits.
Im looking forward to spending months sailing around Micro in a sail boat with a compressor, plenty of computer space for my pics and a well stocked bar. That, Im quite sure will be the best.

 

[usmc4x4]

My vote goes to Okinawa JP, the best shore dives I can imagine and lots of sea life.

 

[Blackwood]

It's really going to depend on what type of diving you want to do.



If your ideal dive site is chock full of vidid soft corals, then Fiji may be your mecca.

Wide variety of life? Great Barrier Reef, maybe.

Caves? Maybe Florida.

Etc.

 

[Michael Schlink]

If you are talking reef diving then Indonesia, it has the greatest marine biodiversity in the world.